This article is about the particular significance of the year 1922 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Archbishop of Wales â Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales â Dyfed
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â John Ernest Greaves
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Herbert Davies-Evans
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â John Hinds
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Henry Gladstone, later Baron Gladstone
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â Arthur Walsh, 3rd Baron Ormathwaite (until 20 January); Charles Coltman-Rogers (from 20 January)
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Film
Broadcasting
- Preparations begin for the start of radio broadcasting by the BBC in Cardiff; the first broadcast will take place in February 1923.
Sport
Births
- 2 January â D. Geraint James, physician (d. 2010)
- 15 January â Emlyn Davies, rugby international (d. 2016)
- 16 February â Sir Geraint Evans, opera singer (d. 1992)
- 14 March â Colin Fletcher, pioneering backpacker and writer (d. 2007)
- 24 March â Arthur "Waring" Bowen, solicitor and charity worker
- 16 April
- (in London) Kingsley Amis, novelist associated with Swansea (d. 1995)
- Rees Stephens, Welsh international rugby union captain (d. 1998)
- 21 April â Allan Watkins, England Test cricketer (d. 2011)
- 7 May
- Gwyn Hughes, footballer (d. 1999)
- Monica Jones, lecturer in English literature, a lover of Philip Larkin (d. 2001)
- 11 June â Tom Cole, Welsh-American racing driver (d. 1953)
- 26 June â William Griffiths, hockey player (d. 2010)
- 4 July (in the United States) â Phyllis Kinney, expert on Welsh folk music
- 18 July
- Ray Cale, dual code international rugby player (d. 2006)
- Ray Lambert, footballer (d. 2009)
- 20 July â Ruth Bidgood (née Jones), poet (d. 2022)
- 10 August â Bert Evans, Welsh-American footballer (d. 2008)
- 12 September â Arthur Daniels, rugby league player (d. 2001)
- 3 October â Hugh James, aviator (d. 2015)
- 31 October â Talfryn Thomas, comedy actor (d. 1982)
- 18 December â Maldwyn Jones, historian (d. 2007)
- 22 December â Eryl Davies, teacher and school inspector (d. 1982)
- date unknown
- Thomas Nathaniel Davies, painter (d. 1996)
- Denis Griffiths, tenor (d. 2001)
Deaths
- 29 January â George Owen, footballer, 56
- 4 February â Sir Henry Jones, philosopher, 69
- 25 February â Mary Jane Evans, teacher, preacher and actress, 34
- 9 April â Constance Jones, English-born philosopher and educator, 74
- 22 April â W. Llewelyn Williams, lawyer and historian, 55
- 3 May â Dick Kedzlie, Wales international rugby player, 59
- 14 May â William Abraham ("Mabon"), politician, 79
- 16 May â Thomas Powel, Celtic scholar, 76/77
- 2 June â Sir John David Rees, politician, 67
- 20 June â John Williams, politician, 60
- 8 July â James Bevan Edwards, army officer and politician, 86
- 6 August â Thomas Pryce-Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 60
- 12 August â Arthur Griffith, Irish-born nationalist politician of Welsh descent, 50
- 22 August â John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster, 33
- 12 September â George Rowles, Wales international rugby player, 56
- 28 September â Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain, 65
- 21 December â William Morris (Rhosynnog), Baptist minister, 79
- 25 December â Percy Jones, former world boxing champion, 29
- 27 December â Thomas William Rhys Davids, Pali scholar, 79
See also
References