1911 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1911 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

February-April - A Welsh Nationalist League is founded, based in Caernarfonshire, to campaign for Home Rule.
23 June - The future Edward VIII is created Prince of Wales by his father, George V.
July - Dockers' strike action at Cardiff culminates in rioting. Five hundred troops are drafted into the area.
13 July - Prince Edward is invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, devised by David Lloyd George.
14 July - New buildings of the [Bangor University|University College of North Wales national rugby union team|Wales, Bangor], opened.
23 July - King George V and Queen Mary lay the foundation stone of the new National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
29 July - Mawddwy Railway formally reopened, worked by the Cambrian Railways.
August - Rioting in Bargoed, Brynamman, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar. Jewish-owned businesses are attacked and troops brought in.
19 August - Llanelli riots: During demonstrations in support of a national railway strike, two men are shot dead by soldiers of the Worcestershire Regiment in Llanelli. Magistrates' homes are attacked and four more of the crowd are killed outright when explosive material stored on railway property ignites.
21 August-5 December - A strike at the British Wagon Company's Swansea works leads to rioting in September-October.
4 September - Members of the South Wales Miners' Federation return to work after a ten-month strike against colliery owners in the Cambrian Combine which triggered the Tonypandy riots, having accepted the 2s 3d per ton payment rate negotiated prior to the strike by William Abraham.
16 December - The Imperial Copyright Act entitles the National Library of Wales to be given by legal deposit a copy of all British publications in specified categories, based on a memorandum drafted by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Carmarthen
*Chair - William Roberts, "Iorwerth VII"
*Crown - William Crwys Williams

New books

Edward Morgan Humphreys - Dirgelwch yr Anialwch
Sir John Edward Lloyd – A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest
John Ward – ''The Roman Era in Britain''

Music

Sir Henry Walford Davies - ''Symphony in G''

Sport

Boxing - Freddie Welsh loses his British lightweight title to Matt Wells.
Horse racing - Jack Anthony wins the Grand National for the first time, on "Glenside".
Rugby league - Merthyr Tydfil RLFC fold after four seasons.
Rugby union - Wales win their third Grand Slam.

Births

27 March - Alwyn D. Rees, writer
13 April - Len Richards, footballer
26 May - Gwilym Tilsley, poet and archdruid
30 June - Alfred Janes, artist
23 July - Idris Foster, academic
29 August - Raymond Bark-Jones, Wales international rugby player
2 September - Jack Petersen, boxer
4 September - John Robert Jones, philosopher
12 October - Iorrie Isaacs, Wales international rugby player
12 November - Pennar Davies, clergyman and author
20 November - Bernard Cowey, Wales international rugby union player
7 December - John Gwyn Griffiths, academic
date unknown - Dai Francis, miners’ leader

Deaths

8 February - Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor, politician, Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire, 63
3 March - Jacob Thomas, Victoria Cross recipient, 78
29 April - Hugh Robert Hughes, genealogist, 83
12 July - Harry Day, Wales international rugby player, 47
13 August - Thomas Thomas, boxer, 31
18 August - Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, politician, 82
28 August - Jack Williams, Wales international rugby player, 28
4 September - Tom Hurry Riches, steam locomotive engineer, 64
12 September - Arthur John Williams, politician, 77
30 September - John David Davies, churchman, wood-carver and antiquarian, 80
3 October - William Tudor Howell, lawyer and politician, 48
14 November - Robert Davies Roberts, scientist and author, 60
6 December - Pryce Lewis, detective and spy, 80
11 December - Rowland Ellis, bishop, 70