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1935 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1935 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - Edward
  • Princess of Wales – vacant
  • Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Gwili

    • Events

  • 23 April - Morriston Orpheus Choir is founded by Ivor E. Sims.
  • 17 June - The first detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar, is achieved by a team including Edward George Bowen.
  • October - At Nine Mile Point Colliery in Cwmfelinfach [1], 164 miners take part in a "stay-down" strike action lasting 177 hours.
  • 14 November - In the UK general election:
  • Megan Lloyd George reverts from Independent Liberal to Liberal MP after a 4-year estrangement from the party leadership.
  • Newly elected MPs include Arthur Jenkins at Pontypool.
  • Ten people are jailed at Blaina and a further 32 at Merthyr Tydfil during a period of industrial unrest in South Wales.
  • Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli becomes the first in Europe to sell beer in cans.
  • Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones is knighted and becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry.

    • Arts and literature

  • Arwel Hughes joins the BBC's music department in Cardiff.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - E. Gwyndaf Evans
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Gwilym R. Jones

    • New books

  • Rhys Davies - Honey and Bread
  • Walford Davies - The Pursuit of Music
  • Geraint Goodwin - Call Back Yesterday
  • Llewelyn Wyn Griffith - Spring of Youth
  • Jack Jones - Black Parade
  • Eiluned Lewis - December Apples (poems)
  • Bertrand Russell - Religion and Science
  • Howard Spring - Rachel Rosing

    • New drama

  • James Kitchener Davies - Cwm Glo
  • Emlyn Williams - Night Must Fall
  • Stephen J. Williams - Y dyn hysbys: comedi mewn tair act

    • Music

  • John Glyn Davies - Cerddi Robin Goch
  • Ivor Novello - Glamorous Night

    • Film

  • Y Chwarelwr, the first Welsh language film
  • Pink Shirts, an amateur film made by the Marquess of Anglesey and his family and written by Peter Fleming, satirizing the British Fascists movement.

    • Sport

  • Rugby - Swansea is the first British club to defeat a touring New Zealand side and become the first team, club or international, to beat all three major touring Southern Hemisphere countries.

    • Births

  • 13 January - Vincent Kane, broadcaster
  • 7 February - Cliff Jones, footballer
  • 9 February - Paul Flynn, politician
  • 27 March - Tom Parry Jones, inventor (died 2013)
  • 29 March - Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone (died 2001)
  • 2 May - Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, politician
  • 25 May - John Ffowcs Williams, engineer
  • 27 May - Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie (died 1976)
  • 30 May - Brayley Reynolds, footballer
  • 24 June - Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity, politician
  • 26 July - George Evans, footballer (died 2000
  • 5 August - Kingsley Jones, rugby player (died 2003)
  • 23 October - Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno, politician
  • 30 November - Sally Roberts Jones, poet and publisher
  • 21 December - Geoff Lewis, jockey
  • 31 December - Edwin Regan, Roman Catholic bishop

    • Deaths

  • 15 February - Tom Reason, cricketer, 44
  • March - William Frost, inventor, 86
  • 3 March - Caradog Roberts, composer, 46
  • 13 March - Francis Vaughan, Roman Catholic bishop, 57 (post-operative complications)
  • 20 March - Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68
  • 24 March - Maurice Parry, footballer, 57
  • 9 May - John Goulstone Lewis, Wales international rugby union player, 75
  • 18 May - T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia", 46 (motorcycle accident)
  • 26 July - Albert Bethel, politician, 61
  • 12 August - Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George, 29 (murdered)
  • 21 August - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician, 94
  • 20 September - Teddy Peers, footballer, 48
  • 10 October - Samuel Evans, educationist
  • 31 October - Noah Ablett, politician, 52 (alcohol-related)
  • 13 December - Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90

    • References

    1935 in Wales Wikipedia
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