1922 in Wales

1922 in Wales
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Other events of 1922

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1922 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

1 January - The Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway is incorporated into the Great Western Railway.
February - The last fighting ship completes fitting out and commissioning at Pembroke Dock, Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Capetown.
26 April - The last ship is launched from Pembroke Dock, Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Oleander.
11 October - Leila Megane makes the first complete recording of Sir Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures, with Elgar himself conducting.
18 October - In a by-election at Newport, caused by the death of Liberal MP Lewis Haslam, Reginald Clarry wins the seat for the Conservatives.
22 October - David Lloyd George is replaced by Bonar Law as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after the Conservatives leave the Coalition Government.
The Welsh youth organisation Urdd Gobaith Cymru is founded by Ifan ab Owen Edwards.

Wilfred Mitford Davies sets up the first Welsh children's book publisher, Cymru'r Plant.
The Gregynog Press is established by the sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies (granddaughters of Victorian industrialist David Davies) of Gregynog Hall.^[1]
The University of Wales Press is established.

D. Ambrose Jones - Llenyddiaeth a Llenorion Cymreig y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg
Henry Jones - A Faith that Enquires
Arthur Machen - The Secret Glory

The Last King of Wales, starring Charles Ashton
Lyn Harding makes an early screen appearance in When Knighthood Was in Flower.
Ivor Novello stars in The Bohemian Girl

Rugby union - Wales wins the Five Nations championship.
Football (soccer)
- Cardiff City FC win the Welsh Cup
- Porth F.C. win the Welsh Football League
- Garden Village Football Club is formed.

16 February – Sir Geraint Evans, opera singer (d. 1992)
16 April
- Kingsley Amis, novelist associated with Swansea (d. 1995)
- Rees Stephens, Welsh international rugby union captain (d. 1998)
21 April – Allan Watkins, England Test cricketer (d. 2011)
18 July – Ray Cale, dual code international rugby player (d. 2006)
20 July – Ruth Bidgood (née Jones), poet
31 October – Talfryn Thomas, comedy actor (d. 1982)

29 January – George Owen, footballer, 56
4 February – Sir Henry Jones, philosopher, 69
22 April – W. Llewelyn Williams, lawyer and historian, 55
3 May – Dick Kedzlie, Wales international rugby player, 59
14 May – William Abraham ("Mabon"), politician, 79
16 May – Thomas Powel, Celtic scholar, 76/77
2 June – Sir John David Rees, politician, 67
18 June – John Ward, archaeologist, National Museum of Wales, 65/66
20 June – John Williams, politician, 60
8 July – James Bevan Edwards, army officer and politician, 86
6 August – Thomas Pryce-Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 60
12 August – Arthur Griffith, Irish-born nationalist politician of Welsh descent, 50
22 August – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster, 33
12 September – George Rowles, Wales international rugby player, 55/56
28 September – Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain, 65
25 December – Percy Jones, former world boxing champion, 29
27 December – Thomas William Rhys Davids, Pali scholar, 79

↑ Harrop, Dorothy A. (1980). A History of the Gregynog Press. Pinner: Private Libraries Association. ISBN 978-0-900002-63-2.