1957 in Wales

none 1957 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1957 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1957 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Minister of Welsh Affairs – Henry BrookeThomas Glyn Watkin The Legal History of Wales University of Wales Press 2012 192 Archbishop of Wales John Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff (died 26 June)s2-MORG-JOH-1886 Morgan, John (1886-1957), Archbishop of Wales Mary Gwendoline Ellis 2001 6 June 2022 Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth (elected)John Stuart Peart-Binns Alfred Edwin Morris, Archbishop of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=hT2gAAAAMAAJ 1 January 1990 Gomer 978-0-86383-636-7 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales Dyfnallt (outgoing)National Library of Wales Annual Report – Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors https://books.google.com/books?id=sC0jAQAAIAAJ 1955 The Library William Morris (incoming)https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=former-home-of-poet-william-morris-caernarfon Former home of poet William Morris, Caernarfon HistoryPoints 6 June 2022 Events 18 January – Nigel Birch is appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury.The Accountant https://books.google.com/books?id=5toWAQAAMAAJ 1957 Lafferty Publications, Limited 93 25 February – Goronwy Rees, Principal of the University of Wales College Aberystwyth, resigns following allegations that he has spied for the Soviet Union.Tony Curtis After the First Death: An Anthology of Wales and War in the Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=ncllAAAAMAAJ 7 February 2007 Seren Books 978-1-85411-450-1 28 February – Carmarthen by-election is held following the death of Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris the previous year. The Liberal Party lose the seat to Labour's Lady Megan Lloyd George, herself a former Liberal MP.Craig F. W. S. British parliamentary Election Results 1950-1970 1971 Political Reference Publications Chichester 0 900178 02 7 570 1 July – Royal physician Horace Evans is created 1st Baron Evans of Merthyr Tydfil.41116 2 July 1957 3964 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.Matthew Jarvis Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry: Writing Wales in English https://books.google.com/books?id=lo0fAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2152-2 153 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.Alan Watkins A slight case of libel: Meacher v Trelford and others https://archive.org/details/slightcaseoflibe0000watk registration 1 January 1990 Duckworth 978-0-7156-2334-3 20 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.James Mitchell Devolution in the UK https://books.google.com/books?id=w4QNAQAAMAAJ 15 October 2009 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-5358-0 51 date unknown – Brecon Beacons becomes the third of Wales's national parks.International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Commission on Education and Communication Education and Sustainability: Responding to the Global Challenge https://books.google.com/books?id=q18nBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA82 2002 IUCN 978-2-8317-0623-8 82 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. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Llangefni) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Gwilym Tilsley, "Cwm Carnedd"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 7 November 2019 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Dyfnallt Morgan, "Drama Fydryddol Rhwng Dau"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 7 November 2019 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Tom Parri Jones, Teisennau Berffrohttps://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-prose-medal Winners of the Prose Medal National Eisteddfod of Wales 7 November 2019 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194428/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-prose-medal dead 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 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 T. Harri Jones – The Enemy in the Heart New drama Albert Evans-Jones – Absalom Fy Mab Music Shirley Bassey – Banana Boat Song (her first chart single)Colin Larkin The Guinness who's who of fifties music https://books.google.com/books?id=uZem6VyBfjsC 1993 Guinness Publishing 978-0-85112-732-3 33 Alun Hoddinott – Harp Concerto (written for Osian Ellis)The Anglo-Welsh Review https://books.google.com/books?id=5NM7AQAAIAAJ 1980 Dock Leaves Press 129 Daniel Jones – String Quartet 1957Marianne Barton British Music Yearbook https://books.google.com/books?id=GbU3AAAAMAAJ 1979 Classical Music 978-0-7136-1963-8 623 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)Jamie Medhurst A History of Independent Television in Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=YXyvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA29 1 June 2010 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2308-3 29– 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 ReesBBC Wales Sport Personality winners https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 BBC Sport 29 July 2021 Inaugural Glamorgan County Silver Ball Trophy competition held; Taibach RFC are champions. Births 10 March – Terry Holmes, rugby playerPeter Jackson Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends https://books.google.com/books?id=JqQeMae6VroC 1998 Mainstream 978-1-84018-026-8 19 March (in Birmingham) – Jane Davidson AM, politician 20 April – Geraint Wyn Davies, actor 26 April – Edwina Hart AM, politician 8 May – Eddie Butler, rugby union player and commentator (died 2022)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/09/16/eddie-butler-wales-rugby-union-international-who-went-succeed/ Eddie Butler, Wales rugby union international who went on to succeed Bill McLaren as the BBC’s ‘voice of rugby’ – obituary 16 September 2022 The Telegraph 17 September 2022 17 May – Anne Main, educator and politician 12 June – Javed Miandad, Glamorgan cricketer 1 July – Wayne David MP, politician 20 July – Chris Bromham, stuntman 11 August – Leighton Andrews AM, politician 11 September – Julie Williams, neuropsychological geneticist and Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales 11 October (in Holyhead) Dawn French, actress and comedian Jon Langford, musician 19 October – Karl Wallinger, folk rock songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (died 2024) 10 November – Nigel Evans MP, politician 21 December – Roger Blake, actor Charlotte Voake, children's illustratorCharlotte Voake - Literature https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/charlotte-voake literature.britishcouncil.org 8 January 2020 Deaths 6 March – Gwladys Evan Morris, actress and writer, 77Obituary: Gwladys Evan Morris https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001179/19570314/118/0010 5 July 2018 The Stage 14 March 1957 10 21 March – Russell Thomas, doctor, lawyer and politician, 60 30 July – William Richard Arnold, rugby player, 76 26 June – John Morgan, Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of Llandaff, 71'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 1 August – Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player, 80 15 August – Alice Williams, writer, painter and voluntary worker, 94Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, ‘Williams, Alice Helena Alexandra (1863–1957)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 20 Oct 2017 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, 55Felice Levy Facts on File, Inc Obituaries on File https://archive.org/details/obituariesonfile01feli registration 1979 Facts on File 978-0-87196-372-7 10 October – Lloyd Davies, footballer, 80Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 Michael Joyce Soccerdata 2004 1-899468-67-6 12 November – Wilfred Hodder, Wales international rugby player, 61 7 December Maurice Jones, priest and academic, 94https://biography.wales/article/s2-JONE-MAU-1863 Jones, Maurice (1863-1957), priest and college principal Mary Gwendoline Ellis Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 5 July 2019 Alfred Ernest Watkins, footballer, 79 Watkins, Alfred Ernest (Alf) (Ernie) (Fred) astonvillaplayerdatabase.com 15 December 2017 http://www.astonvillaplayerdatabase.com/1400.html 9 December – Llewellyn Gwynne, first bishop of Egypt and Sudan, 94H̤̊asan Makkī Muh̤̊ammad Ah̤̊mad Sudan, the Christian design: a study of the missionary factor in Sudan's cultural and political integration, 1843-1986 https://books.google.com/books?id=b2ImAQAAIAAJ 1989 Islamic Foundation 978-0-86037-193-9 See also 1957 in Northern Ireland References Category:1957 in Europe Category:1950s in Wales