1931 in Wales

← 1930 1929 1928 1927 1926 1931 in Wales → 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1931 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1931 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Archbishop of Wales – Alfred Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Pedrog

Events

• 3 March - Bertrand Russell succeeds to his father's earldom.
• 14 April - A meteorite falls in Pontllynfi, near Caernarfon.
• The Welsh School of Medicine is founded at Cardiff, later becoming the University of Wales College of Medicine.
• Nancy Astor addresses a meeting in Cardiff on the subject of recruiting women into the police.
• Felinfoel Brewery becomes the first brewery outside the United States to produce commercially sold beer in cans.

Arts and literature

• Edward Tegla Davies becomes editor of Yr Efrydydd.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bangor)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David James Jones
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans Jones

New books

• Eliot Crawshay-Williams - Night in the Hotel
• John Jenkins (Gwili) - Hanfod Duw a Pherson Crist
• Moelona - Beryl
• Bertrand Russell - The Scientific Outlook
• Jennie Thomas – Llyfr Mawr y Plant (first appearance of Wil Cwac Cwac)

Film

• Ray Milland appears in The Bachelor Father, Strangers May Kiss, Just a Gigolo, Son of India, Bought, Ambassador Bill, and Blonde Crazy.

Broadcasting

• The BBC's Daventry radio transmitter increases its Welsh language output from a monthly to a fortnightly "Welsh interest" programme and includes a regular religious service broadcast entirely in Welsh.

Sport

• Rugby union
• Wales, under the captaincy of Jack Bassett, win the Five Nations Championship.
  • 7 February Wales beat Scotland 13–8 at the Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff.

Births

• 10 January - Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, politician
• 2 February - Glynn Edwards, actor
• 4 March - Gwilym Prichard, landscape painter (d. 2015)
• 20 March - Orig Williams, wrestler and TV presenter
• 22 March - Leslie Thomas, novelist (d. 2014)
• 11 April - Lewis Jones, rugby player
• 29 May – Christopher Evans, computer scientist (d. 1979)
• 23 June - Brian Sparks, Wales international rugby union player
• 2 July - Frank Williams, actor
• 13 July - Philip Jones, businessman and civil servant (d. 2000)
• 1 September - Mair Wynn Hughes, children's author
• 25 September - Dafydd Rowlands, Eisteddfod-winning author (d. 2001)
• 5 November - John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, politician
• 27 November - Gareth Griffiths, Wales and British Lions rugby union player
• 27 December - John Charles, footballer (d. 2004)

Deaths

• 22 February - Sir Hugh Vincent, solicitor and Wales international rugby player, 68
• 3 March - Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, 65
• 13 March - Vernon Hartshorn MP, miners' leader and politician
• 13 March - Edward Thomas John, politician
• 14 April - John Bryn Roberts, lawyer and politician, 88
• 19 April - Evan Richards, Wales international rugby player, 69
• 12 May - Beddoe Rees, industrialist and politician
• 22 June - Sir Henry Reichel, academic
• 28 July - John Neale Dalton, chaplain and tutor to the British royal family, settled in South Wales, 91
• 7 October - William John Griffith, author
• 26 October - Edward Perkins Alexander, Wales rugby international, 68
• 2 November - Arthur Cook, miners' leader, 47
• 27 December - Alfred Perceval Graves, Irish author settled in Wales, 85