1914 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed

Events

*21 September - William Charles Fuller wins the Victoria Cross for carrying a wounded officer to safety under fire.
*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).
*The first trolley buses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare.
*William James Thomas, industrialist and philanthropist, is knighted.

Arts and literature

*The monthly periodical, "Welsh Outlook", is founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.).

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales - not held

New books

*Rhoda Broughton - "Concerning a Vow"
*John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes - "Caniadau Moelwyn", vol. 4
*Bertrand Russell - "Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy"

Music

*David John de Lloyd - "Gwlad fy Nhadau" (cantata)
*Ivor Novello - "Keep the Home Fires Burning" (lyrics by Lena Ford)

Film

*Welsh-descended Harold Lloyd begins his film career.
*"Wild Wales" [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/398606?view=release]

port

*Boxing
**26 January: Percy Jones wins the British, European and World (disputed) featherweight titles.
**30 March: Jimmy Wilde wins the European flyweight title.
**14 December: Johnny Basham wins the British welterweight title.

Births

*12 March - Tommy Farr, boxer (died 1986)
*21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (died 2003)
*23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (died 1986)
*9 September - Alexander Cordell, novelist (died 1997)
*12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (died 1999)
*27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (died 1953)
*"date unknown"
**Clifford Dyment, poet (died 1971)

Deaths

*22 February - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne
*21 June - Morgan Bransby Williams, engineer
*23 July (in Liverpool) - Harry Evans, conductor and composer
*8 August - Sir Edward Anwyl, academic, 48
*22 August (in Swanley) - James Dickson Innes, artist
*27 August - William Thomas Lewis, Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd
*27 October - Sir T. Marchant Williams, lawyer and author