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]
- ^ Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ^ Emlyn Glasnant Jenkins (2001). “Lewis, Howell Elvet (‘Elfed’; 1860–1953), Independent minister, hymn-writer, poet”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ Tony Woolway (15 October 2016). Cardiff in the Headlines. Amberley Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4456-4889-7. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
- ^ “Ammanford Anthracite Strike 1925”. 2010-08-24. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ Morgan, Kenneth O. (1981). Rebirth of a nation: Wales, 1880-1980. History of Wales. Vol. 6 (reprint 2002 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 206. ISBN 0-19-821760-9. Archived from the original on 2021-09-12. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
- ^ Davies, John (1994). A History of Wales. Penguin. p. 547. ISBN 0-14-014581-8.
- ^ Nigel R. Jones (2005). Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-313-31850-4. Archived from the original on 2021-09-12. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ^ Editor & Publisher. Editor & Publisher Company. 1962. p. 28. Archived from the original on 2021-09-12. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ^ “Winners of the Chair”. National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
- ^ “Winners of the Crown”. National Eisteddfod of Wales. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. “Bradney, Sir Joseph Alfred (Achydd Glan Troddi; 1859-1933), historian of Monmouthshire”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Archived from the original on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
- ^ An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Caernarvonshire: I East: the Cantref of Arllechwedd and the Commote of Creuddyn. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. 1960. p. 182. Archived from the original on 2021-09-12. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ^ “Reviews”. Western Mail. 27 November 2010.[dead link]
- ^ Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for … University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. 1952. p. 128. Archived from the original on 2021-09-12. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ^ Evan David Jones. “Davies, David Rees (‘Cledlyn’; 1875-1964), schoolmaster, poet, writer, local historian”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. “Owen, William David (1874-1925), lawyer and journalist”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ Studia Celtica. University of Wales Press. 1981. p. 232. Archived from the original on 2021-09-12. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ^ “Jerry The Troublesome Tyke”. The National Library of Wales. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ^ Andrew Roth (26 February 2012). “Lord Hooson obituary”. The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ Andrew Roth (19 April 2004). “Lord Geraint”. The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Meic Stephens (6 September 2004). “Lord Parry”. The Independent. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Tise Vahimagi. “Owen, Alun (1925–1994)”. Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 2006-02-07.
- ^ “Obituary: Sir John Maddox” Archived 2021-09-12 at the Wayback Machine, The Times, 13 April 2009.
- ^ Robert Richard Hughes. “JONES, JOHN PULESTON (1862-1925)”. Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ^ The Encyclopedia Americana. Americana Corporation. 1954. p. 460. Archived from the original on 2021-06-20. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
- ^ Emlyn Wynne Evans. “Driscoll, James (1880-1925), boxer”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Edward John Lewis player profile Archived 2021-09-12 at the Wayback Machine Scrum.com
- ^ David Thomas player profile Scrum.com
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. “Owen, William David (1874-1925), lawyer and journalist”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Eilers, Marlene A., Queen Victoria’s Descendants, p. 171.
- ^ 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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