May – Dick Kedzlie, Wales international rugby player, 59 14 May – William Abraham ("Mabon"), politician, 79 16 May – Thomas Powel, Celtic scholar, 76/77 2 June – Sir John David Rees, politician, 67 20 June – John Williams, politician, 60 8 July – James Bevan Edwards, army officer and politician, 86 6 August – Thomas Pryce-Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 60 12 August – Arthur Griffith, Irish-born nationalist politician of Welsh descent, 50 22 August – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster, 33 12 September – George Rowles, Wales international rugby player, 56 28 September – Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain, 65 21 December – William Morris (Rhosynnog), Baptist minister, 79 25 December – Percy Jones, former world boxing champion, 29 27 December – Thomas William Rhys Davids, Pali scholar, 79 See also 1922 in Northern Ireland References