1916 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1916 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Edward
- Princess of Wales - vacant
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed
Lloyd George in 1916
Events
- 1 January
- The Port Eynon lifeboat capsizes and three crew members die.
- The Royal laryngologist John Milsom Rees is knighted.
- 8 January – The Apostolic Church in Wales is established.
- 2 February – Submarine HMS J4 is launched at Pembroke Dock.
- 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.[1]
- 3 March – Light cruiser HMS Cambrian is launched at Pembroke Dock.
- 31 May–1 June – Hugh Evan-Thomas distinguishes himself in the Battle of Jutland;[2] he is later knighted.
- 11 June – Frongoch internment camp is used as a place of imprisonment for approximately 1,800 Irishmen involved with the Easter Rising.[3]
- 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.[4]
- 7 December
- David Lloyd George is the first (and, as of a century later, only) Welshman to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[5]
- David Alfred Thomas is created Baron Rhondda. He is appointed President of the Local Government Board.[6]
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Aberystwyth)
- Chair - J. Ellis Williams, "Ystrad Fflur"[7]
- 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)
- 2 March - Eddie Watkins, rugby player (died 1995)
- 29 April - William Squire, actor (died 1989)
- 1 May - Glenn Ford, Welsh-Canadian actor (died 2006)[8]
- 6 May - Ted Peterson, British baseball player (died 2005)
- 7 May - Huw Wheldon, broadcaster (died 1986)[9]
- 8 May - Sylvia Sleigh, painter (died 2010)
- 22 May - Rupert Davies, actor (died 1976)
- 3 July - Nigel Heseltine, writer (died 1995)
- 23 August - Willie Davies, Wales international rugby union and league player (died 2002)
- 29 August - Rhydwen Williams, poet, novelist and minister (died 1997)[10]
- 13 September - Roald Dahl, novelist (died 1990)[11]
- 14 September - Cledwyn Hughes, politician (died 2001)[12]
- 24 September - W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd), poet and Archdruid (died 2011)
- 31 October - Stan Trick, cricketer (died 1995)
Deaths
- 12 March - Llywarch Reynolds, solicitor and Celtic scholar, 72
- 14 March - Lou Phillips, Wales international rugby player, 38 (killed in action)[13]
- 18 March - David Cuthbert Thomas ("Dick Tiltwood"), soldier, 21 (killed in action)
- 14 April - Charlie Pritchard, Wales international rugby player, 32 (killed in action)[13]
- May - John Griffiths, mathematician, 79
- 5 June - James Williams, footballer, 32 (killed in action)
- 26 June - Henry Allan Rolls, heir presumptive to 2nd Baron Llangattock, 44
- 27 June - Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer and temperance activist, 78[14]
- 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)[13]
- 14 July - David Watts, Wales international rugby player, 30 (killed in action)[13]
- 30 July - Eveline Willett Cunnington, social reformer in New Zealand, 67
- 3 September - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 26 (killed in action)[13]
- 11 September - Thomas Lemuel James, Welsh-American banker and U.S. Postmaster-General (born 1831)
- 28 September (in Bath, Somerset) - Richard Thomas, industrialist, 78[15]
- 7 October - Leigh Richmond Roose, footballer, 38 (killed in action)
- 11 October - David Richard Thomas, historian, 83
- 31 October - John Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock, 46 (killed in action)[16]
- 12 November - Sir Walter Morgan, 1st Baronet, banker and Lord Mayor of London, 85 [17]
- 14 November - William Davies, footballer, 61
References
- Jenkins, David (2002). A Refuge in Peace and War: The National Library of Wales to 1952. Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales. p. 168. ISBN 1-86225-034-0.
- Andrew Gordon (1996). The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command. London: John Murray. ISBN 0-7195-5076-9.
- "Frongoch". Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- "Mametz Wood: The Welsh attack and its legacy". BBC News. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- Gilbert, Bentley (1992). David Lloyd George: A Political Life: Organizer of Victory, 1912–1916. Ohio State University Press.
- South Wales Daily News, 4 July 1918
- "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
- "Leading man Glenn Ford dies at 90". The Independent. 31 August 2006. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. Society. 1985. p. 340.
- Donald Evans (16 December 1991). Rhydwen Williams. University of Wales Press. p. 6.
- Philip Howard, "Dahl, Roald (1916–1990)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Jones, David Lewis. "Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- Robin Turner (25 May 2014). "World War One: The Wales rugby internationals who died on the battlefield". WalesOnline. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- William Llewelyn Davies. "REES, SARAH JANE (Cranogwen; 1839-1916), schoolmistress, poet, editor, temperance advocate". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- Watkin William Price. "THOMAS, RICHARD (1838-1916), industrialist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
- Obituary, The Times 2 November 1916; Issue 41314
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORGAN, Sir WALTER VAUGHAN (1831-1916), lord mayor of London". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
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