1921 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1921 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 - Dyfed

Events

*February - Ernest Evans becomes Liberal MP for Cardiganshire, winning the seat vacated by Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, on the latter's elevation to the peerage.
*December - Leslie Morris becomes a founder member of the Communist Party of Canada.
*23 December - The "Maid of Delos" sinks off the coast of Dyfed, with 26 deaths.
*The Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited begins work on the UK's first oil refinery at Llandarcy.
*Hugh Robert Jones founds the Byddin Ymreolaeth Cymru (“Home Rule Army”), which forms the basis for the development of Plaid Cymru.
*Cardiologist Thomas Lewis is knighted.
*John Bodvan Anwyl is appointed secretary of the Welsh dictionary project sponsored by the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales.
*A. J. Cook is sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for "inciting to unlawful assembly".
*Francis Edward Mostyn becomes Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff.

Arts and literature

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)

*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Robert John Rowlands
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans-Jones

New books

*Edward Tegla Davies - "Tir Y Dyneddon"
*John Evan Davies - "Blodau'r Grug"
*Edwin Sidney Hartland - "Primitive Society"
*Moelona - "Y Wers Olaf"
*Evan Frederic Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar - "Trial by Ordeal"
*Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda - "D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda, by his Daughter and Others"

New drama

*Saunders Lewis - "The Eve of St John"

Music

*Ivor Novello & Peter Dion Titheradge -"And Her Mother Came Too"

Film

*Edmund Gwenn stars in a silent version of "The Skin Game".
*Roger Livesey makes his screen debut in "The Four Feathers".

Broadcasting

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port

*Cricket - Glamorgan was admitted to the County Championship competition for the first time.

Births

*February 5 (in Birkenhead) - Marion Eames, novelist
*March 19 - Tommy Cooper, comedian (d. 1984)
*May 21 - Leslie Norris, poet (d. 2006)
*June 28 - R. Tudur Jones, theologian (d. 1998)
*August 31 - Raymond Williams, academic and writer (d. 1988)
*September 8 - Sir Harry Secombe, entertainer (d. 2001)
*September 15 - Billy Cleaver, Wales international rugby union player
*October 12 - Kenneth Griffith, actor and director (d. 2006)

Deaths

*February 11 - William Evans (Tonyrefail), minister and author, 82
*February 25 - John Thomas of Llanwrtyd, composer, 81
*July 6 - Alfred Onions, politician
*August 15 - Sir David Brynmor Jones, QC, politician, 70?
*July 27
**John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), author, 85
**James Winstone, politician, 58?
*August 23 - Francis Jayne, bishop and academic, 76
*December 16 - Owen Morgan, journalist, 85?
*December 21 - Joseph Morewood Staniforth, editorial cartoonist