1952 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1952 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – vacant
- Princess of Wales – vacant
- Archbishop of Wales – John Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Cynan
Events
- 10 January – An Aer Lingus Douglas DC-3 aircraft on a London–Dublin flight crashes in Wales due to vertical draft in the mountains of Snowdonia, killing twenty passengers and the three crew.[1][2]
- 5 July – Six miners are killed in a mining accident at Point of Ayr colliery in north Wales.
- 15 August – Wenvoe transmitting station begins broadcasting 405-line VHF BBC Television to south Wales and the west of England on Band I channel 5 (66.75 MHz).[3]
- 3 September - Mahmood Hussein Mattan is the last person to be executed at Cardiff Prison.
- October – Following the retirement of Hugh O'Neill,[4] David Grenfell becomes Father of the House.
- 19 October - A small Welsh republican group, Y Gweriniaethwyr, make an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the water pipeline leading from the Claerwen dam in mid Wales to Birmingham.[5]
- 23 October – Opening of Claerwen reservoir, the first engagement carried out in Wales by Elizabeth II since her accession as Queen of the United Kingdom.[6] She first sets foot in Wales as monarch at Llandrindod railway station.[7]
- date unknown
- Lake Bala bursts its banks and floods many parts of the Vale of Edeirnion.[8]
- Pennar Davies becomes Principal of Swansea Memorial College.[9]
Arts and literature
- English actors Richard Bebb and Gwen Watford marry.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Aberystwyth)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – John Evans, "Dwylo"[10]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – withheld[11]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Owen Elias Roberts, "Cyfrinachau Natur"[12]
New books
English language
- A. H. Dodd – Studies in Stuart Wales[13]
- Jack Jones – Lily of the Valley
- Bertrand Russell – The Impact of Science on Society
- Richard Vaughan – Moulded in Earth
- Raymond Williams – Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
Welsh language
- Islwyn Ffowc Elis – Cyn Oeri'r Gwaed[14]
- T. J. Morgan – Y Treigladau a’u Cystrawen[15]
- John Dyfnallt Owen – Rhamant a Rhyddid[16]
- R. Williams Parry – Cerddi'r Gaeaf[17]
Drama
- Saunders Lewis – Gan Bwyll[18]
Fine arts
- Gwendoline Davies bequeaths a large part of her art collection to the National Museum of Wales, including Renoir's La Parisienne.[19]
Music
- David Wynne – Symphony no. 1
Recordings
- Dylan Thomas records a collection of five of his poems, including Fern Hill and Do not go gentle into that good night, along with the short prose A Child's Christmas in Wales for Caedmon Audio in New York.
Film
- Richard Burton stars in My Cousin Rachel.
Broadcasting
- 12 March – Tommy Cooper's TV series, It's Magic, begins its run.
- 15 August – The Wenvoe television transmitter enters service.
- 26 August – Hit radio series Welsh Rarebit transfers to television.
Sport
- Rugby union – Wales win their fifth Grand Slam.
- Summer Olympics – Harry Llewellyn wins a gold medal in the team showjumping competition, riding Foxhunter.
Births
- 9 January – Mike Watkins, Wales international rugby captain
- 24 January – Tony Villars, footballer
- 12 March – Chris Needs, radio presenter (d. 2020)
- 22 March – David Jones, politician[20]
- 3 April – Philip Jenkins, academic and former Mastermind champion
- 16 April – Bob Humphrys, sports broadcaster (d. 2008)
- 21 April – Cheryl Gillan, politician[21]
- 5 May – Andrew Davies AM, politician
- 12 June – Jed Williams, jazz journalist
- 12 August – Robert Minhinnick, poet[22]
- 7 September – Irene James AM, politician
- 18 October – Hilary Bevan Jones, television producer
- 17 November – David Emanuel, fashion designer[23]
- 20 November – Karen Sinclair, politician
- date unknown – Menna Elfyn, poet
Deaths
- 8 January – Arthur Lewis, photographer, 66[24]
- 3 March – John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones, shipowner and politician, 63[25]
- 15 April – Idris Lewis, conductor and composer, 62[26]
- 25 April (in Broadstairs) – Sir John Milsom Rees, surgeon, 86[27]
- 14 May – Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, Mrs Louis Jones, academic, 63
- 31 May – Ifor Leslie Evans, academic, 55[28]
- 25 August – James Kitchener Davies, poet, dramatist and nationalist, 50[29]
- 23 October – Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, politician, 95[30]
- 24 October –Ivor Llewellyn Brace, judge, 54[31]
- 28 October (in Sydney) – Billy Hughes, London-born Prime Minister of Australia, 90[32]
- 11 November – Sir William Llewelyn Davies, national librarian, 65
- 28 November – Ernie George, Wales international rugby player, c.81
- 2 December – Tom Jackson, Wales international rugby player, 82
- 15 December (in London) – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor, 92[33]
- 26 December (in London) – Lyn Harding, actor, 85
- 31 December – John Cledwyn Davies, politician, 83
- date unknown – Llewela Davies, pianist and composer
See also
References
- ^ Yates, A. H. (1953-01-02). "Airflow over Mountains". Flight. 63 (2293): 2–3. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- ^ White, Kevin (2012-01-26). "60th anniversary of Aer Lingus disaster". Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- ^ Pawley, Edward (1972). BBC Engineering 1922–1972. BBC Publications. p. 374. ISBN 0-563-12127-0.
- ^ http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/dna.htm
- ^ Gruffydd, Gethin (13 February 2007). "Welsh Republican Movement 1946–1956: Time Line". Alternative Welsh Nationalist Archive. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
- ^ "Claerwen Dam Opened By The Queen: Birmingham's Link With Wales". The Times. No. 52451. London. 1952-10-24. p. 4.
- ^ "The Station". Powys Built Heritage. Archived from the original on 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
- ^ Reference Wales. University of Wales Press. 1994. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-7083-1234-6.
- ^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 165.
- ^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
- ^ "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
- ^ "Winners of the Prose Medal". National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ The Agrarian History of England and Wales: 1500-1640, edited by Joan Thirsk. Cambridge University Press. 1967. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-521-06617-4.
- ^ T. Robin Chapman (20 July 2000). Islwyn Ffowc Elis. University of Wales Press. p. 18.
- ^ Professor of Sociolinguistics Peter Trudgill (17 May 1984). Language in the British Isles. CUP Archive. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-521-28409-7.
- ^ John Dyfnallt Owen (1952). Rhamant a rhyddid. Llyfrau Cyrmaeg.
- ^ Kenneth O. Morgan (1981). Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880-1980. Oxford University Press. pp. 364. ISBN 978-0-19-821736-7.
- ^ Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died. A. & C. Black. 1981. p. 446. ISBN 978-0-7136-3336-8.
- ^ Sumner, Ann (2005). Colour and Light: Fifty Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Works at the National Museum of Wales. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales. p. 120. ISBN 0-7200-0551-5.
- ^ "Jones, Rt Hon. David (Ian), (born 22 March 1952), PC 2012; MP (C) Clwyd West, since 2005". Who's Who. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.45567.
- ^ "Cheryl Gillan". BBC. 18 October 2002. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ David T. Lloyd (1997). Writing on the Edge: Interviews with Writers and Editors of Wales. Rodopi. p. 154. ISBN 90-420-0248-4.
- ^ Richard Harrison Martin (1995). Contemporary Fashion. St. James Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-55862-173-2.
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
- ^ Who's who in Commerce and Industry. Marquis Who's Who. 1953.
- ^ Williams, Huw (2001). "Lewis, Idris (1889–1952), Musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ The Illustrated London News. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 1952.
- ^ Edward Lewis Ellis. "EVANS, IFOR (IVOR) LESLIE". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ Gwilym Tudur. "Davies, James Kitchener (1902-1952), poet, dramatist and nationalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
- ^ Franklin Henry Hooper; Walter Yust (1953). Britannica book of the year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc.
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 35, 836. New South Wales, Australia. 29 October 1952. p. 24 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Paul Joyner. "John, Sir William Goscombe (1860-1952), sculptor and medallist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2019.