# 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** Incidental music for Alcestis (unpublished)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