1935 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1935 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents[edit]
- Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor[1]
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Gwili[2]
Events[edit]
- 6 April – Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry.[3]
- 23 April – Morriston Orpheus Choir is founded by Ivor E. Sims.[4]
- 17 June – The first detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar is achieved by a team including Edward George Bowen.[5]
- October – At Nine Mile Point Colliery in Cwmfelinfach[6] 164 miners take part in a "stay-down" strike action lasting 177 hours over the use of non-union labour.
- 14 November – In the UK general election:
- Megan Lloyd George reverts from Independent Liberal to Liberal MP after a four-year estrangement from the party leadership.
- Newly elected MPs include Arthur Jenkins at Pontypool.
- 3 December – Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli becomes the first in the UK to sell beer in cans.[7]
- date unknown
- Ten people are jailed at Blaina and a further 32 at Merthyr Tydfil during a period of industrial unrest in South Wales.
- Penallta Colliery takes the European record for amount of coal wound in a 24-hour period.[8]
Arts and literature[edit]
- Arwel Hughes joins the BBC's music department in Cardiff.
Awards[edit]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – E. Gwyndaf Evans[9]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Gwilym R. Jones
New books[edit]
English language[edit]
- Rhys Davies – Honey and Bread
- Walford Davies – The Pursuit of Music[10]
- Geraint Goodwin – Call Back Yesterday
- Llewelyn Wyn Griffith – Spring of Youth[11]
- Jack Jones – Black Parade
- Eiluned Lewis – December Apples (poems)[12]
- Bertrand Russell – Religion and Science
- Howard Spring – Rachel Rosing[13]
Welsh language[edit]
- Thomas Parry (ed) – Baledi'r Ddeunawfed Ganrif
- Ifor Williams (editor) – Canu Llywarch Hen[14]
New drama[edit]
- James Kitchener Davies – Cwm Glo[15]
- Emlyn Williams – Night Must Fall
- Stephen J. Williams – Y dyn hysbys: comedi mewn tair act
Music[edit]
- John Glyn Davies – Cerddi Robin Goch
- Ivor Novello – Glamorous Night
Film[edit]
- Y Chwarelwr, the first Welsh language film[16]
- Pink Shirts, an amateur film made by the Marquess of Anglesey and his family and written by Peter Fleming, satirizing the British Fascist movement.
Broadcasting[edit]
- April – John Reith, head of the BBC, meets a deputation from the University of Wales and Welsh MPs, and agrees to Wales becoming a BBC region.[17]
- November – The BBC opens a studio in Bangor.[17]
- date unknown – The BBC Welsh Orchestra, originally founded in 1928, is re-established as a 20-piece ensemble.[18]
Sport[edit]
- Rugby
- 28 September – Swansea is the first British club to defeat a touring New Zealand side[19] and becomes the first team, club or international, to beat all three major touring Southern Hemisphere countries.
Births[edit]
- 13 January – Vincent Kane, broadcaster
- 4 February – Brian Davies, animal welfare activist (died 2022)[20]
- 7 February – Cliff Jones, footballer
- 9 February – Paul Flynn, politician (died 2019)[21]
- 27 March – Tom Parry Jones, inventor (died 2013)[22]
- 29 March – Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone (died 2001)[23]
- 8 April – Islwyn Jones, footballer[24]
- 2 May – Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, politician (died 2010)[25]
- 25 May – John Ffowcs Williams, engineer[26]
- 27 May – Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, born in Liverpool (shot by police 1976 in the United States)[27]
- 30 May – Brayley Reynolds, footballer
- 24 June – Garfield Davies, trade unionist and politician (died 2019)[28]
- 26 July – George Evans, footballer (died 2000)
- 1 August – Brian Jenkins, footballer
- 5 August – Kingsley Jones, rugby player (died 2003)
- 5 October – Colin Hudson, footballer (died 2005)
- 23 October – Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno, politician[29]
- November – Ivor Davies, painter and installation artist
- 30 November – Sally Roberts Jones, poet and publisher[30]
- 21 December – Geoff Lewis, jockey[31]
- 31 December – Edwin Regan, Roman Catholic bishop[32]
Deaths[edit]
- 1 February – John Aeron Thomas, industrialist and politician, 84[33]
- 15 February – Tom Reason, cricketer, 44
- March – William Frost, inventor, 86[34]
- 3 March – Caradog Roberts, composer, 46[35]
- 13 March – Francis Vaughan, Roman Catholic bishop, 57 (post-operative complications)[36]
- 20 March – Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68[37]
- 23 March – John Gwynoro Davies, minister and author, 80[38]
- 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)[39]
- 1 July – Bill Evans, rugby player, 78[40]
- 19 July – Tom Jones, cricketer, 34
- 12 August – Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George, 29 (murdered in Manchukuo)[41]
- 21 August – Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician, 94[42]
- 20 September – Teddy Peers, footballer, 48
- 10 October – Samuel Evans, educationist
- 31 October – Noah Ablett, politician, 52 (alcohol-related)[43]
- 27 November – Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer, 73[44]
- 7 December – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist, 100[45]
- 13 December – Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90[46]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Jenkins, John (Gwili) (1872-1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ The Railway Magazine. IPC Business Press. 1988. p. 181.
- ^ Alun Howells. "The Choir 1935-1985". Morriston Orpheus Choir. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ C.S.I.R.O. Radiophysics Laboratory; CSIRO (Australia). Radiophysics Laboratory (1954). A Textbook of Radar. CUP Archive. p. 3.
- ^ "Nine Mile Point". Welsh Coal Mines. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
- ^ John Dallas; Charles McMaster (23 September 1993). The beer drinker's companion: facts, fables and folklore from the world of beer. Edinburgh Publishing Company. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-874201-14-4.
- ^ "Penallta Colliery". Welsh Coal Mines. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
- ^ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
- ^ Library of Congress. Copyright Office (1936). Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1935. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. pp. 1948–.
- ^ National Library of Wales Archived 2014-11-27 at the Wayback Machine Dr Llewelyn Wyn Griffith Papers]. Accessed 16 November 2014
- ^ Meic Stephens (1 April 1987). A Book of Wales: an anthology. J.M. Dent.
- ^ George Watson (2 July 1971). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature:. CUP Archive. pp. 391–. GGKEY:64CF45KC7C0.
- ^ Albrecht Classen (29 November 2010). Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms – Methods – Trends. Walter de Gruyter. p. 1412. ISBN 978-3-11-021558-8.
- ^ Ioan Williams (2004). "Towards national identities: Welsh theatres". In Baz Kershaw (ed.). The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-521-65132-5.
- ^ The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. 2008. p. 142. ISBN 9780708319536.
- ^ a b Thomas Hajkowski (21 February 2017). The BBC and National Identity in Britain, 1922-53. Oxford University Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-5261-1884-4.
- ^ Kenneth O. Morgan (1981). Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880-1980. Oxford University Press. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-19-821736-7.
- ^ John Binley George Thomas (1959). Great Rugger Matches: Forty-one Historic Matches from 1871 to 1958. Stanley Paul. p. 90.
- ^ "Brian Davies obituary: 4 February 1935 – 27 December 2022". Network For Animals. 28 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
- ^ Langdon, Julia (18 February 2019). "Paul Flynn obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ "Tom Parry Jones". The Telegraph. 15 January 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ Trevor Herbert. "Bryn-Jones, Delme (1934-2001), opera singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ^ Shepherd, Richard (2002). The Definitive: Cardiff City F.C. Nottingham: SoccerData Publications. pp. 54–55. ISBN 1-899-46817-X.
- ^ Fryer, Jonathan (19 September 2010). "Lord Livsey of Talgarth obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ Anon (2017) "Ffowcs Williams, Prof. John Eirwyn". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.15677 (subscription required)
- ^ Womack, Kenneth (30 June 2014). "Evans, Mal (1935–1976)". The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four. Vol. 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-313-39172-9.
- ^ "Lord Davies of Coity". The Guardian. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ^ Charles Roger Dod; Robert Phipps Dod (2009). Dod's Parliamentary Companion. Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited. p. 830. ISBN 978-0-905702-79-7.
- ^ International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Taylor & Francis Group. 2003. p. 290. ISBN 9781857431797.
- ^ "Irish Derby 1969". Greyhound Derby. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
- ^ "Edwin Regan". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ The Law Times. Office of The Law Times. January 1935. p. 112.
- ^ Phil Carradice (20 October 2011). "Bill Frost - the first man to fly?". BBC. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ^ Robert Evans; Maggie Humphreys (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 286. ISBN 978-1-4411-3796-8.
- ^ Chris Larsen (1 April 2016). Catholic Bishops of Great Britain: A Reference to Roman Catholic Bishops from 1850 to 2015. Sacristy Press. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-910519-25-7.
- ^ The Law Times. Office of The Law Times. January 1935. p. 228.
- ^ William Watkin Davies. "Davies, John Gwynoro (1855-1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
- ^ "T.E. Lawrence, To Arabia and back". BBC. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- ^ Bill Evans player profile Archived 17 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine BlackandAmbers.co.uk
- ^ "Journalist Gareth Jones' 1935 murder examined by BBC Four". BBC News. 2012-07-05. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ^ C. Cook; P. Jones; J. Sinclair (20 April 1977). Sources in British Political History 1900–1951: Volume 4: A Guide to the Private Papers of Members of Parliament: L–Z. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 258. ISBN 978-1-349-15762-4.
- ^ The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg11 ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Mills-Roberts, Robert Herbert (1862-1935), surgeon, and association football player". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ National Library of Wales (1942). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Council of the National Library of Wales. p. 64.
- ^ Amy Dillwyn (2009). A Burglary: Or, Unconscious Influence. Honno. p. ix. ISBN 978-1-906784-07-2.