1914 in Wales explained

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

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed^[1]
  • Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans^[4]
  • Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John William Gwynne Hughes Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen^[7]
  • • Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank^[8]
• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams^[9]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes^[10]
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)^[11]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen^[12]

Events

• 14 January - The first trolleybuses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare.
• 23 February - Light cruiser HMS Cordelia is launched at Pembroke Dock.
• 11 March - A Welsh Home Rule Bill is introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire; it fails.^[13]
• 4 April - Ystradfellte Reservoir inaugurated.
• 2 May - South Wales Transport begins operating motorbuses in the Swansea area.
• 4 August - World War I: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire.^[14]
• 6 August - Pembroke Dock-built 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.^[15]
• unknown dates
  • A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon.^[16]
  • 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.^[17]
  • Pen-coed Castle is restored by D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda.^[18]

Arts and literature

• January - The monthly periodical Welsh Outlook is founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.).^[19]

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales - not held^[20]

New books

• Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a Vow^[21]
• Moelwyn - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4^[22]
• Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy^[23]
• T. E. Ellis - Pont Orewyn^[24]

Drama

• T. Gwynn Jones - Caradog yn Rhufain^[25]

Music

• David John de Lloyd - Gwlad fy Nhadau (cantata)
• Ivor Novello - "Keep the Home Fires Burning"^[26]
• William Rhys-Herbert - The Bo'sn's Bride (operetta based on a play by Maude Elizabeth Inch)^[27]

Film

• Welsh-descended Harold Lloyd begins his film career.
• Wild Wales ^[28]

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 targeted 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 win the match, and the Welsh pack are dubbed the 'Terrible Eight' by the press.

Births

• 28 January - Trefor Morgan, financier (d. 1970)
• 11 February - Mervyn Levy, art critic (d. 1996)
• 12 March - Tommy Farr, boxer (d. 1986)^[29]
• 12 March - Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain (d. 1990)
• 21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (d. 2003)^[30]
• 23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (d. 1986)^[31]
• 18 May - Louis Ford, footballer
• 24 May
  • Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, (d. 1996)
  • Harry Parr Davies, composer and songwriter (d. 1955)
• 9 September - Alexander Cordell, novelist (d. 1997)^[32]
• 12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)^[33]
• 22 October - David Tecwyn Lloyd, author (d. 1992)^[34]
• 27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (d. 1953)^[35]
• 21 November - Charles Fisher, poet (d. 2006)^[36]
• 2 December - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player
• 7 December - Bryan Hopkin, economist (d. 2009)^[37]
• date unknown - Norah Isaac, educationalist (died 2003)

Deaths

• 22 February - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 78^[38]
• 4 May - Rowland Griffiths, rugby player, 28 (typhoid)
• 17 May - John L. Griffiths, US lawyer and diplomat of Welsh parentage, 58^[39]
• 16 June - John Hughes (Landore), composer, 42 (cerebral haemorrhage)^{[40] [41]}
• 18 June - Abel Davies, rugby union player, 53?
• 21 June - Morgan Bransby Williams, engineer, 89^[42]
• 23 July - Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41^[43]
• 8 August - Sir Edward Anwyl, academic, 48^[44]
• 22 August (in Swanley) - James Dickson Innes, artist, 27 (tuberculosis)^[45]
• 27 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, 77^[46]
• 17 September - Shadrach Pryce, clergyman and educationalist, 81^[47]
• 2 October - Jack Hughes, footballer, 59^[48]
• 22 October - William Morgan, cricketer, 51/2
• 27 October - Sir T. Marchant Williams, lawyer and author, 68/9^[49]

See also

• 1914 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Rhys . James Ednyfed . Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850-1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales . s-REES-EVA-1850 . National Library of Wales . 2 August 2018 . 1959.
2. Book: Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. 356.
3. Book: National Museum of Wales. Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. 1935. 3.
4. Book: The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. 443.
5. Book: Potter, Matthew . The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present . Routledge . Abingdon, Oxon . 2016 . 9781351545471 . 149.
6. Davies . Sir William Llewelyn . s-WILL-BRO-1800 . Williams family, of Bron Eryri, later called Castell Deudraeth, Meirionnydd. 30 January 2020.
7. Book: Cyril James Oswald Evans. Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography. W. Lewis (printers). 1953. 190.
8. Book: Whitaker's Almanack. Joseph Whitaker. Whitaker's Almanack. 1913. 847.
9. Book: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1925. 2437.
10. s-HUGH-JOS-1807 . Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop . William Thomas . Havard . William Havard . 26 October 2021.
11. [Who's Who (UK)#Who Was Who|''Who was Who 1897–2007'']
12. s-OWEN-JOH-1854. Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 1959. 19 March 2022.
13. Book: John Kendle. Ireland and the Federal Solution: The Debate over the United Kingdom Constitution, 1870-1920. 1 January 1989. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 978-0-7735-6186-1. 273.
14. Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 0-14-102715-0. 2006.
15. Book: L. Phillips. Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History. 3 February 2014. History Press. 978-0-7509-5520-1. 394.
16. Book: Great Britain. Department of Education and Science. Education: Being the Report of the Department of Education and Science. 1958. H.M. Stationery Office. 125.
17. s2-THOM-JAM-1867. Thomas, Sir William James (1867-1945), Baronet, coalowner, philanthropist. Owen Picton Davies. 27 November 2018.
18. Book: Academi Gymreig. The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. 2008. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-1953-6. 512.
19. Web site: Welsh outlook a monthly journal. National Library of Wales. 27 November 2018.
20. Web site: Winners of the Chair. National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
21. Book: Rhoda Broughton. Concerning a Vow. 1914. Tauchnitz.
22. Book: Meic Stephens. The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales. 1986. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-211586-7. 269.
23. Book: A Bibliography of Philosophy: A Partial List of Holdings in the USMA Library. 1972. U. S. Military Academy. 40.
24. s2-SCOT-EVE-1880. Scott-Ellis, Thomas Evelyn (1880 - 1946). yes. 16 June 2014.
25. Book: Y Gymraes: cyhoeddiad misol darluniadol i ferched Cymru. 1913. E.W. Evans..
26. home fire burningBook: Fuld, James J.. The book of world-famous music: classical, popular and folk. 316. 2000. 3 March 2010. Courier Dover Publications. 978-0-486-41475-1.
27. Book: Frances Diodato Bzowski. American women playwrights, 1900-1930: a checklist. 1992. Greenwood Press. 978-0-313-24238-0. 189.
28. Web site: Welsh people and culture in film. 27 October 2008. BBC Wales Arts. 12 December 2020.
29. Book: Patricia Burgess. Roland Turner. The Annual Obituary. 1989. St James Press. 164.
30. Book: Meic Stephens. Welsh Lives - Gone but Not Forgotten. 20 September 2012. Y Lolfa. 978-1-84771-605-7. 41.
31. Book: Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. 25 December 2015. Springer. 978-1-349-81366-7. 427.
32. Book: R. Reginald. Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2. 1 September 2010. Wildside Press LLC. 978-0-941028-77-6. 864.
33. Book: Ann Palmer. Letters to the Dead: Things I Wish I'd Said. 20 June 2014. CCB Publishing. 978-1-77143-126-2. 169.
34. s8-LLOY-TEC-1914. Lloyd, David Tecwyn (1914-1992), literary critic, author, educationalist. Ieuan Parri. yes. 9 October 2019.
35. Book: James A. Davies. Dylan Thomas’s Swansea, Gower and Laugharne. 15 February 2014. University of Wales Press. 978-1-78316-133-1. 15.
36. Web site: Charles Fisher. 6 February 2006. The Independent. 3 April 2022.
37. Book: The International Who's Who 1992-93. 1 August 1992. Taylor & Francis. 978-0-946653-84-3. 737.
38. Wimborne, Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron . 32 . 1021.
39. News: Griffiths Funeral Monday; Services for Consul General to be Held in First Presbyterian Church . . May 30, 1914 . 2011-03-11 .
40. Web site: John Hughes. The Calon Lan Society. 9 October 2019.
41. Book: Meic Stephens. Meic Stephens. The new companion to the literature of Wales. 23 September 1998. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-1383-1. 82.
42. Web site: Morgan Bransby Williams - 1914 Obituary. Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. 27 November 2018.
43. s-EVAN-HAR-1873. Evans, Harry (1873-1914), musician. Robert David Griffith. yes. 9 October 2019.
44. s-ANWY-EDW-1866. Anwyl, Sir Edward (1866-1914), Celtic scholar. Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams. yes. 11 June 2019.
45. Book: Art and Artists. 1977. Hansom Books. 34.
46. s-LEWI-THO-1837. Lewis, Sir William Thomas (1837-1914), first Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, coal magnate. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 11 June 2019.
47. s-PRYC-JOH-1828. Pryce, John (1828-1903), dean of Bangor. yes. 11 June 2019.
48. Book: Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players . Davies . Gareth . Garland . Ian . 1991. Bridge Books . 1-872424-11-2. 90.
49. s-WILL-MAR-1845. Williams, Sir Thomas Marchant (1845-1914), barrister and writer. Edward Morgan Humphreys. yes. 9 October 2019.