1925 in Wales – Wikipedia

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List of events

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1925 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[edit]

Arts and literature[edit]

Awards[edit]

New books[edit]

English language[edit]

Welsh language[edit]

Music[edit]

Broadcasting[edit]

  • 26 March – Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson, lawyer and Liberal politician (died 2012)[19]
  • 15 April – Geraint Howells, Liberal politician (died 2004)[20]
  • 2 May – Dai Davies, Wales and British Lions international rugby union player (died 2003)
  • 1 June – Roy Clarke, footballer (died 2006)
  • 10 June – Sir John Stradling Thomas, Conservative politician (died 1991)[21]
  • 19 July – Ivor Roberts, television announcer and actor (died 1999)
  • 30 July – Don Hayward, Wales international rugby player (died 1999 in New Zealand)
  • 7 September – Laura Ashley, designer (died 1985)[22]
  • 10 October – Tecwyn Roberts, spaceflight engineer (died 1988 in the United States)[23]
  • 3 November – Gordon Parry, Baron Parry, Welsh politician (died 2004)[24]
  • 10 November – Richard Burton, born Richard Jenkins, actor (died 1984)[25]
  • 24 November – Alun Owen, screenwriter (died 1994)[26]
  • 27 November – John Maddox, science writer (died 2009)[27]
  • 3 December – Roy John, Wales and British Lions international rugby union player (died 1981)
  • 14 December – Ron Stitfall, footballer (died 2008)
  • 21 January – John Puleston Jones (in Welsh), Methodist minister and author, 62[28]
  • 27 January – Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, 83[29]
  • 30 January – Jim Driscoll, boxer (“Peerless Jim”), 44[30]
  • 4 February – William Haggar, pioneer of the cinema industry, 73[31]
  • 18 February – Frank Mills, Wales international rugby player
  • 8 June – Edward John Lewis, Wales international rugby union player, 65[32]
  • 9 August – J. Vyrnwy Morgan, minister and author, 65
  • 25 August – John Fox Tallis, mining engineer, 70
  • 26 September – William Bowen, rugby player, 63
  • 19 October – David John Thomas, Wales international rugby union, 45[33]
  • 4 November – William David Owen, writer, 51[34]
  • 16 November – Towyn Jones, politician, 66[35]
  • 20 November – Alexandra of Denmark, the queen mother, former Princess of Wales, 80[36]
  • 19 December – Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, teacher, 74[37]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  21. ^ John Graham Jones. “Thomas, John Stradling (1925-1991), Conservative politician”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  22. ^ Colin Matthew; Henry Colin Gray Matthew (1999). Brief Lives: Twentieth-century Pen Portraits from the Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-19-280089-3. Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
  23. ^ Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfired (23 March 2016). The Birth of NASA: The Work of the Space Task Group, America’s First True Space Pioneers. Springer. p. 280. ISBN 978-3-319-28428-6. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
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  25. ^ Richard Burton (23 October 2012). The Richard Burton Diaries. Yale University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-300-18010-7. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  26. ^ Tise Vahimagi. “Owen, Alun (1925–1994)”. Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 2006-02-07.
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  28. ^ Robert Richard Hughes. “JONES, JOHN PULESTON (1862-1925)”. Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
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  31. ^ Peter Yorke (8 May 2007). William Haggar (1851-1925): fairground film-maker : [biography of a pioneer of the cinema]. Accent Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-905170-87-6. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  32. ^ Edward John Lewis player profile Archived 2021-09-12 at the Wayback Machine Scrum.com
  33. ^ David Thomas player profile Scrum.com
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  35. ^ David Thomas Jones. “Jones, Josiah Towyn (1858-1925), Congregational minister and Member of Parliament”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  36. ^ Eilers, Marlene A., Queen Victoria’s Descendants, p. 171.
  37. ^ Megan Lewis. “Hughes, Elizabeth Phillips (1851-1925), educationalist”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Archived from the original on 18 December 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2020.


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