1928 in Wales

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1928 in Wales
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1928 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1928

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1928 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

12 June – The Welsh National War Memorial is unveiled in Cardiff by The Prince of Wales.
18 June – Amelia Earhart lands near Burry Port, becoming the first woman passenger on a Transatlantic flight.
December – Rapallo House, Llandudno, is handed over to the local council to be used as a museum, as a bequest from Francis Edouard Chardon.
Dr John Williams establishes a hospital at Durtlang in the Lushai Hills (Mizoram) of India.
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales is founded by Clough Williams-Ellis.
The community of Benedictine monks leaves Caldey Island for Prinknash Abbey. They are replaced at Caldey by a Cistercian order.
Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, buys Gwrych Castle for £78,000.
The Grwyne Fawr reservoir is completed in the Brecon Beacons, 16 years after the start of construction (work having been interrupted by World War I).
Formation of the Cardiff Station Orchestra, predecessor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Sir William Llewellyn is the first Welshman to become President of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Eric Gill leaves Capel-y-ffin.

Badminton – The Welsh Badminton Union is formed.
Boxing – Welsh Bantamweight champion Tosh Powell dies after a fight with Billy Housego in Liverpool
Yachting – The North Wales Cruising Club is formed.

1 February – Sam Edwards, physicist
9 February – Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, solicitor and politician (d. 1992)
6 March – Glyn Owen, actor (d. 2004)
27 April – Selwyn Hughes, clergyman and writer (d. 2006)
7 June – Dave Bowen, football player and manager (d. 1995)
9 June – R. Geraint Gruffydd, academic and theologian
26 July – Bernice Rubens, novelist (d. 2004)
12 August – Roy Davies, cricketer
14 August – Sid Judd, Wales international rugby union player (d. 1959)
1 September – Emrys James, actor (d. 1989)
17 September – Dafydd Orwig, educationist (d. 1996)
23 October – Keith Jones, footballer
19 December – Gwyn Rowlands, rugby union international (d. 2010)
date unknown
- Dai Royston Bevan, rugby player (d. 2002)

11 January – Joseph Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, 63
14 April – Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 62
13 May – David John Thomas (Afan), composer and conductor, 47
19 May – Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, heraldry expert (of Welsh descent), 57
23 May – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist, 50
2 June – Tosh Powell, Welsh champion boxer, 20
21 June – Marie Novello, pianist, c. 30
30 August – Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral, 65
3 December – Isaac Hughes (Craigfryn), poet and novelist, 76
13 December – Harry Jarman, Wales and British Lions international rugby union player, 34–35

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