1928_in_wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1928 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archbishop of Wales - Alfred George Edwards
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Pedrog

Events

• 18 June - Amelia Earhart lands near Burry Port, becoming the first woman passenger to fly the Atlantic.
• December - Rapallo House, Llandudno, is handed over to the local council to be used as a museum, as a bequest from Francis Edouard Chardon.
• Dr John Williams establishes a hospital at Durtlang in the Khasia Hills of India.
• The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales is founded by Clough Williams-Ellis.
• The community of Benedictine monks leaves Caldey Island for Prinknash Abbey. They are replaced at Caldey by a Cistercian order.
• Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, buys Gwrych Castle for £78,000.

Arts and literature

• Sir William Llewellyn is the first Welshman to become President of the Royal Academy of Arts.
• Eric Gill leaves Capel-y-ffin.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Treorchy)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheld
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Caradog Prichard

New books

• Dorothy Edwards - Winter Sonata
• Moelona - Breuddwydion Myfanwy
• T. H. Parry-Williams - Ysgrifau
• Iorwerth Peate - Y Cawg Aur
• Richard Thomas - David Williams, y Piwritan
• Hilda Vaughan - The Invader: a tale of adventure and passion

Music

• David Evans - Incidental music for Alcestis (unpublished)

Film

Broadcasting

Sport

• Badminton - The Welsh Badminton Union is formed.
• Yachting - The North Wales Cruising Club is formed.

Births

• 1 February - Sam Edwards, physicist
• 6 March - Glyn Owen, actor (d. 2004)
• 9 June - R. Geraint Gruffydd, academic and theologian
• 26 July - Bernice Rubens, novelist (d. 2004)
• date unknown - Dafydd Orwig, educationist (d. 1996)

Deaths

• May 13 - David John Thomas (Afan), composer and conductor
• May 19 - Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, heraldry expert (of Welsh descent)
• May 23 - Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (born
• August 30 - Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral
• December 3 - Isaac Hughes (Craigfryn), poet and novelist

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