1914 in Wales

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

← 1913 1912 1911 1910 1909 1914 in Wales → 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
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

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]

References

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3. "Welsh outlook a monthly journal". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
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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.
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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.
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20. Robert David Griffith. "Evans, Harry (1873-1914), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
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