This article is about the particular significance of the year 1914 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John William Gwynne Hughes Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet 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
Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, Bishop of St Davids – John Owen
Events 14 January - The first trolleybuses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare. 23 February - Light cruiser HMS Cordelia is launched at Pembroke Dock. 11 March - A Welsh Home Rule Bill is introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire; it fails. 4 April - Ystradfellte Reservoir inaugurated. 2 May - South Wales Transport begins operating motorbuses in the Swansea area. 4 August - World War I: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire. 6 August - Pembroke Dock-built becomes the first British naval casualty of the war when she strikes mines off the east coast. 18 September - Welsh Church Act, disestablishing the Church in Wales, receives Royal Assent, but simultaneously with the Suspensory Act which delays its coming into effect. 21 September - William Charles Fuller wins the Victoria Cross for carrying a wounded officer to safety under fire. 14 November - Light cruiser HMS Carysfort is launched at Pembroke Dock. unknown dates A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon. The hundredth intermediate school in Wales is established under the Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act, 1889. William James Thomas, industrialist and philanthropist, is knighted. Pen-coed Castle is restored by D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda.
Arts and literature January - The monthly periodical Welsh Outlook is founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.).
Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales - not held
New books Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a Vow Moelwyn - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4 Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy T. E. Ellis - Pont Orewyn
Drama T. Gwynn Jones - Caradog yn Rhufain
Music David John de Lloyd - Gwlad fy Nhadau (cantata) Ivor Novello - "Keep the Home Fires Burning"home fire burning William Rhys-Herbert - The Bo'sn's Bride (operetta based on a play by Maude Elizabeth Inch)
Film Welsh-descended Harold Lloyd begins his film career. Wild Wales
Sport Boxing 26 January: Percy Jones wins the British, European and World (disputed) featherweight titles. 30 March: Jimmy Wilde wins the European flyweight title. 7 July: Freddie Welsh wins the World lightweight title 14 December: Johnny Basham wins the British welterweight title. Rugby union 14 March: After Percy Jones is targeted by Irish players during the 1914 Five Nations Championship, Harry Uzzell leads his men in retaliation in a game notorious for its on the field violence. Wales win the match, and the Welsh pack are dubbed the 'Terrible Eight' by the press.
Births 28 January - Trefor Morgan, financier (d. 1970) 11 February - Mervyn Levy, art critic (d. 1996) 12 March - Tommy Farr, boxer (d. 1986) 12 March - Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain (d. 1990) 21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (d. 2003) 23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (d. 1986) 18 May - Louis Ford, footballer 24 May Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, (d. 1996) Harry Parr Davies, composer and songwriter (d. 1955) 9 September - Alexander Cordell, novelist (d. 1997) 12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999) 22 October - David Tecwyn Lloyd, author (d. 1992) 27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (d. 1953) 21 November - Charles Fisher, poet (d. 2006) 2 December - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player 7 December - Bryan Hopkin, economist (d. 2009) date unknown - Norah Isaac, educationalist (died 2003)
Deaths 22 February - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 78 4 May - Rowland Griffiths, rugby player, 28 (typhoid) 17 May - John L. Griffiths, US lawyer and diplomat of Welsh parentage, 58 16 June - John Hughes (Landore), composer, 42 (cerebral haemorrhage) 18 June - Abel Davies, rugby union player, 53? 21 June - Morgan Bransby Williams, engineer, 89 23 July - Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41 8 August - Sir Edward Anwyl, academic, 48 22 August (in Swanley) - James Dickson Innes, artist, 27 (tuberculosis) 27 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, 77 17 September - Shadrach Pryce, clergyman and educationalist, 81 2 October - Jack Hughes, footballer, 59 22 October - William Morgan, cricketer, 51/2 27 October - Sir T. Marchant Williams, lawyer and author, 68/9
See also 1914 in Ireland
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