1959 in Wales

none 1959 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1959 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1959 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 – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth"Alfred Edwin Morris – Archbishop of Wales" in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (1991), 42 : 527-528 CUP Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – William MorrisThe Illustrated London News Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited 1958 248 Events thumb|Flag of Wales approved in 1959 1 January – The 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (informally known as the "Welsh Cavalry") is formed. February – The Queen makes the red dragon on a green and white background the official flag of Wales.Barraclough E.M.C. Flags of the World https://archive.org/details/flagsofworld00barr registration 1965https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1959/feb/23/welsh-flag#S5CV0600P0-04661 Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Welsh Flag (House of Commons Debates 600 cc121-2W – Written Answers) 1959-02-23 2012-07-11 4 May – Aneurin Bevan is elected deputy leader of the Labour Party.http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/BRz9JX subscription Labour Leaders Elected The Times 6 24 October 1959 29 July 2019 The Times Digital Archive 6 August – Huw T. Edwards leaves the Labour Party for Plaid Cymru in protest at the decision to flood the Tryweryn valley.arc_s2-EDWA-THO-1892 Edwards, Huw Thomas (1892-1970), trade union leader and politician John Graham Jones 2001 21 August 2021 8 October – At the UK general election: Newly elected MPs include John Morris (Aberavon); Donald Box (Cardiff North); Ifor Davies (Gower) and Geraint Morgan (Denbigh). Poet Waldo Williams stands as a Plaid Cymru candidate. Hugh Dalton retires from Parliament. The Local Government Commission for Wales is set up, chaired by Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans. Sir William Jones resigns from the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire in protest at the appointment of Henry Brooke. Will Paynter becomes Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain). Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, sells his holdings in Kemsley Newspapers to Roy Thomson. Gilbern Sports Cars begin production of their kit cars at Llantwit Fardre, Pontypridd, Glamorgan.Georgano Nick The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile 2000 HMSO London 1-57958-293-1 Arts and literature 120px|thumb|Shirley Bassey 8 January – Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary (last December) by appearing together in Eighty in the Shade, a play written especially for them, in London. 9 January – Shirley Bassey is the first Welsh singer to hit number one in the UK singles chart, with "As I Love You".http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/shirley-bassey/pages/as-i-love-you.shtml Shirley Bassey - As I Love You BBC Wales Music 14 March 2019 December – Actress Siân Phillips marries Peter O'Toole in Dublin.Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan https://books.google.com/books?id=e8ccAQAAMAAJ 1969 Pakistan Herald Publications 67 Literature Wales is established as The Academi. Harry Secombe is voted Show Business Personality of the Year. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – T. Llew Jones National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Tom Huws National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – William Owen New books English language Menna Gallie – Strike for a Kingdom Edgar Phillips – Edmund Jones, "The Old Prophet" Bertrand Russell – My Philosophical Development Welsh language Albert Evans-Jones – Cerddi Cynan, y casgliad cyflawnRussell Davies People, Places and Passions: A Social History of Wales and the Welsh 18701948 https://books.google.com/books?id=JTonDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT637 15 June 2015 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-239-0 637 D. Gwenallt Jones – Gwreiddiau Kate Roberts – Te yn y Grug Music Grace Williams – All Seasons shall be Sweet Film Rachel Thomas, Meredith Edwards and Megs Jenkins appear with John Mills and Hayley Mills in Tiger Bay. Hugh Griffith wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Ben-Hur. Broadcasting Statistics show that 50% of households in Wales have television licences. The BBC Third Programme becomes available on VHF from Wenvoe. Welsh-language television Ar Lin Mam (children's programme) Trysor o Gân (Treasury of Song) English-language television Ivor the Engine (children's programme) Sports Athletics – The Welsh Games are held for the first time. Boxing – Former world flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde is elected to the American Boxing Hall of Fame. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Graham MooreBBC Wales Sport Personality winners https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 BBC Sport 29 July 2021 Births 30 January – Cynthia Carter, journalist, author and academic Carter, Cynthia, 1959- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98008717.html Library of Congress 5 December 2014 data sheet (b. Jan. 30, 1959) 25 February – Mike Peters, rock singer (died 2025)https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/alarm-singer-mike-peters-prestatyn-2786835 The Alarm singer Mike Peters of Prestatyn 22 June 2009 Daily Post 15 March 2019 21 March – Colin Jones, boxer 24 April – Paula Yates, television presenter (died 2000)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1355814/Paula-Yates.html Paula Yates 18 September 2000 The Telegraph 15 March 2019 3 May – Eddie Niedzwiecki, footballer 8 May – Jillian Evans MEP, politicianhttps://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4550/JILL_EVANS/home Jill Evans European Parliament 15 March 2019 20 May – Annabel Giles, model 28 May – Steve Strange, born Steven Harrington, pop singer/promoter (died 2015)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/steve-strange-lead-singer-with-visage-and-club-owner-who-became-the-leading-light-of-the-1980s-new-10045777.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/steve-strange-lead-singer-with-visage-and-club-owner-who-became-the-leading-light-of-the-1980s-new-10045777.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Steve Strange: Lead singer with Visage and club owner who became the leading light of the 1980s New Romantic movement 13 February 2015 Pierre Perrone The Independent 15 March 2019 18 June – Jocelyn Davies AM, politician 5 September – Mike Ruddock, rugby coachhttp://www.wru.co.uk/49_3181.php Profile Welsh Rugby Union 7 June 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20070311144838/http://www.wru.co.uk/49_3181.php 11 March 2007 dead 7 November – Richard Barrett, composer 26 November – Dai Davies MP, politicianhttps://books.google.com/books?id=K7pDAQAAIAAJ Dod's Parliamentary Companion August 29, 2010 Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited 9780905702896 date unknown – Paul Henry, poet Deaths thumb|upright|William Nantlais Williams, died 18 June 1 January – Daniel Jones, Wales international rugby player, 83 13 January – Henry Weale, Victoria Cross recipient, 61Max Arthur Symbol of Courage: The Men Behind the Medal Pan Macmillan 2005 9780330491334 683 3 February – Sir Evan Williams, 1st Baronet, industrialist, 87s2-WILL-EVA-1871 Williams, Sir Evan (1871-1959), BARONET and colliery owner Graeme Holmes 2001 yes 14 March 2018 21 February – Kathleen Freeman, classical scholar, 61s2-FREE-KAT-1897 Freeman, Kathleen (‘Mary Fitt’; 1897-1959), classical scholar and writer Roland Glyn Mathias Roland Mathias 2001 yes 30 June 2019 24 February – Sid Judd, international rugby player, 30 3 March – Billy Bancroft, rugby and cricket player, 88 21 April – David Bell, writer and curator, 43s2-BELL-DAV-1915 Bell, Ernest David (1915-1959), artist and poet Thomas Parry Thomas Parry (author) 2001 yes 30 June 2019 26 May – Thomas Baker Jones, Wales international rugby player, 96http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=106855 Newport RFC player profiles 2020-03-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20110617053803/http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=106855 2011-06-17 dead 18 June – Nantlais Williams, poet and preacher, 84s2-WILL-NAN-1874 WILLIAMS, WILLIAM NANTLAIS (1874-1959), minister (Presb.), editor, poet and hymn writer Gomer Morgan Roberts 2001 yes 10 September 2018 2 July – Ivor Davies, rugby player, 67http://en.espn.co.uk/wales/rugby/player/2483.html Ivor Davies: Wales en.espn.co.uk 6 January 2016 7 July – Frank Williams, Wales international rugby player, 49 23 July – George Davies, international rugby player, 83 5 August – D. 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Davis, Governor of Idaho, 86 9 August – John Hart Evans, rugby player, 78Jack Evans rugby union Scrum.com 15 October – Thomas Wynford Rees, army officer, 61s2-REES-WYN-1898 Rees, Thomas Wynford (‘Dagger’; 1898-1959), major-general David Glanville Rosser 2001 yes 30 June 2019 23 October – Anthony Windham Jones, rugby player, 80Windham Jones player profile Scrum.com 16 November – Fanny Winifred Edwards, teacher and writer, 83s2-EDWA-WIN-1876 Edwards, Fanny Winifred (1876–1959) Arwyn Lloyd Hughes 2001 yes 4 April 2016 17 November – David Owen Morgan, zoologist, 66Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 July 2006 The Royal Society of Edinburgh 0-902-198-84-X https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf 2017-10-10 2016-03-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf dead 27 November – Grenville Morris, footballer, 81 10 December – W. R. Davies, US academic of Welsh descent, 66 (heart attack)"Davies Leaves Inspiration"; The Spectator, December 17, 1959 28 December – David Brazell, singer, 84s2-BRAZ-DAV-1875 Brazell, David (1875-1959), singer Huw Williams 2001 yes 14 March 2018 30 December – Dick Duckfield, cricketer, 52http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11944.html Dick Duckfield Cricinfo 14 March 2019 See also 1959 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1959 in Europe Category:1950s in Wales