1932 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1932 to Wales and its people.
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
Events
- 25 January – Leif Jones is created Baron Rhayader.
- 1 March (Saint David's Day) – Members of Plaid Cymru on two occasions replace the Union Jack flying over Caernarfon Castle with a flag displaying the red Welsh Dragon.[1]
- c. August – The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl, is completed.
- Plaid Cymru adopts self-government as its official policy.
- Hilary Marquand’s economic surveys of South Wales highlight the depressed conditions in the area during the Great Depression in the United Kingdom.
Arts and literature
- Frank Brangwyn completes the Empire Panels.
- Welsh-language newspaper Y Cymro is launched.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Port Talbot)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – D. J. Davies
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Thomas Eurig Davies
New books
- Richard Ithamar Aaron – Hanes Athroniaeth
- Margiad Evans – Country Dance
- Elisabeth Inglis-Jones – Crumbling Pageant
- T. H. Parry-Williams – Canu Rhydd Cynnar
- Howard Spring – Darkie and Co.
- Hilda Vaughan – The Soldier and the Gentlewoman
- David Walters (Eurof) – Pwerau'r Deufyd
- Francis Brett Young – The House Under the Water
Music
- W. Bradwen – Mab yr ystorm
- Grace Williams
- Suite for orchestra
- Two Psalms for contralto, harp and strings[2]
Film
- 13 June – Port Talbot-born English actress Peg Entwistle signs a contract with RKO in the United States.
- 16 September – Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" of the giant Hollywoodland sign.
- Edmund Gwenn appears in Tell Me Tonight, Money for Nothing, Condemned to Death, Love on Wheels, Lord Babs and Frail Women.
Broadcasting
The broadcasting committee of the Welsh Parliamentary Labour Party obtains agreement from the BBC to broadcast a fortnightly programme and religious content in the Welsh language.[3]
Sport
- Boxing
- 3 February – Jack Petersen beats Dick Power to take the Welsh heavyweight title.
- 23 May – Jack Petersen wins the British light-heavyweight title.
- 12 July – Jack Petersen wins the British heavyweight title.
Births
- 20 March – Garfield Owen, Wales dual-code rugby international
- 6 April – Leon Eagles, actor
- 28 May – John Savage, prime minister of Nova Scotia (died 2003)[4]
- 30 May – Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, politician (died 2018)
- 30 June – Derek Tapscott, footballer (died 2008)
- 10 July – Maureen Guy, mezzo-soprano (died 2015)
- 27 July – Dennis Callan, footballer (d. 2006)
- 12 August – Gwilym Jenkins, statistician and systems engineer (died 1982)
- 31 August – Colin Gale, footballer (died 2008)
- 9 September – Alice Thomas Ellis, born Ann Margaret Lindholm in Liverpool, novelist (died 2005)[5]
- 8 October – Ray Reardon, snooker player
- 18 October – Don Devereux, dual-code rugby player (died 1995)
- 24 October – Allan Rogers, politician
- 16 November – Onllwyn Brace, Wales rugby union captain (died 2013)[6]
- 21 November – Alvan Williams, footballer (died 2003)
- 7 December – Elystan Morgan, politician
- 15 December – John Meurig Thomas, chemist
- date unknown
- Richard Cyril Hughes, historian
Deaths
- 27 February – Dicky Owen, Wales rugby union international, 55 (suicide)
- 3 March – Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist, 80[7]
- 10 April – Gwyn Thomas, cricketer, 41
- 14 May – John Hughes, composer of Cwm Rhondda, 58[8]
- 27 May – M. C. Jones, racing driver, 37 (killed during qualification for Indianapolis 500 in the United States)
- 8 June – Margaret Nevinson, suffrage campaigner, 74[9]
- 9 July – John Owen Williams (Pedrog), minister and poet[10]
- 10 July – Martha Hughes Cannon, Welsh-born US physician, politician and campaigner, 75[11]
- 20 July – Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion, 41 (killed in mining accident)[12]
- 23 July – Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner, 48
- 30 August – Conway Rees, Wales rugby union international, 62
- 11 September – Aneurin Rees Wales rugby union international, 74
- 16 September – Peg Entwistle, actress, 24 (suicide)[13]
- 26 October – William Howell Davies, merchant and politician, 80[14]
- 25 November – John Williams, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 75
See also
References
- ^ Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "The Red Dragon Saga". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 96–106. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
- ^ Evans, John (2009). Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928–1938. London: Faber & Faber. p. 174.
- ^ Mari A. Williams; Geraint H. Jenkins (2000). Let's Do Our Best for the Ancient Tongue: The Welsh Language in the Twentieth Century. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1658-0.
- ^ Staff (23 May 2003). "John Savage". The Telegraph. London, UK. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ Alice Thomas Ellis: obituary by Clare Colvin at The Guardian, 10 March 2005
- ^ "Former Newport scrum half Onllwyn Brace mourned". South Wales Argus. 5 July 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
- ^ Griffiths, Ezer; Falconer, Isobel (2004). "Griffiths, Ernest Howard (1851–1932)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "HUGHES, JOHN (1873–1932), composer of the hymn-tune 'Cwm Rhondda'". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- ^ John, Angela V. "Nevinson [née Jones], Margaret Wynne (1858–1932), women's rights activist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004-09-23. Oxford University Press. Date of access 9 Mar. 2018.
- ^ Idwal Lewis. "Williams, John Owen (Pedrog); 1853-1932), Congregational minister and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ Martha Hughes Cannon; Angus Munn Cannon (1989). Letters from Exile: The Correspondence of Martha Hughes Cannon and Angus M. Cannon, 1886-1888. Signature Books. p. xxv. ISBN 978-0-941214-77-3.
- ^ "Billy Beynon Hill in Bryn to honour boxer's achievement". BBC News. 11 April 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Young Actress Ends Life In Hollywood". The Lewiston Daily Sun. 20 September 1932. p. 11. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ^ W. G. Neale (1968). At the Port of Bristol: Members and problems, 1848-1890. 42. Port of Bristol Authority. p. 75.