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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1932 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - The Prince Edward
- Princess of Wales – vacant
- Archbishop of Wales – Alfred Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
Events
- 25 January - Leif Jones is created Baron Rhayader.
- 16 September - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" of the giant Hollywood sign.
- Plaid Cymru adopts self-government as its official policy.
- The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl, is built.
- Hilary Marquand’s economic surveys of South Wales highlight the depressed conditions in the area during the Great Depression in the United Kingdom.
Arts and literature
- Frank Brangwyn completes the Empire Panels.
- Welsh-language newspaper Y Cymro is launched.
- The Davies sisters launch the Gregynog Festival, which lasts until 1938.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Port Talbot)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - D. J. Davies
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Thomas Eurig Davies
New books
- Richard Ithamar Aaron - Hanes Athroniaeth
- T. H. Parry-Williams - Canu Rhydd Cynnar
- Howard Spring - Darkie and Co.
- David Walters (Eurof) - Pwerau'r Deufyd
- Francis Brett Young - The House Under the Water
Music
- W. Bradwen - Mab yr ystorm
- Grace Williams
- Suite for orchestra
- Two Psalms for contralto, harp and strings[1]
Film
- 13 June - Port Talbot-born Peg Entwistle signs a contract with RKO.
- Edmund Gwenn appears in Tell Me Tonight, Money for Nothing, Condemned to Death, Love on Wheels, Lord Babs and Frail Women.
Broadcasting
Sport
- Boxing
- 3 February - Jack Petersen beats Dick Power to take the Welsh heavyweight title.
- 23 May - Jack Petersen wins the British light-heavyweight title.
- 12 July - Jack Petersen wins the British heavyweight title.
Births
- 20 March - Garfield Owen, Wales dual-code rugby international
- 6 April - Leon Eagles, actor
- 28 May - John Savage, future prime minister of Nova Scotia
- 30 May - Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, politician
- 30 June - Derek Tapscott, footballer (d. 2008)
- 12 August – Gwilym Jenkins, statistician and systems engineer (d. 1982)
- 31 August - Colin Gale, footballer (d. 2008)
- 9 September - Alice Thomas Ellis, novelist
- 8 October - Ray Reardon, snooker player
- 18 October - Don Devereux, dual-code rugby player (died 1995)
- 24 October - Allan Rogers, politician
- 16 November - Onllwyn Brace, Wales rugby union captain
- 21 November - Alvan Williams, footballer (d.2003)
- 7 December - Elystan Morgan, politician
- 15 December - John Meurig Thomas, chemist
- date unknown
- Richard Cyril Hughes, historian
Deaths
- 27 February - Dicky Owen, Wales rugby union international (born 1876)
- 3 March - Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist, 80
- 10 April - Gwyn Thomas, cricketer, 41
- 14 May - John Hughes, composer of Cwm Rhondda[2]
- 27 May - M. C. Jones, racing driver, 37 (killed during qualification for Indianapolis 500)
- 20 July - Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion, 41
- 10 July - Martha Hughes Cannon, Welsh-born US physician, politician and campaigner, 75
- 23 July - Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner, 48
- 30 August - Conway Rees, Wales rugby union international, 62
- 11 September - Aneurin Rees Wales rugby union international, 74
- 16 September - Peg Entwistle, actress
- 26 October - William Howell Davies, merchant and politician, 80
- 25 November - John Williams, recipient of the Victoria Cross
References
- ↑ John Evans, Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 (Faber & Faber, 2009), p 174
- ↑ Rhondda Cynon Taf: History of Pontypridd. Accessed 14 June 2014