# 1914 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1914 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed
* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John William Gwynne Hughes
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank
* Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams
* Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes
* Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
* Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

## Events

* 14 January - The first trolleybuses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare.
* 23 February - Light cruiser HMS Cordelia is launched at Pembroke Dock.
* 11 March - A Welsh Home Rule Bill is introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire; it fails.
* 4 April - Ystradfellte Reservoir inaugurated.
* 2 May - South Wales Transport begins operating motorbuses in the Swansea area.
* 4 August - World War I: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire.
* 6 August - Pembroke Dock-built HMS Amphion (1911) becomes the first British naval casualty of the war when she strikes mines off the east coast.
* 18 September - Welsh Church Act, disestablishing the Church in Wales, receives Royal Assent, but simultaneously with the Suspensory Act which delays its coming into effect.
* 21 September - William Charles Fuller wins the Victoria Cross for carrying a wounded officer to safety under fire.
* 14 November - Light cruiser HMS Carysfort is launched at Pembroke Dock.
* unknown dates
** A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon.
** The hundredth intermediate school in Wales is established under the Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act, 1889.
** William James Thomas, industrialist and philanthropist, is knighted.
** Pen-coed Castle is restored by D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda.

## Arts and literature

* January - The monthly periodical Welsh Outlook is founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.).

### Awards

* National Eisteddfod of Wales - not held

### New books

* Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a Vow
* Moelwyn - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4
* Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
* T. E. Ellis - Pont Orewyn

### Drama

* T. Gwynn Jones - Caradog yn Rhufain

### Music

* David John de Lloyd - Gwlad fy Nhadau (cantata)
* Ivor Novello - "Keep the Home Fires Burning"
* William Rhys-Herbert - The Bo'sn's Bride (operetta based on a play by Maude Elizabeth Inch)

## Film

* Welsh-descended Harold Lloyd begins his film career.
* Wild Wales

## Sport

* Boxing
** 26 January: Percy Jones wins the British, European and World (disputed) featherweight titles.
** 30 March: Jimmy Wilde wins the European flyweight title.
** 7 July: Freddie Welsh wins the World lightweight title
** 14 December: Johnny Basham wins the British welterweight title.
* Rugby union
** 14 March: After Percy Jones is targeted by Irish players during the 1914 Five Nations Championship, Harry Uzzell leads his men in retaliation in a game notorious for its on the field violence. Wales win the match, and the Welsh pack are dubbed the 'Terrible Eight' by the press.

## Births

* 28 January - Trefor Morgan, financier (d. 1970)
* 11 February - Mervyn Levy, art critic (d. 1996)
* 12 March - Tommy Farr, boxer (d. 1986)
* 12 March - Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain (d. 1990)
* 21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (d. 2003)
* 23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (d. 1986)
* 18 May - Louis Ford, footballer
* 24 May
** Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, (d. 1996)
** Harry Parr Davies, composer and songwriter (d. 1955)
* 9 September - Alexander Cordell, novelist (d. 1997)
* 12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)
* 22 October - David Tecwyn Lloyd, author (d. 1992)
* 27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (d. 1953)
* 21 November - Charles Fisher, poet (d. 2006)
* 2 December - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player
* 7 December - Bryan Hopkin, economist (d. 2009)
* date unknown - Norah Isaac, educationalist (died 2003)

## Deaths

* 22 February - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 78
* 4 May - Rowland Griffiths, rugby player, 28 (typhoid)
* 17 May - John L. Griffiths, US lawyer and diplomat of Welsh parentage, 58
* 16 June - John Hughes (Landore), composer, 42 (cerebral haemorrhage)
* 18 June - Abel Davies, rugby union player, 53?
* 21 June - Morgan Bransby Williams, engineer, 89
* 23 July - Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41
* 8 August - Sir Edward Anwyl, academic, 48
* 22 August (in Swanley) - James Dickson Innes, artist, 27 (tuberculosis)
* 27 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, 77
* 17 September - Shadrach Pryce, clergyman and educationalist, 81
* 2 October - Jack Hughes, footballer, 59
* 22 October - William Morgan, cricketer, 51/2
* 27 October - Sir T. Marchant Williams, lawyer and author, 68/9