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1931 In Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1931 to Wales and its people. Incumbents * Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph * Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Pedrog Events *3 March - Bertrand Russell succeeds to his brother's earldom. *14 April - A meteorite falls to earth on farmland in Pontllynfi, near Caernarfon. *June - Border Breweries (Wrexham) is formed by a merger. *''date unknown'' **The Welsh School of Medicine is founded at Cardiff, later becoming the University of Wales College of Medicine. ** Nancy Astor addresses a meeting in Cardiff on the subject of recruiting women into the police. Arts and literature * Edward Tegla Davies becomes editor of ''Yr Efrydydd''. Awards *National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bangor) *National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David James Jones *National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans Jones New books English language *Eliot Crawshay-Williams - ''Night in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in 2021 of 3,107,500 and has a total area of . Wales has over of coastline and is largely mountainous with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon (), its highest summit. The country lies within the Temperateness, north temperate zone and has a changeable, maritime climate. The capital and largest city is Cardiff. Welsh national identity emerged among the Celtic Britons after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Wales was formed as a Kingdom of Wales, kingdom under Gruffydd ap Llywelyn in 1055. Wales is regarded as one of the Celtic nations. The Conquest of Wales by Edward I, conquest of Wales by Edward I of England was completed by 1283, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Astor
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. Astor's first husband was American Robert Gould Shaw II; the couple separated after four years and divorced in 1903. She moved to England and married Waldorf Astor. After her husband succeeded to the peerage and entered the House of Lords, she entered politics as a member of the Conservative Party and won his former seat of Plymouth Sutton in 1919, becoming the first woman to sit as an MP in the House of Commons. She served in Parliament until 1945, when she was persuaded to step down. Astor has been criticised for her antisemitism and sympathetic view of Nazism. Early life Nancy Witcher Langhorne was born at the Langhorne House in Danville, Virginia. She was the eighth of eleven children born to railroad businessman Chiswell Dabney Langhorne and Nancy Witcher Keen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Williams
Grace Mary Williams (19 February 1906 – 10 February 1977) was a Welsh composer, generally regarded as Wales's most notable female composer, and the first British woman to score a feature film. Early life Williams was born in Barry, Glamorgan, the daughter of William Matthews Williams and Rose Emily Richards Williams. Both of her parents were teachers; her father was also a noted musician. She learned piano and violin as a girl, playing piano trios with her father and her brother Glyn, and accompanying her father's choir. At the County School she began to develop her interest in composition under the guidance of the music teacher Miss Rhyda Jones, and in 1923 she won the Morfydd Owen scholarship to Cardiff University (University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire), where she studied under Professor David Evans. In 1926 she began studying at the Royal College of Music, London, where she was taught by Gordon Jacob and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Other notable female comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wil Cwac Cwac
''Wil Cwac Cwac'' is a Welsh-language animated television series produced by Siriol Animation for S4C in 1982. It is based on a series of children's books written in the early 1930s by Jennie Thomas and J. O. Williams (including the famous Welsh-language book ''Llyfr Mawr y Plant''; Welsh for ''Big Children's Book''). Both book and television series take place in rural Wales. An English-language version of the show (called ''Will Quack Quack'') was produced for the wider English-speaking market. The first 20 episodes were dubbed in UK English and aired on Children's ITV in 1984, with the remaining 10 following in 1986. In both versions, all narration and characters were voiced by Myfanwy Talog. A US English dub was also made, with Liza Ross narrating, and aired in the United States on The Disney Channel Disney Channel, sometimes known as simply Disney, is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie Thomas
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Moelona
Moelona was the pen-name of Elizabeth (Lizzie) Mary Jones (née Owen) (21 June 1877 – 5 June 1953), a Welsh novelist and translator who wrote novels for children and other works in Welsh. Early life She was born at Rhydlewis, Ceredigion, the youngest of thirteen children, on a farm called "Moylon", hence her choice of pseudonym. Her parents were John Owen and Mary James Owen. She went to school at Rhydlewis, one of her schoolmates being Caradoc Evans. In 1890 she became a pupil-teacher, the need to care for her widowed father preventing her from obtaining any tertiary education. Career Fiction Moelona taught school as a young woman, at Pontrhydyfen, Bridgend, and Acrefair. She moved to Cardiff in 1905. She wrote her first novel (''Rhamant o Ben y Rhos)'' for an eisteddfod in 1907, but it was not published until 1918 (as ''Rhamant y Rhos)''. In 1911 she published two romance novellas, ''Rhamant Nyrs Bivan'' (Nurse Bevan's Romance) and ''Alys Morgan.'' She won a priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jenkins (Gwili)
John Jenkins (8 October 1872 – 16 May 1936) was a Wales, Welsh poet and theologian. Known by his bardic name of Gwili, he served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1932 to 1936. Early life and education Gwili was born at Hendy in Carmarthenshire, the fifth child of John Jenkins, a metal refiner, and his wife Elizabeth. His parents were fervent Baptists and he received much of his primary education in the Baptist Sunday School movement. He attended Hendy Primary School, where he served also as a pupil teacher in 1885–1890. In the late 19th and early 20th century in England and Wales, a promising 13-year-old could stay on at school as a probationer to help with teaching younger pupils. After two years, another three years would be spent learning the profession before taking a final exam, to be paid for at training college to become a qualified teacher, although Gwili did not become one. In 1891 Gwili became a pupil at the Athenaeum School in Llanelli, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Tobias
Lily Shepherd Tobias (1887–1984) was a Welsh writer and activist for suffrage, labour, peace, and a Jewish national home in Palestine. She wrote four novels, short stories, and plays. Tobias was born in Swansea to Polish-Jewish immigrants. She campaigned for women's suffrage, the rights of conscientious objectors, and workers' rights. She was a Zionist, joining first the Foundation of Women Zionists of Great Britain, and later the Women's International Zionist Organization. In the 1930s, Tobias moved to Mandatory Palestine. In 1984, she died in Haifa. Early life Lily Shepherd was born in Swansea, to Tobias Shepherd (born Tevia Rudinsky) and Chana Beila Shepherd. She grew up in Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley. Her parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants, and the family spoke Yiddish at home. Her father had a business selling wallpaper and glass decor items. Her brothers Isaac, Solomon, and Joseph were all arrested and jailed as conscientious objectors during World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morris-Jones
Sir John Morris-Jones (17 October 1864 – 16 April 1929) was a Welsh grammarian, academic and Welsh-language poet. Morris-Jones was born John Jones, at Trefor in the parish of Llandrygarn, Anglesey the son of Morris Jones first a schoolmaster, then a shopkeeper and his wife Elizabeth. He had a younger brother William Jones. In 1868 the family moved to Llanfairpwllgwyngyll where he received elementary education. In 1876 he entered Friars School, Bangor. In 1879 the headmaster of Friars School, Daniel Lewis Lloyd, was appointed to Christ College, Brecon, and John Jones accompanied him there. In 1883 he attended Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in mathematics in 1887. While at Oxford, Morris-Jones studied Welsh books and manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, and attended lectures by Sir John Rhys (1840–1915), the professor of Celtic. Morris-Jones and Rhys prepared an edition of ''The Elucidarium and other tracts in Welsh from Llyvyr agkyr Llandewivrevi A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliot Crawshay-Williams
Eliot Crawshay-Williams (4 September 1879 – 11 May 1962), was a British author, army officer, and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) and Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Lloyd George, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Early life Crawshay-Williams was the son of Arthur John Williams, a Welsh barrister and politician. He was educated at Eton College, Eton, and Trinity College, Oxford, Trinity College, University of Oxford, Oxford. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 26 May 1900, and promoted to Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant on 25 April 1902. Election to Parliament At the 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 general election he stood as a Liberal Party (UK) candidate in the Chorley (UK Parliament constituency), Chorley constituency in Lancashire. He had been employed by Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office from 1906 to 1908. He was elected at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Evans Jones
Sir (Albert) Cynan Evans-Jones CBE (14 April 1895 – 26 January 1970), more commonly known within Wales by his bardic name of Cynan, was a Welsh war poet and dramatist. Early life Cynan was born in Pwllheli as Albert Evan Jones, the son of Richard Albert Jones and Hannah Jane (née Evans) his father was the proprietor of the Central Restaurant in Penlan Street, Pwllheli. He was educated at Pwllheli Grammar School and the University College of North Wales at Bangor, where he graduated in 1916. First World War On graduation Cynan joined the Welsh Student Company of the RAMC, serving in Salonika and France, initially as an ambulance man and then as the company's military chaplain. His wartime experience had a profound effect on his poetic works, to such an extent that Alan Llwyd claims that Cynan, not Hedd Wyn, is the premier Welsh war poet of the First World War. Hedd Wyn's poems relating to the war were written before he had enlisted and he was killed before he could ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David James Jones
David James Jones (22 December 1886 – 23 July 1947), was a Welsh philosopher and academic. He should not be confused with David James Jones (Gwenallt), a contemporary writer. He was born in Pontarddulais and went to school in Gowerton. He studied at Cardiff University and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1915 he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister, and served as a chaplain on the Western Front in World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin .... Works *''Hanes Athroniaeth: Y Cyfnod Groegaidd'' (1939) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, David James 1886 births 1947 deaths Welsh philosophers 20th-century British philosophers 20th-century Welsh writers 20th-century Welsh educators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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