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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1926 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
Music
Film
Broadcasting
Sport
Births
12 January –
T. Glynne Davies , poet, novelist and broadcaster (d.
1988 )
[14]
15 January –
Malcolm Davies , rugby player (d.
2011 )
[15]
25 January –
Richard Davies , actor (d.
2015 )
[16]
3 February –
John Davies , cricketer (d.
2005 )
21 February –
Danny Canning , footballer (d. 2014)
2 May –
Clive Jenkins , trade union leader (d. 1999)
[17]
8 May – Sir
Ronald Waterhouse QC (d. 2011)
13 May –
Alwyn Davies , chemist (d. 2023)
17 May –
Tenniel Evans , actor (d.
2009 )
[18]
27 July –
Eddie Thomas , boxing champion and manager (d. 1997)
[19]
30 July –
Gareth Alban Davies , poet and Hispanist (d.
2009 )
[20]
1 August –
Robert Thomas , sculptor (d. 1999)
23 September –
Courtenay Meredith , Wales and British Lions rugby player (d.
2024 )
[21]
26 September –
Catherine Glyn Davies , historian and translator
[22] (d.
2007 )
2 October (at
Clevedon , Somerset) –
Jan Morris (as James Morris), author (d.
2020 )
9 October –
Ruth Ellis , murderer (executed 1955)
[23]
14 December –
Margaret John , actress (d. 2011)
[24]
20 December –
Geoffrey Howe , politician (d. 2015)
[25]
30 December –
Clifford Williams , actor and director (d. 2005)
Deaths
February –
Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn , astronomer and photographer, 91/92
[26]
7 February –
William Evans Hoyle , director of the National Museum of Wales, 71
[27]
17 March – Sir
David William Evans , lawyer, public servant, and Wales international rugby player, 59
[28]
16 April –
William Lewis , mineralogist, 79
20 May (in London) –
Thomas Rees , academic, 56
24 May –
John Williams , royal physician, 85
14 June –
Rees Thomas , rugby player, 43/44
3 August –
Ernest Willows , aviation pioneer, 40 (killed in a balloon accident)
[29]
10 August –
John Humphreys Davies , academic, 55
[30]
20 August –
Billy Trew , Wales rugby union captain
5 October –
Dorothy Tennant (Lady Stanley), artist, 71
[31]
13 October –
Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn) , poet, 59
[32]
4 November –
John Owen , Bishop of St David's, 72
[33]
30 November –
Ellis Ellis-Griffith , politician, 66
See also
References
^
Who was Who 1897–2007 , 1991,
ISBN
978-0-19-954087-7
^ Emlyn Glasnant Jenkins (2001).
"Lewis, Howell Elvet ('Elfed'; 1860–1953), Independent minister, hymn-writer, poet" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 12 April 2022 .
^ Roll of the baronets . Home Office, Standing Council of the Baronetage. 1926. p. 46.
^
The Labour Year Book . Co-operative Printing Society Limited. 1927. pp. 271–2.
^ Timothy Venning (25 July 2005).
Compendium of British Office Holders . Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 503.
ISBN
978-0-230-50587-2 .
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959).
"Vincent family" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 15 April 2022 .
^
"Winners of the Chair" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 3 October 2019. [
permanent dead link ]
^ Nikolas Coupland; Alan Richard Thomas (1990).
English in Wales: Diversity, Conflict, and Change . Multilingual Matters. p. 81.
ISBN
978-1-85359-031-3 .
^ Marion Löffler (15 October 2014).
Political Pamphlets and Sermons from Wales 1790-1806 . University of Wales Press. p. 296.
ISBN
978-1-78316-101-0 .
^
Wisconsin Library Bulletin . Division of Library Services, Department of Public Instruction. 1927. p. 111.
^ Alan Burton; Steve Chibnall (11 July 2013).
Historical Dictionary of British Cinema . Scarecrow Press. p. 316.
ISBN
978-0-8108-8026-9 .
^ John Davies (1994).
Broadcasting and the BBC in Wales . University of Wales Press.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1273-5 .
^ John Davies; Nigel Jenkins; Menna Baines (2008).
The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales . University of Wales Press.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1953-6 .
^
Who was who . St. Martin's Press. 1996. p. 145.
ISBN
978-0-312-29366-6 .
^
"Birth details at freebmd.org.uk" . freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012 .
^
"Richard Davies, actor - obituary" . The Telegraph . 15 October 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2020 .
^
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations . Keele University Centre for Industrial Relations. 2006.
^ Purser, Philip (12 June 2009).
"Tenniel Evans" . The Guardian . London. Retrieved 27 March 2010 .
^ Nat Fleischer.
Nat Fleischer's All-time Ring Record Book ... O'Brien Suburban Press. p. 767.
^
Meic Stephens (12 March 2009).
"Gareth Alban Davies: Poet who combined Welsh and Hispanic interests in his work" .
The Independent .
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 18 December 2009 .
^
"Happy 95th Birthday Courtenay Meredith" . WRU. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2022 .
^ Mary Burdett Jones.
"Davies, Catherine Glyn ('Caryl') (1926-2007), historian of philosophy and linguistics, and translator" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 September 2019 .
^ David K. Frasier (1996).
Murder Cases of the Twentieth Century: Biographies and Bibliographies of 280 Convicted Or Accused Killers . McFarland.
ISBN
978-0-7864-0184-0 .
^
"Gavin & Stacey star Margaret John dies" . Guardian . 2 February 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2013 .
^ Barnes, John (11 October 2015).
"Geoffrey Howe: One of the architects of the Thatcher revolution who became one of the primary factors in her downfall" . The Independent .
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 11 March 2019 .
^
The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine . Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 1925. p. 354.
^
"Obituary: Dr. W. E. Evans" . Nature . 64 (117): 277. 20 Feb 1926.
doi :
10.1038/117277a0 .
^ "Sir David Evans".
The Times . 18 March 1926. p. 21.
^
Aeronautics . 1960.
^
Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth .
"Davies, John Humphreys" .
Welsh Biography Online .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 18 January 2010 .
^
The Spectator . F.C. Westley. July 1929.
^ T. H. Parry-Williams.
"Williams, Eliseus (Eifion Wyn; 1867-1926), poet" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 May 2019 .
^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis.
"Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 May 2019 .