1935 in Wales

none 1935 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1935 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1935 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 – Gwilis-JENK-GWI-1872 Jenkins, John (Gwili) (1872-1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 2 November 2021 Events 6 April – Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry.The Railway Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=LSpWAAAAMAAJ 1988 IPC Business Press 181 23 April – Morriston Orpheus Choir is founded by Ivor E. Sims.https://www.morristonorpheus.com/the-story-of-the-choir-1935-85 The Choir 1935-1985 Alun Howells Morriston Orpheus Choir 16 August 2019 17 June – The first detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar is achieved by a team including Edward George Bowen.C.S.I.R.O. Radiophysics Laboratory CSIRO (Australia). Radiophysics Laboratory A Textbook of Radar https://books.google.com/books?id=K4I8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3 1954 CUP Archive 3 October – At Nine Mile Point Colliery in Cwmfelinfachhttp://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Gwent/NineMilePoint.htm Nine Mile Point Welsh Coal Mines 2017-12-24 164 miners take part in a "stay-down" strike action lasting 177 hours over the use of non-union labour. 14 November – In the UK general election: Megan Lloyd George reverts from Independent Liberal to Liberal MP after a four-year estrangement from the party leadership. Newly elected MPs include Arthur Jenkins at Pontypool. 3 December – Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli becomes the first in the UK to sell beer in cans.John Dallas Charles McMaster The beer drinker's companion: facts, fables and folklore from the world of beer https://books.google.com/books?id=OkNNdZBo_dAC 23 September 1993 Edinburgh Publishing Company 978-1-874201-14-4 120 date unknown Ten people are jailed at Blaina and a further 32 at Merthyr Tydfil during a period of industrial unrest in South Wales. Penallta Colliery takes the European record for amount of coal wound in a 24-hour period.Penallta Colliery http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/GlamEast/Penallta.htm Welsh Coal Mines 2017-12-24 Arts and literature Arwel Hughes joins the BBC's music department in Cardiff. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – E. Gwyndaf EvansMeic Stephens The new companion to the literature of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ 23 September 1998 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1383-1 National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Gwilym R. Jones New books English language Rhys Davies – Honey and Bread Walford Davies – The Pursuit of MusicLibrary of Congress. Copyright Office Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1935 https://books.google.com/books?id=_qQhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1948 1936 Copyright Office, Library of Congress 1948– Geraint Goodwin – Call Back Yesterday Llewelyn Wyn Griffith – Spring of YouthNational Library of Wales https://web.archive.org/web/20141127183843/http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?coll_id=20445 2014-11-27 Dr Llewelyn Wyn Griffith Papers]. Accessed 16 November 2014 Jack Jones – Black Parade Eiluned Lewis – December Apples (poems)Meic Stephens A Book of Wales: an anthology https://books.google.com/books?id=mw4kAAAAMAAJ 1 April 1987 J.M. Dent Bertrand Russell – Religion and Science Howard Spring – Rachel RosingGeorge Watson The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: https://books.google.com/books?id=9e48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR391 2 July 1971 CUP Archive 391– GGKEY:64CF45KC7C0 Welsh language Thomas Parry (ed) – Baledi'r Ddeunawfed Ganrif Ifor Williams (editor) – Canu Llywarch HenAlbrecht Classen Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms – Methods – Trends https://books.google.com/books?id=ez_edSWAQGAC&pg=PA1412 29 November 2010 Walter de Gruyter 978-3-11-021558-8 1412 New drama James Kitchener Davies – Cwm GloIoan Williams Baz Kershaw Towards national identities: Welsh theatres The Cambridge History of British Theatre 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=rvcGBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA254 2004 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-65132-5 254 Emlyn Williams – Night Must Fall Stephen J. Williams – Y dyn hysbys: comedi mewn tair act Music John Glyn Davies – Cerddi Robin Goch Ivor Novello – Glamorous Night Film Y Chwarelwr, the first Welsh language filmThe Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales University of Wales Press 2008 9780708319536 142 Pink Shirts, an amateur film made by the Marquess of Anglesey and his family and written by Peter Fleming, satirizing the British Fascist movement. Broadcasting April – John Reith, head of the BBC, meets a deputation from the University of Wales and Welsh MPs, and agrees to Wales becoming a BBC region.Thomas Hajkowski The BBC and National Identity in Britain, 1922-53 https://books.google.com/books?id=x4jJDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA180 21 February 2017 Oxford University Press 978-1-5261-1884-4 180 November – The BBC opens a studio in Bangor. date unknown – The BBC Welsh Orchestra, originally founded in 1928, is re-established as a 20-piece ensemble.Kenneth O. Morgan Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880-1980 https://books.google.com/books?id=2DB2EHJ08aIC&pg=PA251 1981 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-821736-7 251 Sport Rugby 28 September – Swansea is the first British club to defeat a touring New Zealand sideJohn Binley George Thomas Great Rugger Matches: Forty-one Historic Matches from 1871 to 1958 https://books.google.com/books?id=U3VNAQAAMAAJ 1959 Stanley Paul 90 and becomes the first team, club or international, to beat all three major touring Southern Hemisphere countries. Births 13 January – Vincent Kane, broadcaster 4 February – Brian Davies, animal welfare activist (died 2022)Brian Davies obituary: 4 February 1935 – 27 December 2022 https://networkforanimals.org/appeal/brian-davies-obituary-4-february-1935-27-december-2022/ 29 December 2022 Network For Animals 28 December 2022 7 February – Cliff Jones, footballer 9 February – Paul Flynn, politician (died 2019)https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/18/paul-flynn-obituary Paul Flynn obituary The Guardian 18 February 2019 Julia Langdon Julia Langdon 27 March – Tom Parry Jones, inventor (died 2013)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9803707/Tom-Parry-Jones.html Tom Parry Jones The Telegraph 15 January 2013 18 February 2019 29 March – Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone (died 2001)https://biography.wales/article/s10-BRYN-DEL-1934 Bryn-Jones, Delme (1934-2001), opera singer Trevor Herbert Dictionary of Welsh Biography 26 May 2019 8 April – Islwyn Jones, footballerThe Definitive: Cardiff City F.C. Richard Shepherd SoccerData Publications 2002 54–55 Nottingham 1-899-46817-X 2 May – Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, politician (died 2010)https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/19/lord-livsey-of-talgarth Lord Livsey of Talgarth obituary The Guardian 19 September 2010 Jonathan Fryer Jonathan Fryer 18 February 2019 25 May – John Ffowcs Williams, engineerAnon (2017) Ffowcs Williams, Prof. John Eirwyn U15677 online Oxford University Press Oxford 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.15677 27 May – Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, born in Liverpool (shot by police 1976 in the United States)Kenneth Womack Evans, Mal (1935–1976) The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=xWRyBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA265 30 June 2014 ABC-CLIO 978-0-313-39172-9 265 30 May – Brayley Reynolds, footballer 24 June – Garfield Davies, trade unionist and politician (died 2019)https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/13/lord-davies-of-coity-obituary Lord Davies of Coity The Guardian 13 March 2019 26 May 2019 26 July – George Evans, footballer (died 2000) 1 August – Brian Jenkins, footballer 5 August – Kingsley Jones, rugby player (died 2003) 5 October – Colin Hudson, footballer (died 2005) 23 October – Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno, politicianCharles Roger Dod Robert Phipps Dod Dod's Parliamentary Companion https://books.google.com/books?id=hSMkAQAAIAAJ 2009 Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited 978-0-905702-79-7 830 November – Ivor Davies, painter and installation artist 30 November – Sally Roberts Jones, poet and publisherInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 Taylor & Francis Group 2003 9781857431797 290 21 December – Geoff Lewis, jockeyhttp://www.greyhoundderby.com/Irish%20Derby1969.html Irish Derby 1969 Greyhound Derby 31 December 2022 31 December – Edwin Regan, Roman Catholic bishophttp://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/breganed.html Edwin Regan Catholic-Hierarchy 8 August 2023 Deaths 1 February – John Aeron Thomas, industrialist and politician, 84The Law Times https://books.google.com/books?id=Tf4wAQAAIAAJ January 1935 Office of The Law Times 112 15 February – Tom Reason, cricketer, 44 March – William Frost, inventor, 86https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fwales%2Fentries%2F5397dd9f-1cd3-3738-b76a-855d4b8a1036 Bill Frost - the first man to fly? 20 October 2011 Phil Carradice Phil Carradice BBC 26 May 2019 3 March – Caradog Roberts, composer, 46Robert Evans Maggie Humphreys Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=xZCvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA286 1 January 1997 Bloomsbury Publishing 978-1-4411-3796-8 286 13 March – Francis Vaughan, Roman Catholic bishop, 57 (post-operative complications)Chris Larsen Catholic Bishops of Great Britain: A Reference to Roman Catholic Bishops from 1850 to 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=8Y0NDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA300 1 April 2016 Sacristy Press 978-1-910519-25-7 300 14 March – Thomas Lloyd, Anglican Bishop of Maenan, 77 Death of the Bishop of Maenan 1935_03_22_362 3765 22 March 1935 362 6 October 2017 20 March – Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68The Law Times https://books.google.com/books?id=Tf4wAQAAIAAJ January 1935 Office of The Law Times 228 23 March – John Gwynoro Davies, minister and author, 80https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-GWY-1855 Davies, John Gwynoro (1855-1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister William Watkin Davies Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 17 November 2020 24 March – Maurice Parry, footballer, 57 9 May – John Goulstone Lewis, Wales international rugby union player, 75 18 May – T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia", 46 (motorcycle accident)https://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8130000/8130638.stm BBC T.E. Lawrence, To Arabia and back 24 August 2013 1 July – Bill Evans, rugby player, 78Bill Evans player profile https://web.archive.org/web/20110617055453/http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=103394 17 June 2011 BlackandAmbers.co.uk 19 July – Tom Jones, cricketer, 34 12 August – Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George, 29 (murdered in Manchukuo)Journalist Gareth Jones' 1935 murder examined by BBC Four 2012-07-05 BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-18691109 2012-07-05 21 August – Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician, 94C. Cook P. Jones J. Sinclair Sources in British Political History 1900–1951: Volume 4: A Guide to the Private Papers of Members of Parliament: L–Z https://books.google.com/books?id=6DuvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA258 20 April 1977 Palgrave Macmillan UK 978-1-349-15762-4 258 20 September – Teddy Peers, footballer, 48 10 October – Samuel Evans, educationists-EVAN-SAM-1859 Evans, Samuel (1859-1935), chairman of the Crown Mine, Johannesburg, educational pioneer Edward Morgan Humphreys 25 May 2024 31 October – Noah Ablett, politician, 52 (alcohol-related)The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg11 978-0-7083-1953-6 27 November – Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer, 73https://biography.wales/article/s1-MILL-HER-1862 Mills-Roberts, Robert Herbert (1862-1935), surgeon, and association football player Robert Thomas Jenkins Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 August 2019 7 December – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist, 100National Library of Wales Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru https://books.google.com/books?id=MWQaAAAAMAAJ 1942 Council of the National Library of Wales 64 13 December – Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90Amy Dillwyn A Burglary: Or, Unconscious Influence https://books.google.com/books?id=9b1AAQAAIAAJ 2009 Honno 978-1-906784-07-2 ix See also 1935 in Northern Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1935 in Europe Category:1930s in Wales