1914 in Wales

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)
 * 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 HMS Amphion (1911) 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"
 * 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