1911 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1911 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

*23 June - The future Edward VIII of the United Kingdom is created Prince of Wales by his father, King George V.
*July - Dockers' strike at Cardiff culminates in rioting. Five hundred troops are drafted into the area.
*13 July - The new Prince of Wales is invested with his title in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, devised by David Lloyd George.
*23 July - King George V and Queen Mary lay the foundation stone of the new National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
*August - Rioting in Bargoed, Brynamman, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar. Jewish-owned businesses are attacked. Troops are brought in.
*17 August - During a railway strike in Llanelli, two men are shot dead by police. Magistrates' homes are attacked, and railway trucks are set on fire, resulting in an explosion which kills a further four people.
*September/October - Rioting during industrial unrest in Swansea.
*A Welsh Nationalist League is founded at Carmarthen to campaign for Home Rule.
*Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas drafts the memorandum giving copyright status to the National Library of Wales.

Arts and literature

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Carmarthen
**Chair - William Roberts
**Crown - William Crwys Williams

New books

*Edward Morgan Humphreys - "Dirgelwch yr Anialwch"
*Sir John Edward Lloyd – "A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest"
*John Ward – "The Roman Era in Britain"

Music

*Sir Henry Walford Davies - "Symphony in G"

port

*Boxing - Freddie Welsh loses his British lightweight title to Matt Wells.
*Horse racing - Jack Anthony wins the Grand National for the first time, on "Glenside".
*Rugby union - Wales win their third Grand Slam.

Births

*27 March - Alwyn D. Rees, writer (died 1974)
*2 September - Jack Petersen, boxer (died 1990)
*4 September - John Robert Jones, philosopher
*12 November - Pennar Davies, clergyman and author (died 1996)
*7 December - John Gwyn Griffiths, academic (died 2004)
*"date unknown"
**Idris Foster, academic (died 1984)
**Dai Francis, miners’ leader
**Alfred Janes, artist (died 1999)
**Gwilym Tilsley, poet and archdruid

Deaths

*February 8 - Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor, politician, 63
*March 3 - Jacob Thomas, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1833)
*April 29 - Hugh Robert Hughes, genealogist, 83
*August 13 - Thomas Thomas, boxer, 31
*August 18 - Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, politician (born 1828)
*November 11 - Robert Davies Roberts, scientist and author, 60
*December 11 - Rowland Ellis, bishop, 70
*"date unknown" - Arthur John Williams, politician