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1934 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1934 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – Edward
  • Princess of Wales – vacant
  • Archbishop of Wales
  • Alfred Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph (retired)
  • Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor (elected)
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Gwili

    • Events

  • 22 September - At Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, 265 miners are killed in a mining accident. Later in the year, Paul Robeson performs in Caernarfon in a benefit concert for victims of the accident.
  • 23 October - Opening of the Guildhall, Swansea, designed by Percy Thomas.
  • 25 October - Aneurin Bevan marries fellow MP Jennie Lee.
  • Anthracite production in Wales reaches its peak.
  • The Special Areas Act is passed to help areas such as the South Wales Valleys that have been particularly affected by the Great Depression in the United Kingdom.
  • Courtaulds establishes a rayon factory at Greenfield.
  • Tudor Thomas' work on corneal grafting restores the sight of a man who had been nearly blind for 27 years.

    • Arts and literature

  • Sir Henry Walford Davies is appointed Master of the King's Musick.
  • The Welsh Folk Dance Society is founded at Bala.
  • The Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, is inaugurated.
  • Caradog Prichard becomes sub-editor of the News Chronicle.
  • Richard Hughes and his wife move into Laugharne Castle.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Neath)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - William Morris
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Thomas Eurig Davies

    • New books

  • Edward Tegla Davies - Y Llwybr Arian
  • Margiad Evans - Turf or Stone
  • D. Gwenallt Jones - Plasau'r Brenin
  • Jack Jones - Rhondda Roundabout
  • Eiluned Lewis - Dew on the Grass
  • Howard Spring - Shabby Tiger
  • Dylan Thomas - 18 Poems (his first collection, including "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower")

    • Music

  • Harry Parr Davies becomes accompanist to Gracie Fields.

    • Film

  • Ray Milland appears in We're Not Dressing.
  • Gareth Hughes appears in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.
  • Yr Ail Fordaith Gymraeg (Second Welsh Cruise), a silent film made by Ifan ab Owen Edwards focusing on the activities of Urdd Gobaith Cymru (with Welsh-language titles)

    • Sport

  • Badminton - Wales is a founder member of the Badminton World Federation.
  • Cricket - Cyril Walters becomes the first Welshman to captain an England Test team
  • Rugby Union
  • 10 March - Wales defeat Ireland 13–0 in a game held at St Helen's, Swansea

    • Births

  • 11 February - Mary Quant, fashion designer
  • 25 February - Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, politician
  • 28 March - Graham Vearncombe, footballer (died 1993)
  • 18 April - Brynmor John, politician (died 1988)
  • 16 May - Kenneth O. Morgan, Baron Morgan, historian
  • 10 May - Cliff Wilson, snooker player (died 1994)
  • 13 June - Gren, cartoonist (died 2007)
  • 5 July - Philip Madoc, actor
  • 13 July - Dai Ward, footballer (died 1996)
  • 6 August - Billy Boston, rugby league footballer
  • 20 September – David Marquand, academic and former MP
  • 1 November - William Mathias, composer (died 1992)
  • 24 November - Dewi Zephaniah Phillips, philosopher (died 2006)

    • Deaths

  • 6 January - Dorothy Edwards, novelist, 30 (suicide)
  • 23 January - Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, owner of Bodnant, 83
  • 4 February - Harry Wetter, Welsh international rugby union player, 52
  • 25 February - Daniel Protheroe, composer and conductor, 67
  • 24 May - William Nathaniel Jones, politician, 76
  • 14 June - George Thomas, Wales international rugby union player, 76/77
  • 19 July - Christopher Williams, painter, 61
  • 28 August - Edgeworth David, geologist and explorer, 76
  • 11 October - John Kelt Edwards, cartoonist, 59
  • 13 November - Sir Evan Vincent Evans, journalist, 81

    • References

    1934 in Wales Wikipedia
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