1928 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1928 to Wales and its people.

← 1927 1926 1925 1924 1923 1928 in Wales → 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1928 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
  • Elfed (outgoing)
  • Pedrog (incoming)

Events

• 29 March – The Grwyne Fawr reservoir is completed in the Brecon Beacons by the Abertillery & District Water Board, 16 years after the start of construction (work having been interrupted by World War I).
• 12 June – The Welsh National War Memorial is unveiled in Cardiff by The Prince of Wales.[1]
• 18 June – Amelia Earhart lands near Burry Port, becoming the first woman passenger on a Transatlantic flight.[2]
• December – Rapallo House, Llandudno, is handed over to the local council to be used as a museum,[3] as a bequest from Francis Edouard Chardon.
• Dr John Williams establishes a hospital at Durtlang in the Lushai Hills (Mizoram) of India.[4]
• The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales is founded by Clough Williams-Ellis.[5]
• The community of Benedictine monks leaves Caldey Island for Prinknash Abbey. They are replaced at Caldey by a Cistercian order in 1929.
• Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, buys Gwrych Castle for £78,000.
• The Cardiff Station Orchestra, predecessor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, is formed.[6]
• Brynmawr Experiment begins.

Arts and literature

• October – Eric Gill and members of his artistic community leave Capel-y-ffin for Speen, Buckinghamshire.
• Sir William Llewellyn is the first Welshman to become President of the Royal Academy of Arts.[7]

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Treorchy)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – withheld[8]
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Caradog Prichard

New books

English language

• Dorothy Edwards – Winter Sonata[9]
• Hilda Vaughan – The Invader: a tale of adventure and passion[10]

Welsh language

• Moelona – Breuddwydion Myfanwy[11]
• T. H. Parry-Williams – Ysgrifau
• Iorwerth Peate – Y Cawg Aur
• Richard Thomas – David Williams, y Piwritan

Music

• David Evans – Incidental music for Alcestis (unpublished)

Film

• The Truth Game, starring Ivor Novello[12]

Broadcasting

• Isaac J. Williams presents Travel Talks on Art[13][14]

Sport

• Badminton – The Welsh Badminton Union is formed.
• Boxing – Welsh Bantamweight champion Tosh Powell dies after a fight with Billy Housego in Liverpool.
• Football – The 1928 Welsh Cup Final is contested by Bangor and Cardiff City at Farrar Road Stadium, Bangor, and ends in a 2–0 victory for Cardiff.[15]
• Yachting – The North Wales Cruising Club is formed.

Births

• 2 January – Dai Royston Bevan, rugby player (d. 2008)[16]
• 1 February – Sam Edwards, physicist (d. 2015)[17]
• 8 February – Osian Ellis, harpist[18]
• 9 February – Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, solicitor and politician (d. 1992)[19]
• 6 March – Glyn Owen, actor (d. 2004)[20]
• 9 April – Albert Gubay, businessman (d. 2016)[21]
• 27 April
  • Selwyn Hughes, clergyman and writer (d. 2006)
  • Hubert Rees, television character actor (d. 2009)
• 7 June – Dave Bowen, football player and manager (d. 1995)
• 9 June – R. Geraint Gruffydd, academic and theologian (d. 2015)[22]
• 19 June – Ray Powell, politician (d. 2001)[23]
• 26 July – Bernice Rubens, novelist (d. 2004)[24]
• 7 August – Gwilym Roberts, politician (d. 2018)[25]
• 12 August – Roy Davies, cricketer (d. 2013)
• 14 August – Sid Judd, Wales international rugby union player (d. 1959)
• 1 September – Emrys James, actor (d. 1989)
• 17 September – Dafydd Orwig, educationist (d. 1996)[26]
• 23 October – Keith Jones, footballer (d. 2007)
• 20 November – John Disley, distance runner (d. 2016)[27]
• 19 December – Gwyn Rowlands, rugby union international (d. 2010)

Deaths

• 11 January – Joseph Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, 63[28]
• 21 March – Stanley L. Wood, illustrator, 61/2
• 14 April – Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 62[29]
• 13 May – David John Thomas (Afan), composer and conductor, 47[30]
• 19 May – Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, heraldry expert (of Welsh descent), 57[31]
• 23 May – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist, 50 (head injury)[32]
• 2 June – Tosh Powell, Welsh champion boxer, 20[33]
• 21 June – Marie Novello, pianist, c. 30 (emphysema)[34]
• 23 July – John Hinds, businessman and politician, 65
• 23 August – Daniel Davies, Bishop of Bangor, 64[35]
• 30 August – Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral, 65[36]
• 6 September – Richard Ellis, librarian, 62
• 3 December – Isaac Hughes (Craigfryn), poet and novelist, 76
• 13 December – Harry Jarman, Wales and British Lions international rugby union player, 34–35
• 29 December – George Boots, rugby player, 54[37]
• date unknown – John Morgan Howell, local politician in Cardiganshire, 72/3

See also

• 1928 in Northern Ireland

References

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2. Shari Benstock; Suzanne Ferriss (1994). On Fashion. Rutgers University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8135-2033-9.
3. National Museum of Wales (1928). Annual Report. The Museum. p. 23.
4. J. Meirion Lloyd (1991). History of the Church in Mizoram: Harvest in the Hills. Synod Publication Board. p. 370.
5. Madhu Satsangi; Nick Gallent; Mark Bevan (2010). The Rural Housing Question: Communities and Planning in Britain's Countrysides. Policy Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-84742-384-9.
6. Alun Guy (September 2004). Students Guide to Gcse Music for the Wjec Specification: English Language Edition. Rhinegold Publishing Ltd. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-904226-59-8.
7. Arts Magazine. Art Digest Inc. 1940.
8. John Davies; Nigel Jenkins; Menna Baines (2008). The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
9. Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1929. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. 1929. p. 2029.
10. Wisconsin Library Bulletin. Division of Library Services, Department of Public Instruction. 1928. p. 346.
11. Katie Gramich (2007). Twentieth-century Women's Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-2086-0.
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