1928 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
• *Elfed
• *Pedrog

  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.
• 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.
• Dr John Williams establishes a hospital at Durtlang in the Lushai Hills 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
• 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
• Richard Thomas – David Williams, y Piwritan

  Music

• David Evans – Incidental music for Alcestis

  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
• 1 February – Sam Edwards, physicist
• 8 February – Osian Ellis, harpist
• 9 February – Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, solicitor and politician
• 6 March – Glyn Owen, actor
• 9 April – Albert Gubay, businessman
• 27 April
• *Selwyn Hughes, clergyman and writer
• *Hubert Rees, television character actor
• 7 June – Dave Bowen, football player and manager
• 9 June – R. Geraint Gruffydd, academic and theologian
• 19 June – Ray Powell, politician
• 26 July – Bernice Rubens, novelist
• 7 August – Gwilym Roberts, politician
• 12 August – Roy Davies, cricketer
• 14 August – Sid Judd, Wales international rugby union player
• 1 September – Emrys James, actor
• 17 September – Dafydd Orwig, educationist
• 23 October – Keith Jones, footballer
• 20 November – John Disley, distance runner
• 19 December – Gwyn Rowlands, rugby union international

  Deaths

• 11 January – Joseph Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, 63
• 21 March – Stanley L. Wood, illustrator, 61/2
• 14 April – Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 62
• 13 May – David John Thomas, composer and conductor, 47
• 19 May – Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, heraldry expert, 57
• 23 May – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist, 50
• 2 June – Tosh Powell, Welsh champion boxer, 20
• 21 June – Marie Novello, pianist, c. 30
• 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
• 3 December – Isaac Hughes, 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