1931 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1931 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 3 March - Bertrand Russell succeeds to his brother's earldom.[3]
- 14 April - A meteorite falls to earth on farmland in Pontllynfi, near Caernarfon.[4]
- June - Border Breweries (Wrexham) is formed by a merger.[5]
- date unknown
- The Welsh School of Medicine is founded at Cardiff, later becoming the University of Wales College of Medicine.[6]
- Nancy Astor addresses a meeting in Cardiff on the subject of recruiting women into the police.
Arts and literature
- Edward Tegla Davies becomes editor of Yr Efrydydd.[7]
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bangor)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David James Jones[8]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans Jones
New books
English language
- Eliot Crawshay-Williams - Night in the Hotel[9]
- John Morris-Jones - Welsh Syntax: An Unfinished Draft[10]
- Bertrand Russell - The Scientific Outlook[11]
- Lily Tobias â My Mother's House[12]
Welsh language
- John Jenkins (Gwili) - Hanfod Duw a Pherson Crist[13]
- Moelona - Beryl[14]
- Jennie Thomas â Llyfr Mawr y Plant (first appearance of Wil Cwac Cwac)[15]
Music
- Grace Williams â Sextet for oboe, trumpet, violin, viola, cello and piano
Film
- Ray Milland appears in The Bachelor Father, Strangers May Kiss, Just a Gigolo, Son of India, Bought, Ambassador Bill, and Blonde Crazy.
- Mary Glynne appears in Inquest[16]
Broadcasting
- The BBC's Daventry radio transmitter increases its Welsh language output from a monthly to a fortnightly "Welsh interest" programme and includes a regular religious service broadcast entirely in Welsh.
Sport
- Rugby union
- Wales, under the captaincy of Jack Bassett, win the Five Nations Championship.
- 7 February Wales beat Scotland 13â8 at the Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff.
Births
- 4 January - Harry Griffiths, footballer (died 1978)
- 10 January - Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, politician[17]
- 2 February - Glynn Edwards, actor (died 2018)[18]
- 4 March - Gwilym Prichard, landscape painter (d. 2015)[19]
- 13 March - Ted Grace, Swansea-born politician in Australia (died 2020)to 1984.[20]
- 20 March - Orig Williams, wrestler and TV presenter (died 2009)[21]
- 22 March - Leslie Thomas, novelist (died 2014)[22]
- 30 March - Emrys Jones, literary scholar (died 2012)[23][24]
- 7 April - Eifion Evans, church historian (died 2017)[25]
- 11 April - Lewis Jones, rugby player
- 30 April - Merfyn Jones, footballer (died 2016)
- 11 May - Gerry Humphreys, sound engineer (died 2006)
- 29 May â Christopher Evans, computer scientist (died 1979)[26]
- 23 June - Brian Sparks, Wales international rugby union player (died 2013)[27]
- 29 June - Howard Morgan, cricketer
- 2 July - Frank Williams, actor
- 13 July - Philip Jones, businessman and civil servant (died 2000)
- 13 August
- 15 August - Gwyn Evans, bowls player
- 1 September - Mair Wynn Hughes, children's author
- 18 September - Roger Howells, footballer (died 1975)[30]
- 5 November - John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, politician (died 2023)[31]
- 17 November - Dudley Price, footballer (died 2021)
- 27 November - Gareth Griffiths, Wales and British Lions rugby union player
- 29 November - Glyn Hughes, footballer (died 1995)
- 25 December - Dafydd Rowlands, Eisteddfod-winning author (died 2001)[32]
- 27 December - John Charles, footballer (died 2004)[33]
- 30 December - John T. Houghton, climate scientist (died 2020)[34]
- date unknown - Brynley F. Roberts, scholar, librarian, National Library of Wales
Deaths
- 24 January - George Hay Morgan, politician, 64[35]
- 28 January - Robert Henderson, cricketer, 65
- 30 January - Sir Garrod Thomas, physician and politician, 77[36]
- 4 February - David Thomas Jones, administrator, 64
- 22 February - Sir Hugh Vincent, solicitor and Wales international rugby player, 68[37]
- 3 March - Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, 65[38]
- 13 March
- Vernon Hartshorn MP, miners' leader and politician[39]
- Edward Thomas John, politician, 73[40]
- 14 April - John Bryn Roberts, lawyer and politician, 88[41]
- 19 April - Evan Richards, Wales international rugby player, 69
- 12 May - Beddoe Rees, industrialist and politician[42]
- 22 June - Sir Henry Reichel, academic, 74[36]
- 28 July - John Neale Dalton, chaplain and tutor to the British royal family, settled in South Wales, 91[43]
- 7 October - William John Griffith, author,[44]
- 26 October - Edward Perkins Alexander, Wales rugby international, 68
- 29 October - Edward Maes Llaned Owen, engineer, surveyor and merchant, a pioneer of Welsh colonisation in Patagonia, 85
- 2 November - Arthur Cook, miners' leader, 47
- 24 November - Jack Jones, footballer, 62[45]
- 27 December - Alfred Perceval Graves, Irish author settled in Wales, 85[46]