1928 in Wales

1928 in Wales
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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 in 1929.
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.

October - Eric Gill and members of his artistic community leave Capel-y-ffin for Speen, Buckinghamshire.
Sir William Llewellyn is the first Welshman to become President of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Badminton – The Welsh Badminton Union is formed.
Boxing – Welsh Bantamweight champion Tosh Powell dies after a fight with Billy Housego in Liverpool.
Football - The 1928 Welsh Cup Final is contested by Bangor and Cardiff City at Farrar Road Stadium, Bangor, and ends in a 2–0 victory for Cardiff.^[1]

1 February – Sam Edwards, physicist
8 February - Osian Ellis, harpist
9 February – Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, solicitor and politician (d. 1992)
6 March – Glyn Owen, actor (d. 2004)
9 April - Albert Gubay, businessman
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
20 November - John Disley, athlete
19 December – Gwyn Rowlands, rugby union international (d. 2010)
date unknown - Sir Raymond Powell, politician (d. 2002)
- Dai Royston Bevan, rugby player (d. 2002)
- Hubert Rees, actor (d. 2009)

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
23 July - John Hinds, businessman and politician, 65
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
29 December - George Boots, rugby player, 54^[2]

↑ Cardiff City - Historical Football Kits
↑ Parry-Jones, David (1999). Prince Gwyn, Gwyn Nicholls and the First Golden Era of Welsh Rugby. Bridgend: seren. ISBN 1-85411-262-7.