1992 in Wales

none 1992 thumb | 220x124px | right | Waun Fignen Felen This article is about the particular significance of the year 1992 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1992 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – David Hunthttps://members.parliament.uk/member/994/career Lord Hunt of Wirral UK Parliament 31 May 2022 Archbishop of Wales – Alwyn Rice Jones, Bishop of St Asaphhttp://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2866732.ece The Right Rev Alwyn Rice Jones The Independent 16 August 2007 Barry Morgan 31 May 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20071001000228/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2866732.ece 1 October 2007 dead Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Ap LlysorMeic Stephens Necrologies: A Book of Welsh Obituaries https://books.google.com/books?id=XUIqAQAAMAAJ 2008 Seren 978-1-85411-476-1 221 Events Wales play England at women's rugby at Cardiff Arms Park for the first time. 9 April - In the UK General Election: Long-serving Liberal MP Geraint Howells unexpectedly loses the seat of Ceredigion and Pembroke North to Plaid Cymru. He is elevated to the peerage as Baron Geraint of Ponterwyd.John Graham Jones The History of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=goevBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA175 15 November 2014 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-169-0 175 Plaid Cymru's new MP, Cynog Dafis, is helped by an electoral alliance between Plaid and the Wales Green Party. Nick Ainger wins Pembroke for Labour from the Conservatives.Robert Waller Byron Criddle The Almanac of British Politics https://books.google.com/books?id=9mC7pEr0R6QC&pg=PA149 1999 Psychology Press 978-0-415-18541-7 149 Merlyn Rees retires from the House of Commons. Llew Smith replaces the retiring Michael Foot as MP for Blaenau Gwent. Following his retirement at the election, Sir Geoffrey Howe becomes a life peer as Lord Howe of Aberavon. 13 April - Neil Kinnock resigns after nearly nine years as leader of the Labour Party, having failed for the second successive general election to defeat the Conservative government, although his party has gradually reduced the Conservative majority during that time.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/13/newsid_2830000/2830895.stm 1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns On This Day 13 April 1992 BBC 2018-05-28 1 May-4 October - The Ebbw Vale Garden Festival, the last garden festival held in the UK. 6 August - Texaco offers to purchase the entire village of Rhoscrowther which lies immediately adjacent to its Pembroke Refinery.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/texaco-offers-to-buy-village-1539321.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131216110000/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/texaco-offers-to-buy-village-1539321.html 2013-12-16 subscription live London The Independent Michael Prestage Texaco offers to buy village 1992-08-08 2018-05-28 26 August - Five people are killed in a speedboat accident off Llandudno. December - One-off stage performance of An Evening with Dylan Thomas takes place to mark the opening of the new AIR Studios. date unknown The Passport Office agrees to process passport applications in the Welsh language.Reference Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-j0ro22GZU8C 1994 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1234-6 67 The Polytechnic of Wales becomes the University of Glamorgan.B. Hunter The Statesman's Year-Book 1993-94 https://books.google.com/books?id=447JDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1369 23 December 2016 Springer 978-0-230-27122-7 1369 The Chwarae Teg organisation is launched to improve work opportunities for women in Wales by assisting with childcare. The Swansea Barrage is constructed on the River Tawe estuary.Jean Paul Lagardere Marie-Laure Begout Anras Guy Claireaux Advances in Invertebrates and Fish Telemetry: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Fish Telemetry in Europe, Held in LaRochelle, France, 5 - 9 April 1997 https://books.google.com/books?id=B1ejfZM6gKMC&pg=PA322 31 October 1998 Springer Science & Business Media 978-0-7923-5211-2 322 Arts and literature A full-time officer for Welsh learners is appointed by the National Eisteddfod of Wales. The periodical Y Faner ceases publication.https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/baner-ac-amserau-cymru Baner ac Amserau Cymru British Newspaper Archive 1 June 2022 Michael Sheen co-stars with Vanessa Redgrave in When She Danced in the West End. Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau is established. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Aberystwyth) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Idris Reynolds, "A Fo Ben"https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair?_ga=2.196744876.1631880097.1570104027-963760572.1570104027 Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 October 2019 6 October 2019 29 September 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190929131826/https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Cyril Jones National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Robin Llywelyn, Seren Wen Ar Gefndir GwynRobin Llywelyn Seren wen ar gefndir gwyn https://books.google.com/books?id=8UNGAAAACAAJ 1992 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Frenhinol Cymru 978-0-86383-985-6 Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - withheldhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/eisteddfod/2010/safle/canllaw/gwybodaeth/tudalen/eisteddfodau_gorffennol_gwobrgoffa.shtml Enillwyr Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen cy BBC Cymru 24 November 2019 Wales Book of the Year: English language: Emyr Humphreys - Bonds of AttachmentM Wynn Thomas In The Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=F3yvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA353 1 November 2010 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2342-7 353 Welsh language: Gerallt Lloyd Owen - Cilmeri New books Welsh language Bedwyr Lewis Jones - Yn Ei ElfenGlyn Jones The Collected Stories of Glyn Jones https://books.google.com/books?id=DasgAQAAIAAJ 1999 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1420-3 362 Christopher Meredith - Griffri Gerallt Lloyd Owen - Cilmeri Ifor Rees - Bro a Bywyd:13. Aneirin Talfan Davies 1909-1980Gwales entry. Accessed 6 March 2014 M. Wynn Thomas - Morgan Llwyd, ei Gyfeillion a'i Gyfnod Angharad Tomos - Si Hei Lwli Music Michael Ball competes for the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing second. Stereophonics formed in Cwmaman. Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists (album) Y Cyrff - Mae Ddoe Yn Ddoe (album) Film Anthony Hopkins wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Silence of the Lambs. Hopkins and Paul Rhys are among the stars of Chaplin. Rebecca's Daughters, based on a 1948 screenplay by Dylan Thomas, is filmed in Wales and directed by Karl Francis. Stars include Paul Rhys and Keith Allen.Film https://books.google.com/books?id=aAYIAQAAMAAJ 1992 British Federation of Film Societies Welsh-language films Gadael Lenin Hedd Wyn, wins the Royal Television Society's Award for Best Single Drama, BAFTA Cymru Awards in several categories and is the first Welsh language film nominated for an Academy Award.Welsh film history: 1990–99 https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/film/pages/history-1990-1999.shtml 11 December 2010 BBC 5 March 2010 BBC Cymru Wales website Broadcasting The first community radio stations in Wales are approved by the Radio Authority: Radio Ceredigion at Aberystwyth and Radio Maldwyn at Newtown. Welsh-language television Merched Lasarus (comedy) English-language television Sport Athletics - Tanni Grey wins four gold medals at the Paralympics in Barcelona, and is named Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year.Barbara L. Drinkwater Women in Sport https://books.google.com/books?id=rPXr-0PUk5gC&pg=PA310 15 April 2008 John Wiley & Sons 978-0-470-75685-0 310 BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Tanni GreyBBC Wales Sport Personality winners BBC Sport https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 2 August 2021 Boxing 13 October - Neil Haddock wins the British Super Featherweight boxing championship. 14 November - Robbie Regan wins the European Flyweight boxing championship. 12 December - Nicky Piper loses the World Super Middleweight Boxing title fight in London. Horse racing - Carl Llewellyn wins the Grand National on "Party Politics" Football - The League of Wales is launched.S4C: A season in brief: 1992/93. Accessed 6 March 2014 Births 13 January - Adam Matthews, footballer 12 February - Dafydd Carter, footballer 14 February - Jack Jones, alternative rock singer-songwriter 23 February - Daniel Alfei, footballer 23 March - Morgan Evans, rugby league player 12 April - The Vivienne (James Lee Williams), drag queen (died 2025) 13 May - Joe Walsh, footballer 27 May - Demi Holborn, singer 10 June - Lee Lucas, footballer 24 June - Sam Harrison, racing cyclist 5 July - Dan Baker, rugby union player 7 July - Ben Jones, footballer 19 July - Aled Davies, rugby union player 25 July - Jonathan Evans, rugby union player 12 October - Kyron Duke, powerlifter and field athlete Deaths 27 January - Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, actress, 101Martial Rose Forever Juliet: The Life and Letters of Gwen Ffrancon-Davies, 1891-1992 https://books.google.com/books?id=fIOoYGF9LrgC&pg=PA189 2003 Larks Press 978-1-904006-12-1 189 4 February - Alan Davies, footballer, 30 February - Alexander Tudor-Hart, doctor and political activist, 90Conrad Keating Smoking Kills: The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll https://books.google.com/books?id=gjscDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT400 5 July 2016 Andrews UK Limited 978-1-909930-40-7 400 17 February - Curigwen Lewis, actress, 86 22 February - David Davies, rugby league player, 89Melling Phil Man of Amman: The Life of Dai Davies 1994 Gomez 1-85902-083-6 11 March - Archie Hughes, footballer, 73Bob Goodwin The Spurs Alphabet https://books.google.com/books?id=AOqcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA217 16 August 2017 978-0-9540434-2-1 217 Lulu.com 18 March Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, solicitor and politician, 64s6-EVAN-GRU-1928 Evans, David Thomas Gruffydd, Baron Evans of Claughton (1928-1992), solicitor and politician David Lewis Jones 5 September 2008 1 June 2022 Jack Kelsey, footballer, 62 30 March - Alun Williams, radio and TV presenter, 81 6 April - Hywel Lewis, philosopher, 81Sutherland, Stewart. (1993). Obituary: Hywel David Lewis 1910–1992. Philosophy. Vol. 68, No. 264. pp. 263–264. 28 April - Elfed Davies, Baron Davies of Penrhys, politician, 78Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, vol IX https://books.google.com/books?id=cWkwAQAAMAAJ 2002 A. & C. Black 978-0-7136-6125-5 27 June - Ivor Davies, Archdeacon of Lewisham, 74 14 July - Gwyn Davies, dual-code rugby player, 84 19 July - Gareth Price, rugby league player, 74 22 August - David Tecwyn Lloyd, author, 77 28 or 29 August - Bedwyr Lewis Jones, writer and scholar, 58Nomina https://books.google.com/books?id=_6_vHETDcQ0C 1992 English Name-Studies 132 6 September - Mervyn Johns, actor, 93 8 September - Edward Roderick Davies, industrialist, 77 16 September - Roderick Jones, opera singer, 82https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-roderick-jones-1554376.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-roderick-jones-1554376.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Roderick Jones The Independent 28 September 1992 28 October 2013 19 September - Sir Geraint Evans, opera singer, 70An Almanack...: By Joseph Whitaker, F.S.A. https://books.google.com/books?id=iw4wAAAAMAAJ 1993 Whitaker's Almanack 1160 October - Wilf Jones, cricketer, 80 20 October - Brian Badcoe, actor 30 October - Joe Price, cricketer, 64 21 November - Irwyn Ranald Walters, musician, 89Beryl Bowen James David Ian Allsobrook First in the World: The Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=8bflAAAAMAAJ 1995 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1296-4 1 23 December - Cyril Walters, cricketer, 87 26 December - Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies, judge, 86Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage https://books.google.com/books?id=OX8ZN5qFKZgC 2011 Debrett's Peerage Limited 978-1-870520-73-7 513 date unknown - John Weston Thomas, harp builder, 81Folk Harp Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=lkYqAQAAIAAJ 2005 56 See also 1992 in Northern Ireland References Category:1992 in Europe Category:1992 by country Category:1990s in Wales