# 1921 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1921 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 Hinds
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Henry Gladstone, later Baron 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 – Arthur Walsh, 3rd Baron Ormathwaite
* Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph

## Events

* 26 January - The Abermule train collision claims 17 lives, including that of the chairman of the rail company, Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest.
* 18 February - by-election: 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.
* 7 March - Francis Edward Mostyn is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff.
* 1 April - Alfred Mond becomes Minister of Health.
* 1 April–28 June - Lockout in the coal mining industry; A. J. Cook, the miner's leader, is sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for "inciting to unlawful assembly".
* 4 June - Cardiologist Thomas Lewis is awarded a knighthood in King George V's Birthday Honours.
* December - Leslie Morris becomes a founder member of the Communist Party of Canada.
* date unknown
** The Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited begins work on the UK's first oil refinery at Llandarcy.
** Last copper smelting in the Lower Swansea valley.
** Hugh Robert Jones founds the Byddin Ymreolaeth Cymru (“Home Rule Army”), which forms the basis for the development of Plaid Cymru.
** John Bodvan Anwyl is appointed secretary of the Welsh dictionary project sponsored by the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales.

## Arts and literature
### Awards

* National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)
* National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Robert John Rowlands, "Min y Môr"
* National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans-Jones

### New books
#### English language

* Edwin Sidney Hartland - primitive society
* Evan Frederic Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar - Trial by Ordeal
* Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda - D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda, by his Daughter and Others
* Francis Brett Young - The Black Diamond

#### Welsh language

* Edward Tegla Davies - Tir Y Dyneddon
* John Evan Davies - Blodau'r Grug
* Moelona - Y Wers Olaf

### New drama

* Saunders Lewis - The Eve of St John

### Music

* Ivor Novello & Dion Titheradge - "And Her Mother Came Too"
* The composer Peter Warlock returns to the family home at Cefn-bryntalch Hall, near Abermule, where he will stay until June 1924.

## Film

* A teenage Roger Livesey makes his screen debut in The Four Feathers and in the same year appears in a film version of Where the Rainbow Ends.

## Sport

* Cricket - Glamorgan CCC is admitted to crickets County Championship competition for the first time.

## Births

* 5 February (in Birkenhead) - Marion Eames, novelist (d. 2007)
* 16 February - Bob Evans, rugby union international (d. 2003)
* 19 March - Tommy Cooper, comedian (d. 1984)
* 3 March - David James, cricketer (d. 2002)
* 21 March - Antony Hopkins, composer, pianist, conductor and broadcaster (d. 2014)
* 4 April - Eileen Beasley, teacher and campaigner (d. 2012)
* 9 April - Jack Jones, footballer (d. 2001)
* 6 May - Ted Morris, footballer (d. 2000)
* 21 May - Leslie Norris, poet (d. 2006)
* 28 May - Rhys Probert, aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
* 4 June - Allen Forward, Wales international rugby union player (d. 1994)
* 8 June - Alwyn Williams, geologist (d. 2004)
* 28 June - R. Tudur Jones, theologian (d. 1998)
* 16 August - Roger Ashton (footballer), footballer (d. 1985)
* 31 August - Raymond Williams, academic and writer (d. 1988)
* 8 September - Sir Harry Secombe, entertainer (d. 2001)
* 13 September - Handel Greville, Wales international rugby union player (d. 2014)
* 15 September - Billy Cleaver, Wales international rugby union player and colliery manager (d. 2003)
* 12 October - Kenneth Griffith, actor and director (d. 2006)
* 3 October – Graham Davies, footballer (d. 2003)
* 18 October – Billy James, footballer (d. 1980)
* 17 December - Ron Davies, photographer (d. 2013)
* 21 December - T. Harri Jones, poet and academic (d. 1965)

## Deaths

* 11 February - William Evans (Tonyrefail), minister and author, 82
* 25 February - John Thomas of Llanwrtyd, composer, 81
* 29 April - Billy Matthews, footballer, 37/38
* 6 June - James Havard Thomas, sculptor, 66
* 5 July - Alfred Onions, politician, 62
* 13 July - Emily Davies, educationist, 90
* 21 July - Tom Deacon - Wales international rugby union player
* 27 July
** John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), author, 85
** (in London) - James Winstone, miners' leader and politician, 58
* 6 August (in Ilfracombe) - Sir David Brynmor Jones QC, lawyer and historian, 68 or 69
* 23 August (in Oswestry) - Francis Jayne, bishop and academic, 76
* 31 August (in Coorparoo, Queensland) - Thomas Rees, mayor of Brisbane, Australia, 76
* 3 October - William Rhys-Herbert, composer, conductor, organist and pianist, 53
* 9 October - Gwyneth Bebb, lawyer, 31
* 11 October - Willie Thomas, Wales international rugby captain, 55
* 12 November - Edward Windsor Richards, engineer, 90
* 15 December - Hopkin Maddock, Wales international rugby player, 40
* 16 December - Owen Morgan, journalist, 85
* 21 December - Joseph Morewood Staniforth, editorial cartoonist, 57 or 58