1957 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1957 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – vacant
- Princess of Wales – vacant
- Archbishop of Wales
- John Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff (died 26 June)
- Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth (elected)[1]
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
- Dyfnallt (outgoing)[2]
- William Morris (incoming)
Events
- 18 January – Nigel Birch is appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury.[3]
- 25 February – Goronwy Rees, Principal of the University of Wales College Aberystwyth, resigns following allegations that he has spied for the Soviet Union.[4]
- 1 July – Royal physician Horace Evans is created Baron Evans of Merthyr Tydfil.[5]
- 6 July – The Royal Welsh Show is held at Blaendolau; the showground is flooded to a depth of 1 metre.
- 16 July – Five people drown in a boating accident at Barmouth.
- 31 July – The Tryweryn Bill, permitting Liverpool City Council to build a reservoir which will drown the village of Capel Celyn, becomes law.[6]
- 8 September – The town hall at Aberystwyth is seriously damaged by fire.
- 21 November – Morgan Phillips and Aneurin Bevan, along with Richard Crossman, successfully sue The Spectator for libel.[7]
- 12 December – Wales gets its own minister of state in the Westminster government for the first time. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan rejects requests for a Secretary of State.[8]
- date unknown – Brecon Beacons becomes the third of Wales's national parks.[9]
Arts and literature
- 5 October – Paul Robeson (blacklisted at this time from travelling outside the United States) addresses the Miners' Eisteddfod at the Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl via a transatlantic telephone link to the miners' leader Will Paynter.
- Elizabeth Rees-Williams marries Richard Harris.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Llangefni)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Gwilym Tilsley, "Cwm Carnedd"[10]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Dyfnallt Morgan, "Drama Fydryddol Rhwng Dau"[11]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Tom Parri Jones, Teisennau Berffro[12]
New books
Welsh language
- Käte Bosse-Griffiths – Mae'r Galon wrth y Llyw
- Islwyn Ffowc Elis – Wythnos Yng Nghymru Fydd
- Bobi Jones – Y Gân Gyntaf
- T. Harri Jones – The Enemy in the Heart
- W. Leslie Richards – Telyn Teilo
- Gwilym Tilsley – Y glöwr a cherddi eraill
English language
- John Charles – King of Soccer
- Rhys Davies – The Perishable Quality
- Trevor Ford – I Lead the Attack
- Dick Francis – The Sport of Queens
New drama
- Albert Evans-Jones – Absalom Fy Mab
Music
- Shirley Bassey – Banana Boat Song (her first chart single)[13]
- Alun Hoddinott – Harp Concerto (written for Osian Ellis)[14]
- Daniel Jones – String Quartet 1957[15]
Film
- Donald Houston stars in The Girl in the Picture.
Broadcasting
- Alun Oldfield-Davies becomes senior regional BBC controller, after several years of successful campaigning for Welsh-language television.
Welsh-language television
- February – Cefndir (first regular Welsh-language programme)
- September – Dewch i Mewn (magazine programme)[16]
English-language television
- Adaptation of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, starring Donald Houston and William Squire.
Sport
- Football
- Swansea-born John Charles transfers from Leeds United to Juventus of Turin for a transfer fee of £65,000 (almost double the previous British record)
- Pelé scores a hattrick against Wales
- BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Dai Rees
- Inaugural Glamorgan County Silver Ball Trophy competition held; Taibach RFC are champions.
Births
- 10 March – Terry Holmes, rugby player[17]
- 19 March (in Birmingham) – Jane Davidson, AM, politician
- 20 April – Geraint Wyn Davies, actor
- 26 April – Edwina Hart AM, politician
- 17 May – Anne Main, educator and politician
- 12 June – Javed Miandad, former Glamorgan cricketer
- 1 July – Wayne David MP, politician
- 20 July – Chris Bromham, stuntman
- 11 August – Leighton Andrews AM, politician
- 11 October
- (in Holyhead) Dawn French, actress and comedian
- Jon Langford, musician
- 10 November – Nigel Evans MP, politician
- 21 December – Roger Blake, actor
- Charlotte Voake, children's illustrator[18]
Deaths
- 6 March – Gwladys Evan Morris, actress and writer, 77[19]
- 21 March – Russell Thomas, doctor, lawyer and politician, 60
- 30 July – William Richard Arnold, rugby player, 76
- 6 June – John Morgan, Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of Llandaff, 71[20]
- 1 August – Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player, 80
- 15 August – Alice Williams, writer, painter and voluntary worker, 94[21]
- 20 August – Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer and admiral, 75
- 12 September – Tom Pearson, Wales national rugby player, 85
- 26 September – Arthur Powell Davies, Unitarian minister and writer, 55[22]
- 10 October – Lloyd Davies, footballer, 80[23]
- 12 November – Wilfred Hodder, Wales international rugby player, 61
- 7 December
- Maurice Jones, priest and academic, 94[24]
- Alfred Ernest Watkins, footballer, 79[25]
- 9 December – Llewellyn Gwynne, first bishop of Egypt and Sudan, 94[26]
See also
References
- ^ John Stuart Peart-Binns (1 January 1990). Alfred Edwin Morris, Archbishop of Wales. Gomer. ISBN 978-0-86383-636-7.
- ^ National Library of Wales (1955). Annual Report ... Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors on the ... The Library.
- ^ The Accountant. Lafferty Publications, Limited. 1957. p. 93.
- ^ Tony Curtis (7 February 2007). After the First Death: An Anthology of Wales and War in the Twentieth Century. Seren Books. ISBN 978-1-85411-450-1.
- ^ "No. 41116". The London Gazette. 2 July 1957. p. 3964.
- ^ Matthew Jarvis (2008). Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry: Writing Wales in English. University of Wales Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-7083-2152-2.
- ^ Alan Watkins (1 January 1990). A slight case of libel: Meacher v Trelford and others. Duckworth. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7156-2334-3.
- ^ James Mitchell (15 October 2009). Devolution in the UK. Manchester University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-7190-5358-0.
- ^ International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Commission on Education and Communication (2002). Education and Sustainability: Responding to the Global Challenge. IUCN. p. 82. ISBN 978-2-8317-0623-8.
- ^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ "Winners of the Prose Medal". National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ Colin Larkin (1993). The Guinness who's who of fifties music. Guinness Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-85112-732-3.
- ^ The Anglo-Welsh Review. Dock Leaves Press. 1980. p. 129.
- ^ Marianne Barton (1979). British Music Yearbook. Classical Music. p. 623. ISBN 978-0-7136-1963-8.
- ^ Jamie Medhurst (1 June 2010). A History of Independent Television in Wales. University of Wales Press. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-0-7083-2308-3.
- ^ Peter Jackson (1998). Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends. Mainstream. ISBN 978-1-84018-026-8.
- ^ "Charlotte Voake - Literature". literature.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Obituary: Gwladys Evan Morris". The Stage. 14 March 1957. p. 10. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ 'MORGAN, Most Rev. John', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 29 May 2017
- ^ Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, ‘Williams, Alice Helena Alexandra (1863–1957)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 20 Oct 2017
- ^ Felice Levy; Facts on File, Inc (1979). Obituaries on File. Facts on File. ISBN 978-0-87196-372-7.
- ^ Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Soccerdata. ISBN 1-899468-67-6.
- ^ Mary Gwendoline Ellis. "Jones, Maurice (1863-1957), priest and college principal". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
- ^ "Watkins, Alfred Ernest (Alf) (Ernie) (Fred)". astonvillaplayerdatabase.com. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ H̤̊asan Makkī Muh̤̊ammad Ah̤̊mad (1989). Sudan, the Christian design: a study of the missionary factor in Sudan's cultural and political integration, 1843-1986. Islamic Foundation. ISBN 978-0-86037-193-9.