1914 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1914 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward, son of George V
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed

Events

• 14 January - The first trolleybuses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare.
• 23 February - Light cruiser HMS Cordelia is launched at Pembroke Dock.
• 4 August - World War I: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire.^[1]
• 6 August - Pembroke Dock-built HMS Amphion (1911) becomes the first British naval casualty of the war when she strikes mines off the east coast.
• 18 September - Welsh Church Act, disestablishing the Church in Wales, receives Royal Assent, but simultaneously with the Suspensory Act which delays its coming into effect.
• 21 September - William Charles Fuller wins the Victoria Cross for carrying a wounded officer to safety under fire.
• 14 November - Light cruiser HMS Carysfort is launched at Pembroke Dock.
• A Welsh Home Rule Bill, introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire, fails.
• A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon.
• The hundredth intermediate school in Wales is established under the Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act 1889.
• William James Thomas, industrialist and philanthropist, is knighted.

Arts and literature

• The monthly periodical Welsh Outlook is founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.).

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales - not held

New books

• Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a Vow
• Moelwyn - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4
• Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
• T. E. Ellis - Pont Orewyn^[2]

Drama

• T. Gwynn Jones - Caradog yn Rhufain

Music

• David John de Lloyd - Gwlad fy Nhadau (cantata)

Film

• Welsh-descended Harold Lloyd begins his film career.
• Wild Wales

Sport

• Boxing
  • 26 January: Percy Jones wins the British, European and World (disputed) featherweight titles.
  • 30 March: Jimmy Wilde wins the European flyweight title.
  • 7 July: Freddie Welsh wins the World lightweight title
  • 14 December: Johnny Basham wins the British welterweight title.

• Rugby union
  • 14 March: After Percy Jones is target by Irish players during the 1914 Five Nations Championship, Harry Uzzell leads his men in retaliation in a game notorious for its on the field violence. Wales won the match, and the Welsh pack were dubbed the 'Terrible Eight' by the press.

Births

• 28 January - Trefor Morgan, financier (d. 1970)
• 12 March - Tommy Farr, boxer (d. 1986)
• 12 March - Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain (d. 1990)
• 21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (d. 2003)
• 23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (d. 1986)
• 24 May
  • Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, (d. 1996)
  • Harry Parr Davies, composer and songwriter (d. 1955)
• 9 September - Alexander Cordell, novelist (d. 1997)
• 12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)
• 22 October - David Tecwyn Lloyd, author (d. 1992)
• 27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (d. 1953)
• 21 November - Charles Fisher, poet (d. 2006)
• 2 December - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player
• 7 December - Bryan Hopkin, economist (d. 2009)

Deaths

• 22 February - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 78
• 4 May - Rowland Griffiths, rugby player, 28
• 18 June - Abel Davies, rugby union player
• 21 June - Morgan Bransby Williams, engineer
• 23 July - Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41
• 8 August - Sir Edward Anwyl, academic, 48
• 22 August (in Swanley) - James Dickson Innes, artist, 27 (tuberculosis)
• 27 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, 77
• 17 September - Shadrach Pryce, clergyman and educationalist
• 2 October - Jack Hughes, footballer, 59
• 27 October - Sir T. Marchant Williams, lawyer and author

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