1932 in Wales

1932 in Wales

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1932 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland

Other events of 1932

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1932 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 - Gwili

Events

• 25 January - Leif Jones is created Baron Rhayader.
• 16 September - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" of the giant Hollywood sign.
• Plaid Cymru adopts self-government as its official policy.
• The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl, is built.
• Hilary Marquand’s economic surveys of South Wales highlight the depressed conditions in the area during the Great Depression in the United Kingdom.

Arts and literature

• Frank Brangwyn completes the Empire Panels.
• Welsh-language newspaper Y Cymro is launched.
• The Davies sisters launch the Gregynog Festival, which lasts until 1938.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Port Talbot)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - D. J. Davies
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Thomas Eurig Davies

New books

• Richard Ithamar Aaron - Hanes Athroniaeth
• T. H. Parry-Williams - Canu Rhydd Cynnar
• Howard Spring - Darkie and Co.
• David Walters (Eurof) - Pwerau'r Deufyd

Music

• W. Bradwen - Mab yr ystorm

Film

• June 13 - Port Talbot-born Peg Entwistle signs a contract with RKO.
• Edmund Gwenn appears in Tell Me Tonight, Money for Nothing, Condemned to Death, Love on Wheels, Lord Babs and Frail Women'.

Broadcasting

Sport

• Boxing
  • February 3 - Jack Petersen beats Dick Power to take the Welsh heavyweight title.
  • May 23 - Jack Petersen wins the British light-heavyweight title.
  • July 12 - Jack Petersen wins the British heavyweight title.

Births

• March 20 - Garfield Owen, Wales dual-code rugby international
• April 6 - Leon Eagles, actor
• May 28 - John Savage, future prime minister of Nova Scotia
• May 30 - Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, politician
• June 30 - Derek Tapscott, footballer (d. 2008)
• August 31 - Colin Gale, footballer (d. 2008)
• September 9 - Alice Thomas Ellis, novelist
• October 8 - Ray Reardon, snooker player
• October 18 - Don Devereux, dual-code rugby player (died 1995)
• October 24 - Allan Rogers, politician
• November 16 - Onllwyn Brace, Wales rugby union captain
• November 21 - Alvan Williams, footballer (d.2003)
• December 7 - Elystan Morgan, politician
• December 15 - John Meurig Thomas, chemist
• date unknown
  • Richard Cyril Hughes, historian

Deaths

• February 27 - Dicky Owen, Wales rugby union international (born 1876)
• March 3 - Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist, 80
• April 10 - Gwyn Thomas, cricketer, 41
• May 14 - John Hughes, composer of "Cwm Rhondda"
• May 27 - M. C. Jones, racing driver, 37 (killed during qualification for Indianapolis 500)
• July 20 - Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion, 41
• July 23 - Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner, 48
• August 30 - Conway Rees, Wales rugby union international, 62
• September 11 - Aneurin Rees Wales rugby union international, 74
• September 16 - Peg Entwistle, actress
• October 26 - William Howell Davies, merchant and politician, 80
• November 25 - John Williams, recipient of the Victoria Cross