1928 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1928 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 29 March â 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 â The Welsh National War Memorial is unveiled in Cardiff by The Prince of Wales.[4]
- 18 June â Amelia Earhart lands near Burry Port, becoming the first woman passenger on a Transatlantic flight.[5]
- December â Rapallo House, Llandudno, is handed over to the local council to be used as a museum,[6] as a bequest from Francis Edouard Chardon.
- unknown dates
- Dr John Williams establishes a hospital at Durtlang in the Lushai Hills (Mizoram) of India.[7]
- The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales is founded by Clough Williams-Ellis.[8]
- The community of Benedictine monks leaves Caldey Island for Prinknash Abbey. They are replaced at Caldey by a Cistercian order in 1929.[9]
- 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.[10]
- Brynmawr Experiment begins.
Arts and literature
- October â 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.[11]
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Treorchy)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair â withheld[12]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown â Caradog Prichard
New books
English language
- Dorothy Edwards â Winter Sonata[13]
- Hilda Vaughan â The Invader: a tale of adventure and passion[14]
Welsh language
- Moelona â Breuddwydion Myfanwy[15]
- T. H. Parry-Williams â Ysgrifau[16]
- Iorwerth Peate â Y Cawg Aur a cherddi eraill[17]
- Richard Thomas â David Williams, y Piwritan
Music
- David Evans
- Concerto for String Orchestra
- Incidental music for Alcestis (unpublished)[18]
Film
- The Truth Game, starring Ivor Novello[19]
Broadcasting
Sport
- Badminton â The Welsh Badminton Union is formed.
- Boxing â Welsh Bantamweight champion Tosh Powell dies after a fight with Billy Housego in Liverpool.
- Football â The 1928 Welsh Cup Final is contested by Bangor and Cardiff City at Farrar Road Stadium, Bangor, and ends in a 2â0 victory for Cardiff.[22]
- Yachting â The North Wales Cruising Club is formed.
Births
- 2 January â Dai Royston Bevan, rugby player (d. 2008)[23]
- 1 February â Sam Edwards, physicist (d. 2015)[24]
- 8 February â Osian Ellis, harpist (d. 2021)[25]
- 9 February â Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, solicitor and politician (d. 1992)[26]
- 6 March â Glyn Owen, actor (d. 2004)[27]
- 9 April â Albert Gubay, businessman (d. 2016)[28]
- 27 April
- Selwyn Hughes, clergyman and writer (d. 2006)
- Hubert Rees, television character actor (d. 2009)
- 7 June â Dave Bowen, football player and manager (d. 1995)
- 9 June â R. Geraint Gruffydd, academic and theologian (d. 2015)[29]
- 19 June â Ray Powell, politician (d. 2001)[30]
- 11 July â Greville Janner, Labour MP and lawyer (d. 2015)[31][32]
- 14 July â Haydn Morris, international rugby union player (d. 2021)
- 26 July â Bernice Rubens, novelist (d. 2004)[33]
- 7 August â Gwilym Roberts, politician (d. 2018)[34]
- 12 August â Roy Davies, cricketer (d. 2013)
- 14 August â Sid Judd, Wales international rugby union player (d. 1959)
- 1 September â Emrys James, actor (d. 1989)[35]
- 17 September â Dafydd Orwig, educationist (d. 1996)[36]
- 23 October â Keith Jones, footballer (d. 2007)
- 20 November â John Disley, distance runner (d. 2016)[37]
- 19 December â Gwyn Rowlands, rugby union international (d. 2010)
Deaths
- 11 January â Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, 63[38]
- 21 March â Stanley L. Wood, illustrator, 61[39]
- 14 April â Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 62[40]
- 13 May â David John Thomas (Afan), composer and conductor, 47[41]
- 19 May â Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, heraldry expert (of Welsh descent), 57[42]
- 23 May â Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist, 50 (head injury)[43]
- 3 June â Tosh Powell, Welsh champion boxer, 20[44]
- 21 June â Marie Novello, pianist, c. 30 (emphysema)[45]
- 23 July â John Hinds, businessman and politician, 65
- 23 August â Daniel Davies, Bishop of Bangor, 64[46]
- 30 August â Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral, 65[47]
- 6 September â Richard Ellis, librarian, 62[48]
- 1 October â Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, judge, 70[49]
- 3 December â Isaac Hughes (Craigfryn), poet and novelist, 76[50]
- 13 December â Harry Jarman, Wales and British Lions international rugby union player, 34â35
- 29 December â George Boots, rugby player, 54[51]
- date unknown â John Morgan Howell, local politician in Cardiganshire, 72/3