1922 in Wales

Welsh language

Music

• 10 October - Contralto Leila Megane makes the first recording of Sir Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures, with Elgar himself conducting.
• Walford Davies is knighted for his services to music.

Film

• The Last King of Wales, starring Charles Ashton
• Lyn Harding makes an early screen appearance in When Knighthood Was in Flower.
• Ivor Novello stars in The Bohemian Girl

Broadcasting

• Preparations begin for the start of radio broadcasting by the BBC in Cardiff; the first broadcast will take place in February 1923.

Sport

• Rugby union - Wales wins the Five Nations championship.
• Football (soccer)
• Cardiff City FC win the Welsh Cup
• Porth F.C. win the Welsh Football League, but are suspended from the SWMFA for failing to pay their debts.
• Garden Village Football Club is formed.

Births

• 2 January – D. Geraint James, physician (d. 2010)
• 15 January – Emlyn Davies, rugby international (d. 2016)
• 16 February – Sir Geraint Evans, opera singer (d. 1992)
• 14 March – Colin Fletcher, pioneering backpacker and writer (d. 2007)
• 24 March – 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 – 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 – Tom Cole, Welsh-American racing driver (d. 1953)
• 26 June – William Griffiths, hockey player (d. 2010)
• 4 July (in the United States) – 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 – Ruth Bidgood (née Jones), poet (d. 2022)
• 10 August – Bert Evans, Welsh-American footballer (d. 2008)
• 12 September – Arthur Daniels, rugby league player (d. 2001)
• 3 October – Hugh James, aviator (d. 2015)
• 31 October – Talfryn Thomas, comedy actor (d. 1982)
• 18 December – Maldwyn Jones, historian (d. 2007)
• 22 December – Eryl Davies, teacher and school inspector (d. 1982)
• date unknown
• Thomas Nathaniel Davies, painter (d. 1996)
• Denis Griffiths, tenor (d. 2001)

Deaths

• 29 January – George Owen, footballer, 56
• 4 February – Sir Henry Jones, philosopher, 69
• 25 February – Mary Jane Evans, teacher, preacher and actress, 34
• 9 April – Constance Jones, English-born philosopher and educator, 74
• 22 April – W. Llewelyn Williams, lawyer and historian, 55
• 3 May – Dick Kedzlie, Wales international rugby player, 59
• 14 May – William Abraham ("Mabon"), politician, 79
• 16 May – Thomas Powel, Celtic scholar, 76/77
• 2 June – Sir John David Rees, politician, 67
• 20 June – John Williams, politician, 60
• 8 July – James Bevan Edwards, army officer and politician, 86
• 6 August – Thomas Pryce-Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 60
• 12 August – Arthur Griffith, Irish-born nationalist politician of Welsh descent, 50
• 22 August – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster, 33
• 12 September – George Rowles, Wales international rugby player, 56
• 28 September – Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain, 65
• 21 December – William Morris (Rhosynnog), Baptist minister, 79
• 25 December – Percy Jones, former world boxing champion, 29
• 27 December – Thomas William Rhys Davids, Pali scholar, 79

See also

• 1922 in Northern Ireland

References