1914 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1914 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - Edward
Princess of Wales - vacant
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed

Events

14 January - The first trolleybuses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare.
23 February - Light cruiser HMS Cordelia is launched at Pembroke Dock.
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.[1]
6 August - Pembroke Dock-built HMS Amphion (1911) 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.
A Welsh Home Rule Bill, introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire, fails.
A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon.
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.[2]

Arts and literature

January - The monthly periodical Welsh Outlook is founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.).[3]

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales - not held[4]

New books

Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a Vow
Moelwyn - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4
Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
T. E. Ellis - Pont Orewyn[5]

Drama

T. Gwynn Jones - Caradog yn Rhufain[6]

Music

David John de Lloyd - Gwlad fy Nhadau (cantata)
Ivor Novello - "Keep the Home Fires Burning"
William Rhys-Herbert - The Bo'sn's Bride (operetta based on a play by Maude Elizabeth Inch)[7]

Film

Welsh-descended Harold Lloyd begins his film career.
Wild Wales

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)[8]
12 March - Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain (d. 1990)
21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (d. 2003)[9]
23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (d. 1986)[10]
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)[11]
12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)[12]
22 October - David Tecwyn Lloyd, author (d. 1992)[13]
27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (d. 1953)[14]
21 November - Charles Fisher, poet (d. 2006)
2 December - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player
7 December - Bryan Hopkin, economist (d. 2009)[15]
date unknown - Norah Isaac, educationalist (died 2003)

Deaths

22 February - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 78[16]
4 May - Rowland Griffiths, rugby player, 28 (typhoid)
16 June - John Hughes (Landore), composer, 42 (cerebral haemorrhage)[17][18]
18 June - Abel Davies, rugby union player, 53?
21 June - Morgan Bransby Williams, engineer, 89[19]
23 July - Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41[20]
8 August - Sir Edward Anwyl, academic, 48[21]
22 August (in Swanley) - James Dickson Innes, artist, 27 (tuberculosis)[22]
27 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, 77[23]
17 September - Shadrach Pryce, clergyman and educationalist, 81[24]
2 October - Jack Hughes, footballer, 59
22 October - William Morgan, cricketer, 51/2
27 October - Sir T. Marchant Williams, lawyer and author, 68/9[25]

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References

Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
Owen Picton Davies. "Thomas, Sir William James (1867-1945), Baronet, coalowner, philanthropist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
"Welsh outlook a monthly journal". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
"Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 16 June 2014
Y Gymraes: cyhoeddiad misol darluniadol i ferched Cymru. E.W. Evans. 1913.
Frances Diodato Bzowski (1992). American women playwrights, 1900-1930: a checklist. Greenwood Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-313-24238-0.
Patricia Burgess; Roland Turner (1989). The Annual Obituary. St James Press. p. 164.
Meic Stephens (20 September 2012). Welsh Lives - Gone but Not Forgotten. Y Lolfa. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-84771-605-7.
NA NA (25 December 2015). Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer. p. 427. ISBN 978-1-349-81366-7.
R. Reginald (1 September 2010). Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2. Wildside Press LLC. p. 864. ISBN 978-0-941028-77-6.
Ann Palmer (20 June 2014). Letters to the Dead: Things I Wish I'd Said. CCB Publishing. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-77143-126-2.
Ieuan Parri. "Lloyd, David Tecwyn (1914-1992), literary critic, author, educationalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
James A. Davies (15 February 2014). Dylan Thomas’s Swansea, Gower and Laugharne. University of Wales Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-78316-133-1.
1992-93 56; 56 1992-93 (1 August 1992). The International Who's Who 1992-93. Taylor & Francis. p. 737. ISBN 978-0-946653-84-3.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Wimborne, Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York. p. 1021.
"John Hughes". The Calon Lan Society. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
"Morgan Bransby Williams - 1914 Obituary". Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
Robert David Griffith. "Evans, Harry (1873-1914), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams. "Anwyl, Sir Edward (1866-1914), Celtic scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
Art and Artists. Hansom Books. 1977. p. 34.
Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Lewis, Sir William Thomas (1837-1914), first Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, coal magnate". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
"Pryce, John (1828-1903), dean of Bangor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
Edward Morgan Humphreys. "Williams, Sir Thomas Marchant (1845-1914), barrister and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.

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[Pocket_On_This_Day-1] Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.

[2] Owen Picton Davies. "Thomas, Sir William James (1867-1945), Baronet, coalowner, philanthropist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

[3] "Welsh outlook a monthly journal". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

[4] "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.

[5] Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 16 June 2014

[6] Y Gymraes: cyhoeddiad misol darluniadol i ferched Cymru. E.W. Evans. 1913.

[7] Frances Diodato Bzowski (1992). American women playwrights, 1900-1930: a checklist. Greenwood Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-313-24238-0.

[8] Patricia Burgess; Roland Turner (1989). The Annual Obituary. St James Press. p. 164.

[9] Meic Stephens (20 September 2012). Welsh Lives - Gone but Not Forgotten. Y Lolfa. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-84771-605-7.

[10] NA NA (25 December 2015). Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer. p. 427. ISBN 978-1-349-81366-7.

[11] R. Reginald (1 September 2010). Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2. Wildside Press LLC. p. 864. ISBN 978-0-941028-77-6.

[12] Ann Palmer (20 June 2014). Letters to the Dead: Things I Wish I'd Said. CCB Publishing. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-77143-126-2.

[13] Ieuan Parri. "Lloyd, David Tecwyn (1914-1992), literary critic, author, educationalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.

[14] James A. Davies (15 February 2014). Dylan Thomas’s Swansea, Gower and Laugharne. University of Wales Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-78316-133-1.

[15] 1992-93 56; 56 1992-93 (1 August 1992). The International Who's Who 1992-93. Taylor & Francis. p. 737. ISBN 978-0-946653-84-3.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[16] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Wimborne, Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York. p. 1021.

[17] "John Hughes". The Calon Lan Society. Retrieved 9 October 2019.

[18] Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.

[19] "Morgan Bransby Williams - 1914 Obituary". Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

[20] Robert David Griffith. "Evans, Harry (1873-1914), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.

[21] Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams. "Anwyl, Sir Edward (1866-1914), Celtic scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 June 2019.

[22] Art and Artists. Hansom Books. 1977. p. 34.

[23] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Lewis, Sir William Thomas (1837-1914), first Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, coal magnate". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 June 2019.

[24] "Pryce, John (1828-1903), dean of Bangor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 June 2019.

[25] Edward Morgan Humphreys. "Williams, Sir Thomas Marchant (1845-1914), barrister and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.