1924 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1924 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"
*Archbishop of Wales - Alfred George Edwards
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Elfed

Events

*January - Ramsay MacDonald, MP for Aberavon, becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the UK.
*26 April - Harry Grindell Matthews fails to convince the War Office of the efficacy of his new invention, the "death ray".
*29 October - In the United Kingdom general election, 1924:
**The Welsh electorate is 1,289,924
**Of 36 Welsh MPs, eight are elected unopposed.
**MacDonald loses his position as Prime Minister
**Only one female candidate stands for election in Wales.
**Newly-elected MPs include Walter D'Arcy Hall (Brecon and Radnor), Henry Arthur Evans (Cardiff South), Alfred Mond (Carmarthen) and Walter Runciman (Swansea West).
**Ernest Evans defeats George Maitland Lloyd Davies to win the University of Wales seat for the Liberals.
*Vernon Hartshorn becomes Postmaster-General.
*Jimmy Thomas becomes Colonial Secretary.
*David Ifon Jones becomes the only Welshman ever to be given a state funeral in the Soviet Union.

Arts and literature

*Claude Friese-Greene visits Cardiff, Chepstow and Raglan in the course of his drive from John O'Groats to Land's End.
*A rare Handled Beaker is found during archaeological excavations at a Bronze Age burial cairn in the Black Mountains.

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Pontypool)

*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Albert Evans Jones
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Edward Prosser Rhys

New books

*Edward Morgan Humphreys - "Yr Etifedd Coll"
*Saunders Lewis - "A School of Welsh Augustans"
*Arthur Machen - "The London Adventure"
*R. Williams Parry - "Yr Haf a cherddi eraill"

Music

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Film

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Broadcasting

*May - The BBC broadcasts the first in a series of 18 Welsh-language lessons.
*31 July - Broadcast of extracts from "Y Pwyllgor", a play by D. T. Davies.
*12 December - The first transmission is made from the 5SX radio relay station in Swansea. The studio is opened by the Mayor of Swansea.

port

*Football - 49-year-old Billy Meredith becomes the oldest man ever to play in an FA Cup semi-final.

Births

*9 February - George Guest, organist and choirmaster of St John's College, Cambridge (died 2002)
*15 March - Tom Ellis, politician
*4 April - Emrys Evans, banker (d. 2004)
*7 June - Donald Watts Davies, computer scientist (d. 2000)
*17 September - Islwyn Ffowc Elis, author
*"date unknown" - Peter Halliday, actor

Deaths

*19 March - John Richard Williams (J. R. Tryfanwy), poet
*2 June - William Henry Griffith Thomas, influential clergyman
*6 August - John Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), organist and composer