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1943 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
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Decades:
  
1920s1930s1940s1950s1960s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1943 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 – Crwys

    • Events

  • 29 January - In the by-election for the University of Wales parliamentary seat vacated by Ernest Evans, there are three notable candidates. W. J. Gruffydd, a former vice-president of Plaid Cymru who had subsequently joined the Liberal Party, triumphs over Plaid's Saunders Lewis. One of the other candidates is Alun Talfan Davies.
  • 23 October - David Lloyd George marries his long-term mistress and secretary, Frances Stevenson, at Guildford register office.
  • Sir Percy Thomas is elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects for the second time - the second person ever to achieve this.

    • Arts and literature

  • The Welsh National Opera company is founded in Cardiff.
  • Dame Laura Knight paints Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Newport.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys James
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Dafydd Owen
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld

    • New books

  • Idris Davies - The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926
  • Rhys John Davies - Pobl a Phethau
  • Sir Emrys Evans - Ewthaffron: Criton (translation from Plato)
  • Margiad Evans - Autobiography
  • William Evans (Wil Ifan) - A Quire of Rhymes
  • R. T. Jenkins - Orinda
  • Eiluned Lewis - The Captain's Wife
  • Alwyn D. Rees - Adfeilion

    • Music

  • Arwel Hughes - Antiomaros
  • W. S. Gwynn Williams - Tosturi Duw (God's Mercy)

    • Film

  • Ray Milland stars in Forever and a Day and The Crystal Ball.
  • Drama documentary The Silent Village, filmed in 1942 at Cwmgiedd near Ystradgynlais by Humphrey Jennings, is released.

    • Broadcasting

  • Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from a bomber over Berlin for BBC Radio.

    • Other

  • Tenovus is founded in Cardiff and initially, the charity funded a wide range of projects in the local area. Now Tenovus Cancer Care, they are the leading cancer charity in Wales 2

    • Births

  • 13 January – Lorna Sage, academic, literary critic and writer (died 2001)
  • 1 February – Rosemarie Frankland, beauty queen (died 2000)
  • 11 February – Win Griffiths MP, politician
  • 3 March (in London) – Aeronwy Thomas, literary figure
  • 1 April (in Derby) – Dafydd Wigley MP, politician
  • 9 April – Clive Sullivan, rugby league footballer (died 1985)
  • 16 April – Ruth Madoc, actress and singer
  • 17 April – Elinor Bennett, harpist
  • 26 April – Leon Pownall, actor and director
  • 27 April – Gwyn Prosser MP, politician
  • 6 June – Sir Terry Matthews, entrepreneur
  • 7 July – Robert East, actor
  • 2 August – Alun Michael MP, politician
  • 17 August – John Humphrys, radio and TV journalist
  • 24 August – Dafydd Iwan, musician and politician
  • 10 September – Shân Legge-Bourke, born Elizabeth Shân Bailey, landowner
  • 27 September – Max Boyce, entertainer
  • 16 November – Val Lloyd AM, politician
  • 28 December – Joan Ruddock MP, politician
  • Undated – John Beard, painter

    • Deaths

  • 9 January – William Llewellyn Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 70
  • 12 January – Selwyn Biggs, Wales international rugby player and Glamorgan cricketer,
  • 31 January – Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, physician, 85
  • 1 March (in London) – Clara Novello Davies, singer, 71
  • 6 March (in Trevelin) – John Daniel Evans, pioneer in Patagonia, 81
  • 23 March – Commander John Wallace Linton, VC, 37
  • 28 March – Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85
  • 12 April – Arthur Lloyd James, phonetician
  • 17 April – Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), author, 90
  • 8 September – Dai Lewis, Wales international rugby player, 76
  • 15 September – David Samuel, Wales international rugby player
  • 24 September – Billy Douglas, Wales international rugby player, 80
  • 15 October – Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, lawyer, 72
  • 29 October – Frank Hancock, Wales international rugby union international, 84
  • 10 December – Ivor Morgan, Wales international rugby union player, 59
  • 27 December – Arthur O'Bree, Glamorgan cricketer, 57

    • References

    1943 in Wales Wikipedia
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