List of events
Brynmawr Experiment This article is about the particular significance of the year 1931 to Wales and its people .
Arts and literature [ edit ] Grace Williams – Sextet for oboe, trumpet, violin, viola, cello and piano Ray Milland appears in The Bachelor Father , Strangers May Kiss , Just a Gigolo , Son of India , Bought , Ambassador Bill , and Blonde Crazy .
Mary Glynne appears in Inquest [ 16] The BBC 's Daventry radio transmitter increases its Welsh language output from a monthly to a fortnightly "Welsh interest" programme and includes a regular religious service broadcast entirely in Welsh. 4 January - Harry Griffiths , footballer (died 1978 )
10 January - Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids , politician[ 17]
2 February - Glynn Edwards , actor (died 2018 )[ 18]
4 March - Gwilym Prichard , landscape painter (d. 2015)[ 19]
13 March - Ted Grace , Swansea-born politician in Australia (died 2020 )to 1984.[ 20]
20 March - Orig Williams , wrestler and TV presenter (died 2009 )[ 21]
22 March - Leslie Thomas , novelist (died 2014 )[ 22]
30 March - Emrys Jones , literary scholar (died 2012 )[ 23] [ 24]
7 April - Eifion Evans , church historian (died 2017 )[ 25]
11 April - Lewis Jones , rugby player
30 April - Merfyn Jones , footballer (died 2016 )
11 May - Gerry Humphreys , sound engineer (died 2006 )
29 May – Christopher Evans , computer scientist (died 1979 )[ 26]
23 June - Brian Sparks , Wales international rugby union player (died 2013 )[ 27]
29 June - Howard Morgan , cricketer
2 July - Frank Williams , actor
13 July - Philip Jones , businessman and civil servant (died 2000 )
13 August
15 August - Gwyn Evans , bowls player
1 September - Mair Wynn Hughes, children's author
18 September - Roger Howells , footballer (died 1975 )[ 30]
5 November - John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon , politician (died 2023 )[ 31]
17 November - Dudley Price , footballer (died 2021 )
27 November - Gareth Griffiths , Wales and British Lions rugby union player
29 November - Glyn Hughes , footballer (died 1995 )
25 December - Dafydd Rowlands , Eisteddfod-winning author (died 2001 )[ 32]
27 December - John Charles , footballer (died 2004 )[ 33]
30 December - John T. Houghton , climate scientist (died 2020 )[ 34]
date unknown - Brynley F. Roberts , scholar, librarian, National Library of Wales24 January - George Hay Morgan , politician, 64[ 35]
28 January - Robert Henderson , cricketer, 65
30 January - Sir Garrod Thomas , physician and politician, 77[ 36]
4 February - David Thomas Jones , administrator, 64
22 February - Sir Hugh Vincent , solicitor and Wales international rugby player, 68[ 37]
3 March - Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell , 65[ 38]
13 March
14 April - John Bryn Roberts , lawyer and politician, 88[ 41]
19 April - Evan Richards , Wales international rugby player, 69
12 May - Beddoe Rees , industrialist and politician[ 42]
22 June - Sir Henry Reichel , academic, 74[ 36]
28 July - John Neale Dalton , chaplain and tutor to the British royal family, settled in South Wales, 91[ 43]
7 October - William John Griffith, author, [ 44]
26 October - Edward Perkins Alexander , Wales rugby international, 68
29 October - Edward Maes Llaned Owen , engineer, surveyor and merchant, a pioneer of Welsh colonisation in Patagonia, 85
2 November - Arthur Cook , miners' leader, 47
24 November - Jack Jones , footballer, 62[ 45]
27 December - Alfred Perceval Graves , Irish author settled in Wales, 85[ 46]
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^ British Astronomical Association (1931). Journal .
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^ Alun Roberts (2008). The Welsh National School of Medicine, 1893-1931: The Cardiff Years . University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-2174-4 .
^ Pennar Davies (1983). E. Tegla Davies . University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-0842-4 .
^ Jonathan Coe (7 March 2013). Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson . Pan Macmillan. pp. 321–. ISBN 978-1-4472-4377-9 .
^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1931 . Copyright Office, Library of Congress. 1932. p. 932.
^ Parry, Sir Thomas (1959). "MORRIS-JONES (formerly JONES), Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864-1929), scholar, poet, and critic" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
^ Kenneth Blackwell; Harry Ruja; Sheila Turcon (2 September 2003). A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell: I. Separate Publications II. Serial Publications III. Indexes . Routledge. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-134-81890-7 .
^ Lily Tobias (2004). Eunice Fleet . Honno. p. xxi. ISBN 978-1-870206-65-5 .
^ M Wynn Thomas (1 November 2010). In The Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales . University of Wales Press. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-7083-2342-7 .
^ Bibliotheca Celtica . The Library. 1939. p. 274.
^ Meic Stephens (1998). Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru . University of Wales Press. p. 717. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1 .
^ "Inquest (1931)" . British Film Institute . Archived from the original on June 27, 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2018 .
^ Charles Roger Dod; Robert Phipps Dod (2002). Dod's Parliamentary Companion . Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited. p. 584. ISBN 9780905702360 .
^ "Glynn Edwards, played Dave the barman in 'Minder' – obituary" . Telegraph.co.uk . 5 June 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018 .
^ Harry Heuser (12 June 2015). "Gwilym Prichard obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 20 August 2019 .
^ "Biography for GRACE, Edward Laurence" . Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 1 September 2020 .
^ "Orig Williams: Welsh wrestler" . The Times . 23 November 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2010 .
^ Dennis Barker (7 May 2014). "Leslie Thomas obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 20 August 2019 .
^ John Carey , "Emrys Lloyd Jones, 1931–2012" , Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy , vol. 13 (2014), pp. 273–291.
^ "Professor Emrys Jones", The Times (London), 24 July 2012, p. 48. Gale IF0504333711 .
^ Philip Swann (26 January 2018). "Rev. Dr Eifion Evans (1931-2017)" . Evangelical Times . Retrieved 20 August 2019 .
^ Parapsychology Review . Parapsychology Foundation. 1980. p. 16.
^ "Obituary: W Bro Brian Anthonie Sparks MBE" . Bridgend Masonic Trust . 30 June 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2021 .
^ Ian Evans, "Roy Evans obituary ", The Guardian , 16 December 2015
^ "The Very Rev. Gareth Lewis", The Times 19 June 1997.
^ Stephens, Meic (2008). Necrologies : a book of Welsh obituaries . Bridgend, Wales: Seren. p. 143. ISBN 9781854114761 .
^ Charles Roger Dod; Robert Phipps Dod (2001). Dod's Parliamentary Companion . Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited. p. 663. ISBN 9780905702339 .
^ "Rowlands, David Heslin [Dafydd] (1931–2001), Welsh-language poet and essayist" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/75797 . Retrieved 7 April 2020 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Brian Glanville (23 February 2004). "John Charles" . The Guardian . Retrieved 20 August 2019 .
^ Houghton, J. T. (2013). In the eye of the storm : the autobiography of Sir John Houghton . Oxford: Lion. p. 22. ISBN 9780745955841 .
^ "Obituary". Gas Journal : 199. 28 January 1931.
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^ Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review . Justice of the Peace, Ltd. 1931. p. 141.
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^ National Library of Wales (1929). Annual Report - National Library of Wales . p. 13.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "John, Edward Thomas (1857-1931), industrialist and politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 17 January 2022 .
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Roberts, John Bryn (1843-1931), lawyer and politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 17 January 2022 .
^ Who was who . A. & C. Black. 1920. p. 1130.
^ The Antiquaries Journal . H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 1932. p. 350.
^ Edward Morgan Humphreys (1959). "Griffith, William John (1875-1931), lawyer and politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 17 January 2022 .
^ Clarebrough, Denis; Kirkham, Andrew (2008). Sheffield United Who's Who . Hallamshire Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-1-874718-69-7 .
^ The New International Year Book . Dodd, Mead. 1932. p. 366.