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1916 in Wales, the Glossary

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1916 to Wales and its people.^[1]

124 relations: A. G. Edwards (bishop), Aberystwyth, Apostolic Church (1916 denomination), Archdruid, Bath, Somerset, Battle of Jutland, Battle of the Somme, Bishop of Bangor, Bishop of Llandaff, Bishop of St Asaph, Bishop of St Davids, Boxing, British baseball, Cardiff, Charles Evans Hughes, Charlie Pritchard, Christopher Williams (Welsh artist), Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, Crumlin, Caerphilly, D. A. Thomas, David Cuthbert Thomas, David Lloyd George, David Thomas (archdeacon of Montgomery), David Watts (rugby union), Dick Thomas (rugby union), Easter Rising, Eddie Watkins, Edmund Gwenn, Edward Medal, Evan Rees (Dyfed), Eveline Willett Cunnington, February 14, Frongoch internment camp, George V, Glenn Ford, Henry Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden, HMS Cambrian (1916), Horace Thomas, Hugh Evan-Thomas, Huw Wheldon, Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen, J. H. Thomas, James Williams (Welsh footballer), January 1, Jimmy Wilde, Joan Curran, John Cowper Powys, John Ernest Greaves, John Griffiths (mathematician), John Owen (Bishop of St Davids), ... Expand index (74 more) »
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A. G. Edwards (bishop)

Alfred George Edwards (2 November 1848 – 22 July 1937), known as A. G. Edwards, was elected the first archbishop of the disestablished Church in Wales.

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Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth is a university and seaside town and a community in Ceredigion, Wales.

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Apostolic Church (1916 denomination)

The Apostolic Church is an international Christian denomination and Pentecostal movement that emerged from the Welsh Revival of 1904–1905.

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Archdruid

Archdruid is the title used by the presiding official of the Gorsedd.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath (RP) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths.

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The Battle of Jutland (Skagerrakschlacht, the Battle of the Skagerrak) was a naval battle between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, during World War I. The battle unfolded in extensive manoeuvring and three main engagements from 31 May to 1 June 1916, off the North Sea coast of Denmark's Jutland Peninsula. 1916 in Wales and battle of Jutland are 1916 in Europe and 1916 in the United Kingdom.

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Battle of the Somme

The Battle of the Somme (Bataille de la Somme; Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire.

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Bishop of Bangor

The Bishop of Bangor is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor.

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Bishop of Llandaff

The Bishop of Llandaff is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff.

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Bishop of St Asaph

The Bishop of St Asaph heads the Church in Wales diocese of St Asaph.

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Bishop of St Davids

The Bishop of St Davids is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of St Davids.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.

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British baseball

British baseball, also known colloquially in Wales as Welsh baseball (Pêl Fas Gymreig), is a bat-and-ball game played in Wales, England, and to a lesser extent in Ireland and Scotland.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales.

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Charles Evans Hughes

Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, politician, academic, and jurist who served as the 11th chief justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941.

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Charlie Pritchard

Charles Meyrick Pritchard (30 September 1882 – 14 August 1916) was a Welsh international rugby union player.

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Christopher Williams (Welsh artist)

Christopher David Williams (7 January 1873 – 1934) was a Welsh artist.

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Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos

Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, (14 September 1916 – 22 February 2001) was a Welsh Labour Party politician, usually associated with the moderate wing of the party.

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Crumlin, Caerphilly

Crumlin (Crymlyn) is a town, community and electoral ward in Caerphilly county borough in South Wales.

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D. A. Thomas

David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, PC (26 March 1856 – 3 July 1918), was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician.

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David Cuthbert Thomas

Second Lieutenant David Cuthbert Thomas (1895 – 18 March 1916) was a Welsh soldier of the British Army who served during the First World War.

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David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922.

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David Thomas (archdeacon of Montgomery)

David Richard Thomas or Archdeacon D H Thomas (1833 – 11 October 1916) was a Welsh clergyman and historian.

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David Watts (rugby union)

David Watts (14 March 1886 – 14 July 1916) was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Maesteg.

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Dick Thomas (rugby union)

Edward John Richard Thomas (14 October 1883 – 7 July 1916) was a Welsh international rugby union back who played club rugby for Mountain Ash.

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Easter Rising

The Easter Rising (Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916.

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Eddie Watkins

Eddie Watkins (2 March 1916 – 28 June 1995) was a Welsh dual-code international rugby player who played club rugby under the union code for Cardiff, and later professional league rugby with Wigan.

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Edmund Gwenn

Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway; 26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English actor.

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Edward Medal

The Edward Medal was a British civilian decoration which was instituted by royal warrant on 13 July 1907 to recognise acts of bravery of miners and quarrymen in endangering their lives to rescue their fellow workers.

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Evan Rees (Dyfed)

Evan Rees (1 January 1850 – 19 March 1923), known by the bardic name Dyfed, was a Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

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Eveline Willett Cunnington

Eveline Willett Cunnington (23 April 1849 – 30 July 1916) was a New Zealand social reformer, feminist, lecturer and writer.

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February 14

It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day.

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Frongoch internment camp

Frongoch internment camp at Frongoch in Merionethshire, Wales was a makeshift place of imprisonment during the First World War and the 1916 Easter Rising.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Glenn Ford

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006), known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-American actor.

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Henry Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden

Henry Neville Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden (2 April 1852 – 28 April 1935) was a British businessman and politician.

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HMS Cambrian (1916)

HMS Cambrian was a C-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was the name ship of her sub-class of four ships.

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Horace Thomas

Not to be confused with American lawyer and public official Horace Holmes Thomas Horace Wyndham Thomas (28 July 1890 – 3 September 1916) was a Welsh international rugby union fly-half who played club rugby for Swansea.

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Hugh Evan-Thomas

Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, (27 October 1862 – 30 August 1928) was a British Royal Navy officer.

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Huw Wheldon

Sir Huw Pyrs Wheldon, (7 May 1916 – 14 March 1986) was a Welsh broadcaster and BBC executive.

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Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen

Major-General Ivor John Caradoc Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen, CB, CMG, KStJ (15 July 1851 – 18 October 1933), known as Sir Ivor Herbert, Bt, between 1907 and 1917, was a British Liberal politician and British Army officer in the Grenadier Guards,His name is given as "Colonel Ivor Herbert, of the Grenadier Guards" in 1896 in an article about his grandmother's death.

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J. H. Thomas

James Henry Thomas (3 October 1874 – 21 January 1949) was a Welsh trade unionist and politician.

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John William "James" Williams (15 February 1885 – 5 June 1916) was a Welsh professional footballer who won two caps for the Wales national football team and played in the Football League for Birmingham.

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January 1

January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).

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Jimmy Wilde

William James Wilde (12 May 1892 – 10 March 1969) was a Welsh professional boxer who competed from 1911 to 1923.

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Joan Curran

Joan, Lady Curran (26 February 1916 – 10 February 1999), born Joan Elizabeth Strothers, was a Welsh physicist who played important roles in the development of radar and the atomic bomb during the Second World War.

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John Cowper Powys

John Cowper Powys (8 October 187217 June 1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879.

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John Ernest Greaves

John Ernest Greaves CBE (30 November 1847 – 27 February 1945) was a wealthy Welsh slate mine owner and Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire.

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John Griffiths (mathematician)

John Griffiths (1837 – May 1916) was a Welsh mathematician and academic associated with Jesus College, Oxford, for nearly 60 years.

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John Owen (Bishop of St Davids)

John Owen (24 August 1854 – 4 November 1926) was professor of Welsh at St David's College and Dean of St Asaph.

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John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids

John Wynford Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids, (30 May 1860 – 28 March 1938) was a British Liberal politician.

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John Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock

John Maclean Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock (25 April 1870 – 31 October 1916) was a British barrister and army Major.

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Johnny Williams (rugby union, born 1882)

John Lewis Williams (3 January 1882 – 12 July 1916) was a Welsh international wing who played club rugby for Cardiff Rugby Football Club.

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Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk

Joseph Henry Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, (26 October 1864 – 11 January 1928), was a British Army officer and peer.

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Joshua Pritchard Hughes

Joshua Pritchard Hughes (13 February 1847 – 8 April 1938) was Bishop of Llandaff from 1905 to 1931.

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Leigh Richmond Roose

Leigh Richmond "Dick" Roose, MM, (27 November 1877 – 7 October 1916) was a Welsh international footballer who kept goal for several professional clubs in the Football League between 1901 and 1912.

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Light cruiser

A light cruiser is a type of small or medium-sized warship.

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List of lord lieutenants of Anglesey

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey.

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Llewelyn Powys

Llewelyn Powys (13 August 1884 – 2 December 1939) was a British essayist, novelist and younger brother of John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys.

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Llywarch Reynolds

Llywarch Owain Reynolds (1843 – 12 March 1916) was a Welsh solicitor and Celtic scholar, who collected a large number of manuscripts that are now held by the National Library of Wales.

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Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire.

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Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire.

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Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire.

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Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire.

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Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire

This is an incomplete list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire in Wales.

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Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire.

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Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan.

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Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire.

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Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire.

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Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire

The following is a list of people who have held the title of Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire.

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Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire.

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Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Radnorshire.

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Lou Phillips

Louis Augustus Phillips (24 February 1878 – 14 March 1916) was a Welsh rugby player, who played half-back for Newport RFC, and won four caps for.

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Mametz Wood Memorial

The Mametz Wood Memorial commemorates an engagement of the 38th (Welsh) Division of the British Army during the First Battle of the Somme in France in 1916.

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Milsom Rees

Sir John Milsom Rees GCVO (20 April 1866 – 25 April 1952) was a Welsh surgeon and a specialist in laryngology.

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National Eisteddfod of Wales

The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru) is the largest of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.

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National Library of Wales

The National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), in Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.

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National Union of Railwaymen

The National Union of Railwaymen was a trade union of railway workers in the United Kingdom.

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Nigel Heseltine

Nigel Heseltine (3 July 1916 – 1995) was an English author of travel books, short stories, plays, and poetry, as well as an agronomist for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Pembroke Dock

Pembroke Dock (Doc Penfro) is a town and a community in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, northwest of Pembroke on the banks of the River Cleddau.

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Port Eynon

Port Eynon (also spelt Port Einon, Porth Einon in Welsh; marked on Ordnance Survey maps as Port-Eynon) is a village and community within the City and County of Swansea, Wales, on the far south tip of the Gower Peninsula within the designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Powlett Milbank

Sir Powlett Charles John Milbank, 2nd Baronet JP DL (1 May 1852 – 30 January 1918), was a British Conservative Member of Parliament.

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President of the Local Government Board

The President of the Local Government Board was a ministerial post, frequently a Cabinet position, in the United Kingdom, established in 1871.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.

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Rhydwen Williams

Robert Rhydwenfro Williams (29 August 1916 – 2 August 1997) was a Welsh poet, novelist and Baptist minister.

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Richard Hughes Williams

Richard Hughes Williams (1878 – 26 July 1919), or Dic Tryfan, was a Welsh language writer of short stories, born in Rhosgadfan in the old county of Caernarfonshire (Gwynedd), north Wales.

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace.

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Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth

Robert George Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, (27 August 1857 – 6 March 1923), known as the 14th Baron Windsor between 1869 and 1905, was a British nobleman and Conservative politician.

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Royal Welch Fusiliers

The Royal Welch Fusiliers (Ffiwsilwyr Brenhinol Cymreig) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, and part of the Prince of Wales's Division, that was founded in 1689; shortly after the Glorious Revolution.

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Rupert Davies

Rupert Lisburn Gwynne Davies FRSA (22 May 191622 November 1976) was a British actor best remembered for playing the title role in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based on Georges Simenon's novels.

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Sarah Jane Rees

Sarah Jane Rees (9 January 1839 – 27 June 1916), also known by the bardic name "Cranogwen", was a Welsh teacher, poet, editor, master mariner and temperance campaigner.

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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier.

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Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet

Sir Arthur Osmond Wynn Williams JP DL (17 March 1849 – 28 January 1927) was a Welsh Liberal Party politician.

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Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet

Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet JP KCB VD CStJ (4 December 1862 – 7 July 1942) was an English sailor, yachting enthusiast and public official who was a friend of King Edward VII.

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Sir Walter Morgan, 1st Baronet

Sir Walter Vaughan Morgan, 1st Baronet (3 May 1831 – 12 November 1916), was a British businessman and the 578th Lord Mayor of London.

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Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet

Colonel Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet, (1860–1944) was a Welsh politician and Yeomanry officer.

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South Wales Coalfield

The South Wales Coalfield (Maes glo De Cymru) extends across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen.

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Submarine

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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Sylvia Sleigh

Sylvia Sleigh (8 May 1916 – 24 October 2010) was a Welsh-born naturalised American realist painter who lived and worked in New York City.

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T. E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

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Ted Peterson

Ted Peterson MBE (6 May 1916 – 19 December 2005) was a baseball (English/Welsh) player, whose unparalleled achievements in the sport earned him the title ‘Mr Baseball’.

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The Real Thing at Last

The Real Thing at Last is a "lost" satirical silent movie based on the play Macbeth.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Thomas Lemuel James

Thomas Lemuel James (March 29, 1831 – September 11, 1916) was an American journalist, government official, and banker who served as the United States Postmaster General in 1881.

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W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd)

William John Gruffydd (1916 – 21 April 2011), better known by his bardic name of Elerydd, was a Welsh Baptist minister and poet who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales between 1984 and 1987.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Watkin Williams (bishop)

Watkin Herbert Williams (22 August 1845 – 19 November 1944) was Dean of St Asaph from 1892 to 1899.

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Welsh people

The Welsh (Cymry) are an ethnic group native to Wales.

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Western Mail (Wales)

The Western Mail is a daily newspaper published by Media Wales Ltd in Cardiff, Wales owned by the UK's largest newspaper company, Reach plc.

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William Cornwallis-West

William Cornwallis Cornwallis-West VD JP (20 March 1835 – 4 July 1917), was a British landowner, politician for seven years from 1885 and raised the 6th (Ruthin) Denbighshire Rifle Volunteer Corps followed by further ceremonial duties in the wider territorial army in Wales.

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William Henry Davies (January/March 1854Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. – 14 November 1916) was a Welsh amateur footballer who made four appearances for the Wales national football team in the 1870s and 1880s, and scored his country's first international goal.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_in_Wales

1916 in Wales, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

1910s in Wales

1916 by country

1916 in Europe

1916 in the United Kingdom

References