1915 in Wales

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• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed{{cite DWB |last1=Rhys |first1=James Ednyfed |title=Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850-1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales |id=s-REES-EVA-1850 |publisher=National Library of Wales |accessdate=2 August 2018 |date=1959}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk{{cite book|title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes|publisher=Dod|year=1921|page=356}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves{{cite book|author=National Museum of Wales|title=Adroddiad Blynyddol|publisher=The Museum|year=1935|page=3}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans{{cite book|title=The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland|publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company|year=1860|page=443}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John William Gwynne Hughes
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West{{cite book | last = Potter | first = Matthew | title = The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present | publisher = Routledge | location = Abingdon, Oxon | year = 2016 | isbn = 9781351545471 | page=149}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone{{London Gazette |issue=28512 |date=11 July 1911 |page=5168 }} (until 13 April); Henry Gladstone, later Baron Gladstone (from 23 June){{cite book|author=Ivor Bulmer-Thomas|title=Gladstone of Hawarden: A Memoir of Henry Neville, Lord Gladstone of Hawarden|publisher=Murray|year=1936|page=197}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet{{cite DWB |last1=Davies |first1=Sir William Llewelyn |id=s-WILL-BRO-1800 |title=Williams family, of Bron Eryri, later called Castell Deudraeth, Meirionnydd| access-date=30 January 2020}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank{{cite book|title=Whitaker's Almanack|editor=Joseph Whitaker|publisher=Whitaker's Almanack|year=1913|page=847}}
• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams{{cite book|title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|year=1925|page=2437}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes{{cite DWB |id=s-HUGH-JOS-1807 |title=Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop |year= |first=William Thomas |last=Havard |author-link=William Havard |access-date=26 October 2021}}
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen{{cite DWB|id=s-OWEN-JOH-1854|title=Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|year=1959|access-date=19 March 2022}}

• January - A memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, in the form of a model lighthouse, is erected on an island in Roath Park Lake, commemorating the support given to Scott's expedition by the people of Cardiff.{{cite book|title=Morgannwg: Transactions of the Glamorgan History Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eh8iAQAAIAAJ|year=1988|page=50}}
• 26 February - The Welsh Guards regiment is created.
• 4 April - Three German prisoners-of-war escape from an internment camp at Llansannan in Denbighshire, but are quickly recaptured.{{cite book|author=Gary Dobbs|title=Cardiff and the Valleys in the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54SuCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42|date=31 March 2015|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-4738-5778-0|pages=42}}
• 23 April - The body of Will Gladstone, recently killed at the Western Front, is re-buried in the churchyard of St Deiniol's, Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales.{{cite web|title=Hawarden – 1914-1918 War Memorial|url=http://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/cofadeiladau/hawarden-wwi_wm.htm|publisher=Clwyd Family History Society|access-date=17 January 2014|date=1 January 2014}} With special permission from King George V of the United Kingdom, he becomes the last casualty to be officially repatriated to the United Kingdom during the First World War.{{cite book|last=Van Emden|first=Richard|author-link = Richard van Emden|title=The Quick and the Dead|publisher=Bloomsbury|location=London|isbn=978-1408822456|pages=131–133|date=7 June 2012}}
• 25 April - At Gallipoli, Able Seaman William Charles Williams of Chepstow helps secure lighters on HMS River Clyde under continuous fire. He is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross - the first such award made to a member of the Royal Navy in World War I.[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3034251/WILLIAMS,%20WILLIAM%20CHARLES] CWGC casualty record.
• 7 May - When {{RMS|Lusitania}} is sunk by a German torpedo, notable survivors include David Alfred Thomas, Viscount Rhondda and tenor Gwynn Parry Jones.{{cite book|author=John Bourne|title=Who's Who in World War I|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nfWEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA285|date=June 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-76752-6|pages=285}}
• 26 July - The Glamorganshire Canal closes between Abercynon and Pontypridd.{{cite book|author=Cardiff Naturalists' Society|title=Reports and Transactions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjzWAAAAIAAJ|year=1971|page=14}}
• 11 September - The first branch of the Women's Institute in Britain opens at Llanfair PG, Anglesey.
• 1 October - For his conduct at the Battle of Hooge, Lt. Rupert Price Hallowes of Port Talbot is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
• November - The 38th (Welsh) Division is posted to France.
• 15 November - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, becomes MP for Cardiff, following the death in action of the previous incumbent, Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart.
• 25 November - In the Merthyr Tydfil by-election, caused by the death of Keir Hardie, Charles Stanton becomes Independent Labour Party MP for Merthyr.
• 4 December - First submarine to be launched at Pembroke Dock, {{HMS|J3}}.
• Welshmen continue to enlist for military service in World War I, including architect Percy Thomas, who joins the Artists' Rifles.
• Sir William Rice Edwards becomes surgeon-general of Bengal.

• August - Clough Williams-Ellis marries Amabel Strachey.{{cite journal|title=Military Marriages: a Trio of Interesting Weddings|journal=The Sketch|publisher=llustrated London News and Sketch|date=11 August 1915|page=108}}
• unknown date - Gomer Berry and William Ewart Berry become owners of The Sunday Times.

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bangor)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - T. H. Parry-Williams, "Eryri"{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair|title=Winners of the Chair|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=4 April 2022}}
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - T. H. Parry-Williams{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners|title=Winners of the Chair|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=4 April 2022}}

• Caradoc Evans - My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales{{cite book|author=David T. Lloyd|title=Writing on the Edge: Interviews with Writers and Editors of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tnkf8bL6BIAC&pg=PA7|year=1997|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-0248-4|pages=7}}
• John Gwenogvryn Evans (ed.) - Poems from the Book of Taliesin, amended and translated
• Arthur Machen - The Great Return{{cite book|author=S. T. Joshi|title=The Weird Tale|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ubE5ylK0GTgC&pg=PA19|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=978-0-8095-3122-6|pages=19}}
• John Cowper Powys - Wood and Stone

• William Evans (Wil Ifan) - Dros y Nyth
• Eluned Morgan - Plant yr Haul

• David Roberts - Y Tant Aur (2nd edition)
• William Penfro Rowlands - "Blaenwern" (hymn tune), in Henry H. Jones' Cân a Moliant

• The Birth of a Nation directed by Welsh-descended D. W. Griffith.

• Boxing - Llew Edwards wins the British and Commonwealth featherweight titles.

• 16 January - David Michael Davies, 2nd Baron Davies (died 1944){{cite DWB|id=s2-DAVI-DAV-1880|author=Gwilym Davies|title=Davies, David of Llandinam (1880-1944), first BARON DAVIES (created 1932)|year=2001|access-date=4 April 2022}}
• 11 February - Mervyn Levy, artist (died 1996){{cite news |author=Levy, Ceri|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mervyn-levy-1347766.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mervyn-levy-1347766.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Obituary: Mervyn Levy |date=17 May 1996|newspaper=The Independent |location=London |accessdate=20 March 2011 }}{{cbignore}}
• 20 February - Mary Jones, actor (died 1990)
• 25 March - Dorothy Squires, singer (died 1998){{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E5sHAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-0748-4|page=210}}
• 2 April - Patrick Gibbs, RAF Wing Commander, author and film critic (died 2008){{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/wing-cdr-patrick-gibbs-air-ace-and-journalist-815380.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/wing-cdr-patrick-gibbs-air-ace-and-journalist-815380.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title=Wing Cdr Patrick Gibbs: Air ace and journalist | work=The Independent|location=London | author= Nicolas Barker | date=25 April 2008 | accessdate=4 March 2009}}
• 9 April - Bill Clement, Welsh international rugby player and Secretary of the WRU (died 2007)
• 13 May - Hrothgar John Habakkuk, economic historian (died 2002)[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1413579/Sir-John-Habakkuk.html Obituary], The Telegraph (18 November 2002)
• 4 June - David Bell, writer and curator (died 1959)
• 1 July - Alun Lewis, poet (died on active service 1944){{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alun-Lewis|title=Alun Lewis | Welsh poet|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=6 July 2020}}
• 3 July - Ifor Owen, illustrator (died 2007)
• 30 August - Lillian May Davies, later Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, fashion model and Swedish princess (died 2013){{cite web |url=http://www.royalcourt.se/royalcourt/royalfamily/hrhprincesslilian.4.396160511584257f2180001074.html |website=The Royal Court of Sweden |title=Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland |access-date=4 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724021715/http://www.royalcourt.se/royalcourt/royalfamily/hrhprincesslilian.4.396160511584257f2180001074.html |archive-date=24 July 2010 |url-status=dead}}
• 4 September - Roland Mathias, poet and critic (died 2007){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/oct/17/guardianobituaries.books|title=Roland Mathias|date=17 October 2007|author=Sam Adams|website=The Guardian|access-date=5 December 2019}}
• 10 September - Geraint Bowen, poet and Archdruid (died 2011){{Cite web|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/geraint-bowen-archdruid-of-wales-who-campaigned-against-nuclear-dumping-and-championed-welsh-2332050.html|title = Obituary for Geraint Bowen|date =5 August 2011|access-date = 1 July 2018|website = The Independent}}
• 22 September - Thomas Williams, politician (died 1986)
• 23 September - John Samuel Rowlands, GC (died 2006){{Cite news|date=7 June 2006|title=Air Marshal Sir John Rowlands, obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1520490/Air-Marshal-Sir-John-Rowlands.html|access-date=22 November 2021|work=The Telegraph}}
• 11 October - T. Llew Jones, writer (died 2009){{cite web| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/welsh/hi/newsid_4120000/newsid_4129700/4129778.stm| title=Colli 'un o eiconau'r genedl'| publisher=BBC Cymru| language=Welsh| date=17 September 2019}}
• 10 November - Leslie Manfield, Wales international rugby union player (died 2006)
• 26 December - Keidrych Rhys, poet and journalist (died 1987){{cite book|title=International Who's who in Poetry|publisher=International Biographical Centre|year=1970|page=259}}

• 6 January - Owen Roberts, educator, 79{{cite news|work=The Times|title=Death of Sir Owen Roberts, a Pioneer of Technical Education|page=6|date=8 January 1915}}
• 24 January - Charles Taylor, naval officer and Wales rugby international, 51 (killed in action){{cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/world-war-one-wales-rugby-7166621|title=World War One: The Wales rugby internationals who died on the battlefield|date=25 May 2014|author=Robin Turner|website=WalesOnline|access-date=14 October 2019}}
• 30 January - Thomas Benbow Phillips, pioneer settler, 85
• 5 March - George "Honey Boy" Evans, musician and entertainer, 44 (cancer){{cite book|author1=Frank Cullen|author2=Florence Hackman|author3=Donald McNeilly|title=Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFnfnKg6BcAC&pg=PA365|year=2007|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-93853-2|pages=365}}
• 21 March - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player, 50
• 13 April - William Glynne Charles Gladstone, Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire, 29{{CWGC|id=671332|name=Gladstone, William Glynne Charles|access-date=30 August 2016}}
• 25 April - William Charles Williams, posthumous Victoria Cross recipient, 34 (killed in action)
• 6 June - John Lloyd, political reformer, 81 {{cite DWB|id=s-LLOY-JHN-1833|title=LLOYD, JOHN (1833-1915), political reformer and antiquary|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=8 February 2019}}
• 31 July - Billy Geen, soldier and Wales international rugby union player, 24 (killed in action){{cite book|title=Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AapEAQAAMAAJ|date=June 1915|publisher=George S. Maddick|page=673}}
• 4 September - David Gwynne-Vaughan, botanist, 44{{cite DWB|id=s-GWYN-THO-1871|title=Gwynne-Vaughan, David Thomas (1871-1915), botanist|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=8 February 2019}}
• 7 September - Robert Lewis-Lloyd, rower and barrister, High Sheriff of Radnorshire, 79
• 26 September - Keir Hardie, Scottish-born serving MP for Merthyr Tydfil (Labour) and pacifist, 59 (died in Scotland){{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/keir_hardie_james.shtml|website=BBC History|title=James Keir Hardie (1856-1915)|access-date=8 February 2019}}
• 27 September - Richard Garnons Williams, soldier and Wales international rugby union player, 59 (killed in action){{cite book|title=Archaeologia Cambrensis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xsg1AAAAMAAJ|year=1916|publisher=W. Pickering|page=358}}
• 30 September - Rupert Price Hallowes, posthumous Victoria Cross recipient, 34 (killed in action){{cite book|author=Paul Oldfield|title=Victoria Crosses on the Western Front - 1917 to Third Ypres: 27 January–27 July 1917|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3YwTDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT803|date=30 September 2016|publisher=Pen & Sword Books Limited|isbn=978-1-4738-8488-5|pages=803–}}
• 2 October - Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, Scottish-born British Army officer and serving MP for Cardiff (Unionist), 32 (killed in action){{cite book|title=The Scots Law Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJYuAAAAIAAJ|year=1921|publisher=W. Green & Son|page=132}}
• 22 November - Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, Principal of St David's College, Lampeter, 53{{cite DWB|id=s3-BEBB-MON-1862|title=Bebb, Llewellyn John Montfort (1862-1915), cleric|year=2001|publisher=National Library of Wales|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|access-date=8 February 2019}}
• 29 November - Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn), Baptist preacher, 69{{cite DWB|id=s-DAVI-RAC-1846|title=Davies, Rachel (Rahel o Fôn; 1846-1915), lecturer and preacher|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|author=Robert (Bob) Owen|access-date=5 December 2019}}
• 10 December - David Jenkins, composer, 66
• 17 December - Sir John Rhys, philologist, 75{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-RHYS-JOH-1840|title=Rhys, Sir John (1840-1915), Celtic scholar|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|author=Ifor Williams|access-date=15 August 2019}}

• 1915 in Ireland

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