1937 in Wales

none December 2019 1937 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1937 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1937 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of BangorC. J. Litzenberger Eileen Groth Lyon The Human Tradition in Modern Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=S8YbICxXWDQC&pg=PA92 2006 Rowman & Littlefield 978-0-7425-3735-4 92 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – J.J.Jones Evan David E. D. Jones John James Williams s2-WILL-JAM-1869 22 May 2015 Events 3 February – 300,000 people march in South Wales in protest against the Means test.Stephanie Ward Unemployment and the State in Britain: The means test and protest in 1930s south Wales and north-east England https://books.google.com/books?id=4iLGDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT207 16 May 2016 Manchester University Press 978-1-5261-1232-3 207 May – Tywyn businessman and MP Henry Haydn Jones, is knighted.The Railway Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=LSpWAAAAMAAJ 1988 IPC Business Press 181 29 June – The Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company closes its tramway system.The Tramway Review https://books.google.com/books?id=0WBUAAAAMAAJ 1957 Light Railway Transport League 185 30 June – The Aid to Spain movement welcomes the arrival at Swansea railway station of the first Basque refugee children to come to Wales.Miners against fascism: Wales and the Spanish Civil War Hywel Francis Lawrence & Wishart 2012 x 978-1-907103-51-3 15 July – George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit Aberystwyth to open the new building at the National Library of Wales.David Jenkins (librarian) David Jenkins A Refuge in Peace and War: The National Library of Wales to 1952 Aberystwyth National Library of Wales 2002 1-86225-034-0 256 27 August – Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and 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".Caernarvonshire Historical Society Transactions: (Trafodion) https://books.google.com/books?id=WpYrAQAAIAAJ 2006 61 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.Kenneth O. Morgan Kenneth O. Morgan Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880–1980 https://archive.org/details/rebirthofnationw0000morg registration 1981 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-821736-7 297 The parabolic arched church of Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride, Amlwch, designed by Giuseppe Rinvolucri, is completed and consecrated.Warren Kovach Anglesey in 50 Buildings https://books.google.com/books?id=ivI6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT122 15 October 2017 Amberley Publishing 978-1-4456-7257-1 122 The Urdd launches the first Welsh books campaign. Arts and literature Summer - Literary magazine Wales first published, edited by Keidrych Rhys.https://journals.library.wales/browse/1214989/ Welsh Journals National Library of Wales 9 April 2019 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. Williamshttp://www.eisteddfod.org.uk/english/content.php?nID=425&newsID=207 National Eisteddfod website 6 March 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110523092723/http://www.eisteddfod.org.uk/english/content.php?nID=425&newsID=207 23 May 2011 dead New books Ambrose Bebb – Y Ddeddf Uno 1536 David Jones – In ParenthesisSimon Featherstone War Poetry: An Introductory Reader https://books.google.com/books?id=Sa1O2cdRubMC&pg=PA150 1995 Taylor & Francis 978-0-415-07750-7 150 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)Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UShhAAAAIAAJ 1938 Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1151 Colin Ross – Ostinato Film Ray Milland appears in five new films, including Ebb Tide. Broadcasting 1 February – A new transmitter is opened at Penmon, Anglesey, to bring the West and Wales BBC Regional Programme to North Wales. 4 July – Following the alteration of frequencies at the BBC's Washford transmitting station to 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 StevensRoger Simpson Radio Camelot: Arthurian Legends on the BBC, 1922–2005 https://books.google.com/books?id=I-fJFYKeMAwC&pg=PA12 2008 DS Brewer 978-1-84384-140-1 12 Sport Billiards - Horace Coles wins the World Amateur Billiards Championship. Boxing 15 March - Tommy Farr wins the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles. 30 August - Farr loses on points to Joe Louis. Births 8 January – Shirley Bassey, singerJoan Collins My Friends' Secrets https://archive.org/details/myfriendssecrets00coll registration 1999 Andre Deutsch 978-0-233-99673-8 10 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 21 March – Ann Clwyd, politicianDod's Parliamentary Companion https://books.google.com/books?id=b30NAQAAMAAJ 2007 Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited 978-0-905702-66-7 108 22 April – Julian Cayo-Evans, political activist (died 1995) 26 April – Gareth Gwenlan, television producer (died 2016)Screen International Film and TV Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=pqNmAAAAMAAJ 1983 Screen International, King Publications 450 27 May – Danny Harris, rugby player 8 June Gillian Clarke, poet John Williams, snooker referee 14 August – Brian Curvis, welterweight boxer (died 2012)https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/brian-curvis-zzd6fbzw2fl Brian Curvis 28 January 2012 The Times 16 August 2019 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)Dunlevy T'Cha March 5, 2022 Obituary: Montreal choir conductor Iwan Edwards's 'passion was limitless' Montreal Gazette https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/music/obituary-montreal-choir-conductor-iwan-edwardss-passion-was-limitless March 7, 2022 6 October – David Morgan, cricket administrator 19 October – Terence Thomas, banker (died 2018 in England)https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/14/lord-thomas-of-macclesfield Lord Thomas of Macclesfield obituary Malcolm Hurlston 14 August 2018 The Times 16 August 2019 30 October – Brian Price, rugby player 8 December – Malcolm Price, rugby player 30 December – Saunders Davies, Anglican bishop 31 December – Sir Anthony Hopkins, actorhttp://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/sir-anthony-hopkins-offers-buy-2496680 Sir Anthony Hopkins offers to buy Welsh childhood home WalesOnline 2 January 2016 Robin Turner 5 January 2013 date unknown Trebor Edwards, tenor Prys Morgan, historian Deaths 15 January – Arthur Cheetham, pioneering film maker, 72http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/1774 Cheetham, Arthur BFI 13 February 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20121022132002/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/1774 22 October 2012 2 February – Hugh Ingledew, Wales international rugby player, 71Great Britain The Solicitors' Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=lixKAQAAIAAJ 1937 The Journal 114 April – Jack Doughty, footballer, 71 21 April – Kenneth Morris, Theosophist writer, 57 28 April – Frederick Guest, politician, 61Randolph Spencer Churchill Martin Gilbert Winston S. Churchill: The prophet of truth, 1922–1939 https://books.google.com/books?id=XUc-AQAAIAAJ 1983 Houghton Mifflin 657 15 May – George Thomson, footballer, 82 18 May – Idwal Jones, schoolmaster, poet and dramatist, 41https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-MER-1895 Jones, Richard Idwal Mervyn (1895–1937), much better known as Idwal Jones, schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist David Gwenallt Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 August 2019 20 May – Walter Davis, footballer, 48 (drowned) 5 June – Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant, shipping magnate, 74s6-PHIL-COS-1863 Philipps, Owen Cosby Baron Kylsant (1863–1937), ship-owner David Lewis Jones National Library of Wales 15 August 2019 26 June – Jackie Beynon, footballer (peritonitis) 22 July – Alfred George Edwards, former Archbishop of Wales, 88s-EDWA-GEO-1848 Edwards, Alfred George (1848–1937), first archbishop of Wales Thomas Iorwerth Ellis National Library of Wales 15 August 2019 2 October – Swansea Jack, retriever, 7 22 October – William Penfro Rowlands, hymn-writer, 77 23 October – Stephen Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 72 1 November – William Alexander, Wales international rugby player, 63 25 November – David Lewis Davies, politician, 64 26 December – Dan Beddoe, popular singer, 74 See also 1937 in Northern Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1937 in Europe Category:1930s in Wales