1921 in Wales - Events

Events

  • 26 January - The Abermule train collision claims 17 lives, including that of Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, youngest son of the Marquess of Londonderry.
  • February - Ernest Evans becomes Liberal MP for Cardiganshire, winning the seat vacated by Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, on the latter's elevation to the peerage.
  • 1 April - Alfred Mond becomes Minister of Health.
  • December - Leslie Morris becomes a founder member of the Communist Party of Canada.
  • 23 December - The Maid of Delos sinks off the coast of Dyfed, with 26 deaths.
  • The Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited begins work on the UK's first oil refinery at Llandarcy.
  • Hugh Robert Jones founds the Byddin Ymreolaeth Cymru (“Home Rule Army”), which forms the basis for the development of Plaid Cymru.
  • Cardiologist Thomas Lewis is knighted.
  • John Bodvan Anwyl is appointed secretary of the Welsh dictionary project sponsored by the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales.
  • A. J. Cook the miner's leader, is sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for "inciting to unlawful assembly".
  • Francis Edward Mostyn becomes Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff.

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