- Source: 1928 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1928 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
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.
18 June – Amelia Earhart lands near Burry Port, becoming the first woman passenger on a Transatlantic flight.
December – Rapallo House, Llandudno, is handed over to the local council to be used as a museum, as a bequest from Francis Edouard Chardon.
unknown dates
Dr John Williams establishes a hospital at Durtlang in the Lushai Hills (Mizoram) of India.
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales is founded by Clough Williams-Ellis.
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.
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.
= Awards
=National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Treorchy)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – withheld
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Caradog Prichard
= New books
=English language
Dorothy Edwards – Winter Sonata
Hilda Vaughan – The Invader: a tale of adventure and passion
Welsh language
Moelona – Breuddwydion Myfanwy
T. H. Parry-Williams – Ysgrifau
Iorwerth Peate – Y Cawg Aur a cherddi eraill
Richard Thomas – David Williams, y Piwritan
= Music
=David Evans
Concerto for String Orchestra
Incidental music for Alcestis (unpublished)
Film
The Truth Game, starring Ivor Novello
Broadcasting
Isaac J. Williams presents Travel Talks on Art
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.
Yachting – The North Wales Cruising Club is formed.
Births
2 January – Dai Royston Bevan, rugby player (d. 2008)
1 February – Sam Edwards, physicist (d. 2015)
8 February – Osian Ellis, harpist (d. 2021)
9 February – Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, solicitor and politician (d. 1992)
6 March – Glyn Owen, actor (d. 2004)
9 April – Albert Gubay, businessman (d. 2016)
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)
19 June – Ray Powell, politician (d. 2001)
11 July – Greville Janner, Labour MP and lawyer (d. 2015)
14 July – Haydn Morris, international rugby union player (d. 2021)
26 July – Bernice Rubens, novelist (d. 2004)
7 August – Gwilym Roberts, politician (d. 2018)
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)
23 October – Keith Jones, footballer (d. 2007)
20 November – John Disley, distance runner (d. 2016)
19 December – Gwyn Rowlands, rugby union international (d. 2010)
Deaths
11 January – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, 63
21 March – Stanley L. Wood, illustrator, 61
14 April – Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 62
13 May – David John Thomas (Afan), composer and conductor, 47
19 May – Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, heraldry expert (of Welsh descent), 57
23 May – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist, 50 (head injury)
3 June – Tosh Powell, Welsh champion boxer, 20
21 June – Marie Novello, pianist, c. 30 (emphysema)
23 July – John Hinds, businessman and politician, 65
23 August – Daniel Davies, Bishop of Bangor, 64
30 August – Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral, 65
6 September – Richard Ellis, librarian, 62
1 October – Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, judge, 70
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
date unknown – John Morgan Howell, local politician in Cardiganshire, 72/3
See also
1928 in Northern Ireland
References
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- Majapahit
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- Catholic Church in England and Wales
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- 1928 New South Wales prohibition referendum
- R. Geraint Gruffydd
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