1937 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1937 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 3 February – 300,000 people march in South Wales in protest against the Means test.[3]
- May – Tywyn businessman and MP Henry Haydn Jones, is knighted.[4]
- 29 June – The Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company closes its tramway system.[5]
- Basque refugee children to come to Wales.[6]
- 15 July – George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit Aberystwyth to open the new building at the National Library of Wales.[7]
- 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".[8]
- November – A strike over safety concerns at the Ocean Coal Company's collieries originates at Risca.
- The South Wales Regional Council of Labour is formed.[9]
- The parabolic arched church of Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride, Amlwch, designed by Giuseppe Rinvolucri, is completed and consecrated.[10]
- The Urdd launches the first Welsh books campaign.
Arts and literature
- Summer - Literary magazine Wales first published, edited by Keidrych Rhys.[11]
- 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[12]
New books
- Ambrose Bebb – Y Ddeddf Uno 1536
- David Jones – In Parenthesis[13]
- 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)[14]
- Colin Ross – Ostinato
Film
- Ray Milland appears in five new films, including Ebb Tide.
Broadcasting
- Penmon, Anglesey, to bring the West and Wales BBC Regional Programmeto North Wales.
- 4 July – Following the alteration of frequencies at the BBC's Washford transmitting stationto enable it to radiate separate regional services for South Wales and the West of England, the new Welsh Regional Programme begins, broadcast from Washford (across the Bristol Channel) on 1050 kHz and Penmon on 804 kHz.
- Radio programmes include: The Fascination of Brechfa, presented by G. Arbour Stevens[15]
Sport
- Billiards - Horace Coleswins the World Amateur Billiards Championship.
- Boxing
- 15 March - Tommy Farrwins the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles.
- 30 August - Farr loses on points to Joe Louis.
Births
- 8 January – Shirley Bassey, singer[16]
- 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
- 22 April – Julian Cayo-Evans, political activist (died 1995)
- 26 April – Gareth Gwenlan, television producer (died 2016)[18]
- 27 May – Danny Harris, rugby player
- 8 June
- Gillian Clarke, poet
- John Williams, snooker referee
- 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) (died 2022)[20]
- 6 October – David Morgan, cricket administrator
- 19 October – Terence Thomas, banker (died 2018 in England)[21]
- Brian Price, rugby player
- 8 December – Malcolm Price, rugby player
- 30 December – Saunders Davies, Anglican bishop
- 31 December – Sir Anthony Hopkins, actor[22]
- date unknown
- Trebor Edwards, tenor
- Prys Morgan, historian
Deaths
- 15 January – Arthur Cheetham, pioneering film maker, 72[23]
- 2 February – Hugh Ingledew, Wales international rugby player, 71[24]
- April – Jack Doughty, footballer, 71
- 21 April – Kenneth Morris, Theosophist writer, 57
- Frederick Guest, politician, 61[25]
- George Thomson, footballer, 82
- 18 May – Idwal Jones, schoolmaster, poet and dramatist, 41[26]
- 20 May – Walter Davis, footballer, 48 (drowned)
- Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant, shipping magnate, 74[27]
- 26 June – Jackie Beynon, footballer (peritonitis)
- Alfred George Edwards, former Archbishop of Wales, 88[28]
- 2 October – Swansea Jack, retriever, 7
- 22 October – William Penfro Rowlands, hymn-writer, 77
- Stephen Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 72
- William Alexander, Wales international rugby player, 63
- 25 November – David Lewis Davies, politician, 64
- 26 December – Dan Beddoe, popular singer, 74
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-7425-3735-4.
- ^ Jones, Evan David. "John James Williams". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-5261-1232-3.
- ^ The Railway Magazine. IPC Business Press. 1988. p. 181.
- ^ The Tramway Review. Light Railway Transport League. 1957. p. 185.
- ISBN 978-1-907103-51-3.
- ISBN 1-86225-034-0.
- ^ Caernarvonshire Historical Society (2006). Transactions: (Trafodion). p. 61.
- ISBN 978-0-19-821736-7.
- ISBN 978-1-4456-7257-1.
- ^ "Welsh Journals". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ "National Eisteddfod website". Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-415-07750-7.
- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1938. pp. 1151.
- ISBN 978-1-84384-140-1.
- ISBN 978-0-233-99673-8.
- ISBN 978-0-905702-66-7.
- ^ Screen International Film and TV Year Book. Screen International, King Publications. 1983. p. 450.
- ^ "Brian Curvis". The Times. 28 January 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ Dunlevy, T'Cha (5 March 2022). "Obituary: Montreal choir conductor Iwan Edwards's 'passion was limitless'". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ Malcolm Hurlston (14 August 2018). "Lord Thomas of Macclesfield obituary". The Times. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- WalesOnline. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ^ "Cheetham, Arthur". BFI. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ Great Britain (1937). The Solicitors' Journal. The Journal. p. 114.
- ^ Randolph Spencer Churchill; Martin Gilbert (1983). Winston S. Churchill: The prophet of truth, 1922–1939. Houghton Mifflin. p. 657.
- ^ David Gwenallt Jones. "Jones, Richard Idwal Mervyn (1895–1937), much better known as Idwal Jones, schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ David Lewis Jones. "Philipps, Owen Cosby Baron Kylsant (1863–1937), ship-owner". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Edwards, Alfred George (1848–1937), first archbishop of Wales". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019.