“1923 in Wales”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1923 to Wales and its people.

Events

1 January – All major railways in Great Britain are amalgamated into the "Big Four" companies under terms of the Railways Act 1921. The Cambrian Railways and a number of smaller lines and their docks in south Wales are merged into the Great Western Railway and the London and North Western Railway and Midland Railway become part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.^[1]

13 February – The British Broadcasting Company makes its first broadcast in Wales, from "Station 5WA" in Cardiff. Mostyn Thomas opens the programme, singing Dafydd y Garreg Wen and Gwilym Davies becomes the first speaker to broadcast in the Welsh language.^[2]

7 April – By-election at Anglesey ends in victory for Robert Thomas.

26 April – In a mining accident at Trimsaran, nine miners are killed.

1 June – The final stage of the Welsh Highland Railway re-opens.^[3]

September – Edward Bevan is enthroned as the first Bishop of the new Anglican Diocese of Swansea & Brecon.^[4]^[5]

6 December – In the United Kingdom general election:

Ellis William Davies returns to Parliament as MP for Denbigh.
David Grenfell is elected unopposed in Gower.
Rhys Hopkin Morris gains Ceredigion for the Independent Liberals (from the Liberals).
Thomas Henry Parry retains Flintshire for the Liberals with an increased majority.

Coal production at Llay Main Colliery in the North Wales Coalfield begins.

Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent becomes a member of the Council of India.

Maurice Jones is appointed Principal of St David's University College, Lampeter.

Arts and literature

5 February – W. H. Davies marries Helen Payne, an ex-prostitute thirty years his junior, at East Grinstead.

6 June – Charles Langbridge Morgan marries Hilda Vaughan.

W. S. Gwynn Williams becomes Director of Music for the Gorsedd of Bards.

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Mold, Flintshire)

National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – D. Cledlyn Davies

National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Albert Evans Jones

New books

Edward Tegla Davies – Gŵr Pen y Bryn

Thomas Richards – Religious Developments in Wales (1654–1662)

Music

Births

22 February – Bleddyn Williams, rugby player (died 2009)

28 February – John Gwilliam, rugby player (died 2016)

3 April – John Ormond, poet and journalist (died 1990)

21 April – Ronald Cass, film composer (died 2006)

25 April – Paul Whitsun-Jones, actor (died 1974)

26 July – Bernice Rubens, novelist (died 2004)

19 August – Dill Jones, pianist (died 1984)

3 September – Robin Williams, broadcaster and essayist (died 2003)

22 September – Dannie Abse, poet (died 2014)

30 September – Donald Swann, musician (died 1994)

1 October – Trevor Ford, footballer (died 2003)

5 October – Glynis Johns, actress

6 November – Donald Houston, actor (died 1991)

13 November – Alf Sherwood, footballer (died 1990)

21 November – Harry Greene, television D-I-Y expert (died 2013)

30 November – John James, historical novelist (died 1993)

8 December – Gwilym Prys Prys-Davies, Baron Prys-Davies, politician

19 December – Elwyn Jones, television writer (died 1982)

Deaths

9 January – Richard John Lloyd Price, squire of Rhiwlas, 79

22 February – John Jenkins, Prime Minister of South Australia, 71

6 March – General Sir Owen Thomas, politician, 64

19 March – Evan Rees (Dyfed), poet, 73

1 April – Georgiana Rolls, Baroness Llangattock, socialite, benefactor and collector, 86^[6]

4 May – J. Brynach Davies (Brynach), poet, 49

27 May – Charles Lewis, rugby player, 70

18 July – Thomas Arthur Lewis, teacher, lawyer and politician, 41

12 October – John Cadvan Davies, poet and hymn-writer, 77^[7]

References

1. ^{{cite book|author=Bonavia, Michael R.|title=The Four Great Railways|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|year=1980|isbn=978-0-7153-7842-7}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21426191|title=Broadcasting in Wales: 90 years since BBC went on air|first=Neil|last=Prior|date=13 February 2013|publisher=BBC|accessdate=13 February 2013}}
3. ^{{cite journal|first=Peter|last=Johnson|title=The Greatest Little Train|journal=Steam Railway|issue=362 |pages=41–45|publisher=Bauer Publishing |date=May 2009}}
4. ^{{cite book|author1=Ian S. Markham|author2=J. Barney Hawkins, IV|author3=Justyn Terry|author4=Leslie Nuñez Steffensen|title=The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rbwKNhBueasC&pg=PT521|date=13 March 2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-32086-0|pages=521}}
5. ^Ecclesiastical News. New Bishop Enthroned. The Times Saturday, 15 September, 1923; pg. 11; Issue 43447; col C
6. ^{{cite book|title=Flight International|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oJzoAAAAMAAJ|year=1924|publisher=IPC Transport Press Limited}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-CAD-1846#?c=0|title=DAVIES, JOHN CADVAN (Cadvan; 1846 - 1923), Wesleyan minister|author=Edward Tegla Davies|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=6 January 2019}}

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