1923 in Wales

1923 in Wales

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1923 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland

Other events of 1923

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1923 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archbishop of Wales - Alfred George Edwards
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Cadfan

Events

• 7 April - By-election at Anglesey ends in victory for Robert Thomas.
• 26 April - In a mining accident at Trimsaran, nine miners are killed.
• Creation of the new Anglican Diocese of Swansea & Brecon. Edward Bevan becomes its first Bishop.
• Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent becomes a member of the Council of India.

Arts and literature

• 6 June - Charles Langbridge Morgan marries Hilda Vaughan.
• W. H. Davies marries Helen Payne, an ex-prostitute thirty years his junior.
• W. S. Gwynn Williams becomes Director of Music for the Gorsedd of Bards.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Mold, Flintshire)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - D. Cledlyn Davies
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans Jones

New books

• Edward Tegla Davies - Gŵr Pen y Bryn
• Thomas Richards - Religious Developments in Wales (1654–1662)

Film

• 14 September - G.A. Cheetham, son of cinema pioneer Arthur Cheetham, films the unveiling of the war memorial at Aberystwyth and other scenes of the life of the town, to be shown in local cinemas.
• Ivor Novello appears in The Man Without Desire, The White Rose and Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Broadcasting

• 13 February - The British Broadcasting Company makes its first broadcast in Wales, from "Station 5WA" in Cardiff. Mostyn Thomas opens the programme, singing Dafydd y Garreg Wen and Gwilym Davies becomes the first speaker to broadcast in the Welsh language.

Sport

• Boxing
  • 18 June – Jimmy Wilde loses his world flyweight title and retires from the sport.

Births

• 22 February – Bleddyn Williams, rugby player
• 19 August – Dill Jones, pianist (died 1984).
• 3 September – Robin Williams, broadcaster and essayist (died 2003)
• 22 September – Dannie Abse, poet
• 1 October – Trevor Ford, footballer (died 2003)
• 5 October – Glynis Johns, actress
• 6 November – Donald Houston, actor
• 13 November – Alf Sherwood, footballer
• 19 December – Elwyn Jones, television writer

Deaths

• 22 February – John Jenkins, Prime Minister of South Australia, 71
• 27 May – Charles Lewis, rugby player, 70
• 18 July – Thomas Arthur Lewis, teacher, lawyer and politician, 41
• 12 October – John Cadvan Davies, poet and hymn-writer, 77
• date unknown
  • J. Brynach Davies, poet
  • Evan Rees (Dyfed), poet
  • General Owen Thomas, politician