1932 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1932 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1932 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - The Prince Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Archbishop of Wales – Alfred Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
  • Pedrog (outgoing)
  • Gwili (incoming)

Events

• 25 January - Leif Jones is created Baron Rhayader.
• 1 March (Saint David's Day) - Members of Plaid Cymru on two occasions replace the Union Jack flying over Caernarfon Castle with a flag displaying the red Welsh Dragon.^[1]
• 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.

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
• Francis Brett Young - The House Under the Water

Music

• W. Bradwen - Mab yr ystorm
• Grace Williams
  • Suite for orchestra
  • Two Psalms for contralto, harp and strings^[2]

Film

• 13 June - Port Talbot-born English actress Peg Entwistle signs a contract with RKO in the United States.
• 16 September - Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" of the giant Hollywoodland sign.
• Edmund Gwenn appears in Tell Me Tonight, Money for Nothing, Condemned to Death, Love on Wheels, Lord Babs and Frail Women.

Broadcasting

Sport

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

Births

• 20 March - Garfield Owen, Wales dual-code rugby international
• 6 April - Leon Eagles, actor
• 28 May - John Savage, future prime minister of Nova Scotia
• 30 May - Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, politician
• 30 June - Derek Tapscott, footballer (d. 2008)
• 12 August – Gwilym Jenkins, statistician and systems engineer (d. 1982)
• 31 August - Colin Gale, footballer (d. 2008)
• 9 September - Alice Thomas Ellis, novelist
• 8 October - Ray Reardon, snooker player
• 18 October - Don Devereux, dual-code rugby player (died 1995)
• 24 October - Allan Rogers, politician
• 16 November - Onllwyn Brace, Wales rugby union captain
• 21 November - Alvan Williams, footballer (d.2003)
• 7 December - Elystan Morgan, politician
• 15 December - John Meurig Thomas, chemist
• date unknown
  • Richard Cyril Hughes, historian

Deaths

• 27 February - Dicky Owen, Wales rugby union international (born 1876)
• 3 March - Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist, 80
• 10 April - Gwyn Thomas, cricketer, 41
• 14 May - John Hughes, composer of Cwm Rhondda^[3]
• 27 May - M. C. Jones, racing driver, 37 (killed during qualification for Indianapolis 500)
• 20 July - Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion, 41
• 10 July - Martha Hughes Cannon, Welsh-born US physician, politician and campaigner, 75
• 23 July - Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner, 48
• 30 August - Conway Rees, Wales rugby union international, 62
• 11 September - Aneurin Rees Wales rugby union international, 74
• 16 September - Peg Entwistle, actress
• 26 October - William Howell Davies, merchant and politician, 80
• 25 November - John Williams, recipient of the Victoria Cross

References

1. Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "The Red Dragon Saga". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 96–106. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
2. Evans, John (2009). Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938. London: Faber & Faber. p. 174.
3. Rhondda Cynon Taf: History of Pontypridd. Accessed 14 June 2014