1916 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1916 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1916 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves ^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans ^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John William Gwynne Hughes
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West ^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Henry Gladstone, later Baron Gladstone ^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet ^[7]
• 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 ^[8]
• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams ^[9]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes ^[10]
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales) ^[11]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen ^[12]

Lloyd George in 1916

Events

• 1 January
  • The Port Eynon life-boat capsizes and three crew members die.
  • The Royal laryngologist John Milsom Rees is knighted. ^[13]
• 8 January – The Apostolic Church in Wales is established.
• 2 February – Submarine HMS J4 is launched at Pembroke Dock. ^[14]
• 7 February – The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cardiff is established.
• 1 March – Transfer of the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth into its purpose-built premises is completed. ^[15]
• 3 March – Light cruiser HMS Cambrian is launched at Pembroke Dock. ^[16]
• 31 May–1 June – Hugh Evan-Thomas distinguishes himself in the Battle of Jutland; ^[17] he is later knighted.
• 1 June – Miners' wages in the South Wales Coalfield are increased by 15%. ^[18]
• 11 June – Frongoch internment camp is used as a place of imprisonment for approximately 1,800 Irishmen involved with the Easter Rising. ^[19]
• 4 July – Royal Welch Fusiliers Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon attacks a German trench single-handed, and records the outcome in his memoirs.
• 7–12 July – The 38th (Welsh) Division loses so many men in the Mametz Wood engagement during the Battle of the Somme that it is unable to re-group for a year.
• 12 July – Railway worker James Dally is awarded the Edward Medal by King George V for his actions in saving a colleague from falling from the Crumlin Viaduct.
• July – Jimmy Thomas becomes General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, which he had been instrumental in forming.
• October – T. E. Lawrence is sent into the desert to report on the Arab nationalist movements.
• 7 November – Charles Evans Hughes loses narrowly to Woodrow Wilson in the United States presidential election.
• November – Christopher Williams visits the scene of the Welsh losses at Mametz Wood and later paints his famous The Welsh at Mametz Wood at the request of David Lloyd George. ^[20]
• 1 December – Government takes control of mines in the South Wales Coalfield. ^[21]
• 2 December – Miners' wages in the South Wales Coalfield are again increased by 15%. ^[22]
• 7 December
  • David Lloyd George is the first (and, as of a century later, only) Welshman to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ^[23]
  • David Alfred Thomas is created Baron Rhondda. He is appointed President of the Local Government Board. ^[24]

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Aberystwyth)
  • Chair - J. Ellis Williams, "Ystrad Fflur" ^[25]
  • Crown - withheld

New books

• Llewelyn Powys and John Cowper Powys - Confessions of Two Brothers
• Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan) - Tair Stori Fer

Film

• 22 April – Edmund Gwenn makes his screen debut in The Real Thing at Last .

Sport

• Boxing : 14 February – Jimmy Wilde wins the British flyweight title at Liverpool.

Births

• 26 February - Joan Strothers (later Lady Curran), scientist (died 1999) ^[26]
• 2 March - Eddie Watkins, rugby player (died 1995)
• 1 May - Glenn Ford, Welsh-Canadian actor (died 2006) ^[27]
• 6 May - Ted Peterson, British baseball player (died 2005)
• 7 May - Huw Wheldon, broadcaster (died 1986) ^[28]
• 8 May - Sylvia Sleigh, painter (died 2010) ^[29]
• 22 May - Rupert Davies, actor (died 1976)
• 3 July - Nigel Heseltine, writer (died 1995) ^[30]
• 23 August - Willie Davies, Wales international rugby union and league player (died 2002)
• 29 August - Rhydwen Williams, poet, novelist and minister (died 1997) ^[31]
• 13 September - Roald Dahl, novelist (died 1990) ^[32]
• 14 September - Cledwyn Hughes, politician (died 2001) ^[33]
• 24 September - W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd), poet and Archdruid (died 2011) ^[34]
• 31 October - Stan Trick, cricketer (died 1995)

Deaths

• 12 March - Llywarch Reynolds, solicitor and Celtic scholar, 72 ^[35]
• 14 March - Lou Phillips, Wales international rugby player, 38 (killed in action) ^[36]
• 18 March - David Cuthbert Thomas ("Dick Tiltwood"), soldier, 21 (killed in action) ^[37]
• 14 April - Charlie Pritchard, Wales international rugby player, 32 (killed in action) ^[36]
• May - John Griffiths, mathematician, 79
• 5 June - James Williams, footballer, 32 (killed in action)
• 26 June - Henry Allan Rolls, younger brother and heir presumptive of 2nd Baron Llangattock, 44 ^[38]
• 27 June - Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer and temperance activist, 78 ^[39]
• 7 July - Dick Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 32 (killed in action at Mametz Wood, during the Somme)
• 12 July - Johnnie Williams, Wales international rugby player, 34 (died of wounds received at Mametz, on the Somme) ^[36]
• 14 July - David Watts, Wales international rugby player, 30 (killed in action) ^[36]
• 30 July - Eveline Willett Cunnington, social reformer in New Zealand, 67 ^[40]
• 3 September - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 26 (killed in action) ^[36]
• 11 September - Thomas Lemuel James, Welsh-American banker and U.S. Postmaster-General, 85 ^[41]
• 28 September (in Bath, Somerset) - Richard Thomas, industrialist, 78 ^[42]
• 7 October - Leigh Richmond Roose, footballer, 38 (killed in action) ^[43]
• 11 October - David Richard Thomas, clergyman and historian, 83 ^[44]
• 31 October - John Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock, 46 (killed in action) ^[45]
• 12 November - Sir Walter Morgan, 1st Baronet, banker and Lord Mayor of London, 85 ^[46]
• 14 November - William Davies, footballer, 61

See also

• 1916 in Ireland

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