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1937 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1937 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – vacant
  • Princess of Wales – vacant
  • Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – J.J.

    • Events

  • 29 June - The Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company closes its tramway system.
  • 30 June - The Aid to Spain movement welcomes the arrival at Swansea railway station of the first Basque refugee children to come to Wales.
  • 15 July - George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit Aberystwyth to open the new building at the National Library of Wales.
  • 27 August - Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams are released from Wormwood Scrubs to the plaudits of nationalist supporters, having served a nine-month sentence for the arson attack on the Penrhos "bombing school".
  • The South Wales Regional Council of Labour is formed.
  • The Urdd launches the first Welsh books campaign.

    • Arts and literature

  • Summer - Literary magazine Wales first published, edited by Keidrych Rhys.
  • James Gomer Berry becomes chairman of Kemsley Newspapers Ltd.
  • The Prose Medal is awarded for the first time at the National Eisteddfod.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Machynlleth)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - T. Rowland Hughes
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - J. M. Edwards
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - J. O. Williams

    • New books

  • Ambrose Bebb - Y Ddeddf Uno 1536
  • David Jones - In Parenthesis
  • Lewis Jones - Cwmardy
  • Eiluned Lewis & Peter Lewis - The Land of Wales
  • T. J. Morgan - Dal Llygoden Ac Ysgrifau Eraill
  • John Cowper Powys - Morwyn: or The Vengeance of God
  • Ernest Rhys - Song of the Sun
  • Louie Myfanwy Thomas writing as Jane Ann Jones - Storïau Hen Ferch

    • Music

  • Ivor Novello - Crest of the Wave (musical)
  • Colin Ross - Ostinato

    • Film

  • Ray Milland appears in five new films, including Ebb Tide.

    • Broadcasting

  • 1 February - A new transmitter is opened at Penmon, Anglesey, to bring the West and Wales Regional Programme to North Wales.
  • 4 July - Following the alteration of frequencies at the BBC's Washford transmitter to enable it to radiate separate regional services for Wales and the West of England, a new Welsh Regional Programme begins, broadcast from Washford on 1050 kHz and Penmon on 804 kHz.

    • Sport

  • Billiards - Horace Coles wins the World Amateur Billiards Championship.
  • Boxing
  • 15 March - Tommy Farr wins the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles.
  • 30 August - Farr loses on points to Joe Louis.

    • Births

  • 8 January - Shirley Bassey, singer
  • 22 January - Ryan Davies, entertainer (died 1977)
  • 24 January - Trevor Edwards, footballer
  • 18 February - Donald Braithwaite, boxer
  • 13 March - Martin Thomas, Baron Thomas of Gresford, politician
  • 21 March - Ann Clwyd, politician
  • 22 April - Julian Cayo-Evans, political activist (died 1995)
  • 26 April - Gareth Gwenlan, television producer (died 2016)
  • 27 May - Danny Harris, rugby player
  • 8 June
  • Gillian Clarke, poet
  • John Williams, snooker referee
  • 14 August - Brian Curvis, Welterweight boxer (died 2012)
  • 7 September - Clive Everton, snooker commentator
  • 14 September - Fenton Coles, rugby player
  • 30 September - Gary Hocking, motorcycle road racer (died 1962)
  • 5 October - Iwan Edwards, choral conductor (in Canada)
  • 6 October - David Morgan, cricket administrator
  • 30 October - Brian Price, rugby player
  • 8 December - Malcolm Price, rugby player
  • 30 December - Saunders Davies, Anglican bishop
  • 31 December - Sir Anthony Hopkins, actor
  • date unknown
  • Trebor Edwards, singer
  • Prys Morgan, historian

    • Deaths

  • 15 January - Arthur Cheetham, pioneering film maker, 72
  • 2 February - Hugh Ingledew, Wales international rugby player, 71
  • April - Jack Doughty, footballer, 71
  • 21 April - Kenneth Morris, Theosophist writer, 57
  • 28 April - Frederick Guest, politician, 61
  • 15 May - George Thomson, footballer, 82
  • 18 May - Idwal Jones, schoolmaster, poet and dramatist, 41
  • 20 May - Walter Davis, footballer, 48 (drowned)
  • 5 June - Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant, shipping magnate, 74
  • 26 June - Jackie Benyon, footballer (peritonitis)
  • 22 July - Alfred George Edwards, former Archbishop of Wales, 88
  • October - Swansea Jack, retriever, 7
  • 22 October - William Penfro Rowlands, hymn-writer, 77
  • 23 October - Stephen Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 72
  • 1 November - William Alexander, Wales international rugby player, 63
  • 25 November - David Lewis Davies, politician, 64
  • 26 December - Dan Beddoe, popular singer, 74

    • References

    1937 in Wales Wikipedia
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