1928 in Wales

Incumbents

• Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
  • Elfed (outgoing)
  • Pedrog (incoming)

Events

• 29 March – The Grwyne Fawr reservoir is completed in the Brecon Beacons by the Abertillery & District Water Board, 16 years after the start of construction (work having been interrupted by World War I).
• 12 June – The Welsh National War Memorial is unveiled in Cardiff by The Prince of Wales.
• 18 June – Amelia Earhart lands near Burry Port, becoming the first woman passenger on a Transatlantic flight.
• December – Rapallo House, Llandudno, is handed over to the local council to be used as a museum, as a bequest from Francis Edouard Chardon.
• unknown dates
  • Dr John Williams establishes a hospital at Durtlang in the Lushai Hills (Mizoram) of India.
• The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales is founded by Clough Williams-Ellis.
  • The community of Benedictine monks leaves Caldey Island for Prinknash Abbey. They are replaced at Caldey by a Cistercian order in 1929.
  • Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, buys Gwrych Castle for £78,000.
  • The Cardiff Station Orchestra, predecessor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, is formed.
• Brynmawr Experiment begins.

Arts and literature

• October – Eric Gill and members of his artistic community leave Capel-y-ffin for Speen, Buckinghamshire.
• Sir William Llewellyn is the first Welshman to become President of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Treorchy)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – withheld
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Caradog Prichard

New books

English language

• Dorothy Edwards – Winter Sonata
• Hilda Vaughan – The Invader: a tale of adventure and passion

Welsh language

• Moelona – Breuddwydion Myfanwy
• T. H. Parry-Williams – Ysgrifau
• Iorwerth Peate – Y Cawg Aur a cherddi eraill
• Richard Thomas – David Williams, y Piwritan

Music

• David Evans
  • Concerto for String Orchestra
  • Incidental music for Alcestis (unpublished)

Film

• The Truth Game, starring Ivor Novello

Broadcasting

• Isaac J. Williams presents Travel Talks on Art

Sport

• Badminton – The Welsh Badminton Union is formed.
• Boxing – Welsh Bantamweight champion Tosh Powell dies after a fight with Billy Housego in Liverpool.
• Football – The 1928 Welsh Cup Final is contested by Bangor and Cardiff City at Farrar Road Stadium, Bangor, and ends in a 2–0 victory for Cardiff.
• Yachting – The North Wales Cruising Club is formed.

Births

• 2 January – Dai Royston Bevan, rugby player (d. 2008)
• 1 February – Sam Edwards, physicist (d. 2015)
• 8 February – Osian Ellis, harpist (d. 2021)
• 9 February – Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, solicitor and politician (d. 1992)
• 6 March – Glyn Owen, actor (d. 2004)
• 9 April – Albert Gubay, businessman (d. 2016)
• 27 April
  • Selwyn Hughes, clergyman and writer (d. 2006)
  • Hubert Rees, television character actor (d. 2009)
• 7 June – Dave Bowen, football player and manager (d. 1995)
• 9 June – R. Geraint Gruffydd, academic and theologian (d. 2015)
• 19 June – Ray Powell, politician (d. 2001){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/dec/10/guardianobituaries.obituaries|title= Sir Ray Powell|date=10 December 2001|author=Andrew Roth|website=The Guardian|access-date=28 July 2019}}
• 11 July – Greville Janner, Labour MP and lawyer (d. 2015)
• 14 July – Haydn Morris, international rugby union player (d. 2021)
• 26 July – Bernice Rubens, novelist (d. 2004){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/oct/14/guardianobituaries.books|title= Bernice Rubens|date=14 October 2004|author=Janet Watts|website=The Guardian|access-date=28 July 2019}}
• 7 August – Gwilym Roberts, politician (d. 2018)
• 12 August – Roy Davies, cricketer (d. 2013)
• 14 August – Sid Judd, Wales international rugby union player (d. 1959)
• 1 September – Emrys James, actor (d. 1989)
• 17 September – Dafydd Orwig, educationist (d. 1996)
• 23 October – Keith Jones, footballer (d. 2007)
• 20 November – John Disley, distance runner (d. 2016)
• 19 December – Gwyn Rowlands, rugby union international (d. 2010)

Deaths

• 11 January – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, 63
• 21 March – Stanley L. Wood, illustrator, 61
• 14 April – Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 62
• 13 May – David John Thomas (Afan), composer and conductor, 47
• 19 May – Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, heraldry expert (of Welsh descent), 57
• 23 May – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist, 50 (head injury)
• 3 June – Tosh Powell, Welsh champion boxer, 20
• 21 June – Marie Novello, pianist, c. 30 (emphysema)
• 23 July – John Hinds, businessman and politician, 65
• 23 August – Daniel Davies, Bishop of Bangor, 64
• 30 August – Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral, 65
• 6 September – Richard Ellis, librarian, 62
• 1 October – Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, judge, 70
• 3 December – Isaac Hughes (Craigfryn), poet and novelist, 76
• 13 December – Harry Jarman, Wales and British Lions international rugby union player, 34–35
• 29 December – George Boots, rugby player, 54
• date unknown – John Morgan Howell, local politician in Cardiganshire, 72/3

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