1954 in Wales

none thumb|alt=Chapel in Wales, photo from 1954. 1954 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1954 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Archbishop of Wales – John Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfnallt Events 1 April – Civilian flights from the old Cardiff Municipal Airport at Pengam Moors are transferred to the new Cardiff Airport near Rhoose. 29 May – Gwyneth Phillips marries John Dunwoody, continuing a dynasty of Labour politicians.Lawrence Goldman Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=nbGcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA337 7 March 2013 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-967154-0 337 19 June – The Welsh Chess Union is founded.The British Chess Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=eSAuAQAAIAAJ 1954 Trubner & Company October – Launch of the Empire News, the first Sunday newspaper to be printed and published in Wales.Fleet Street Annual https://books.google.com/books?id=mTZaAAAAYAAJ 1954 19 October – Gwilym Lloyd George becomes Home SecretaryRichard Lamb The failure of the Eden Government https://books.google.com/books?id=YXNnAAAAMAAJ 1987 Sidgwick & Jackson and Minister for Welsh Affairs – the first Welshman to hold the position. 9 December – Flag of the Church in Wales officially inaugurated.E. M. C. Barraclough William G. Crampton Frederick Edward Hulme Flags of the world https://books.google.com/books?id=NzhoAAAAMAAJ 1978 F. Warne 30 Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Ystradgynlais) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – John Evans, "Yr Argae"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 – E. Llwyd Williams, "Y Bannau"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 – Owen Elias Roberts, Y Gor o Ystradgynlaishttps://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 Dannie Abse – Ash on a Young Man's Sleevehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11126588/Dannie-Abse-obituary.html Dannie Abse - obituary 28 September 2014 The Telegraph 31 August 2018 Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim Glyn Daniel – Welcome Death Margiad Evans – The Nightingale Silenced (unpublished)Barbara Prys-Williams Twentieth-century Autobiography https://books.google.com/books?id=zsllAAAAMAAJ 2004 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1891-1 Ronald Fenton – The Story of Sker HouseMeic Stephens The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic registration April 1986 Oxford University Press 197 Eiluned Lewis – Honey Pots and Brandy Bottles V. E. Nash-Williams – The Roman Frontier in Wales Bertrand Russell – Nightmares of Eminent Persons and Other Stories Dylan Thomas – Quite Early One Morning Music Geraint Evans stars in William Walton's new opera, Troilus and Cressida. Alun Hoddinott – Clarinet Concerto (performed at the Cheltenham Festival by Gervase de Peyer with the Hallé Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli).https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/obituaries/obituary/alun-hoddinott Alun Hoddinott CBE Cardiff University 13 October 2024 Arwel Hughes – Menna (opera) Daniel Jones – Symphony no 4 Film Donald Houston co-stars in Doctor in the House. Ray Milland stars in Dial M for Murder. The Black Knight, starring Alan Ladd, is partly filmed at Castell Coch.Cadwm Heritage in Wales, no 32, p7 Broadcasting 25 January – Under Milk Wood is performed for the first time on BBC radio with an all-Welsh cast led by Richard Burton and including Hugh Griffith, Rachel Thomas and Philip Burton.Richard Hughes in Thomas, D. N. (2004), Dylan Remembered 1935-1953, Seren, p.75; and also Hughes' review of Under Milk Wood in The Sunday Times, March 7, 1954. Sport Football – John Charles finishes the 1953–54 season having scored 42 goals for Leeds United. Rugby union – Wales win the Five Nations Championship, but a loss against England prevents Wales lifting the Triple Crown. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Ken JonesBBC Wales Sport Personality winners https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 BBC Sport 29 July 2021 Births 5 January – Elgan Rees, Wales international rugby playerPeter Jackson Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends https://books.google.com/books?id=JqQeMae6VroC 1998 Mainstream 978-1-84018-026-8 214 6 January – John Sparkes, comedian 21 January – Tony Ridler, darts player 12 March – Chris Needs, broadcaster (died 2020)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/08/09/chris-needs-radio-host-musician-brought-home-comforts-welsh/ Chris Needs, radio host and musician who brought home comforts to the Welsh diaspora – obituary 9 August 2020 The Telegraph 13 October 2024 13 March – Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech 17 March – Trish Law, born Patricia Bolter, AM, politician 6 April – Alan Curtis, footballer 19 April – Jon Owen Jones, politicianDod's Parliamentary Companion Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited 2004 210 23 May – David Richards, Wales international rugby player 28 May – Gwyn Morgan, writer 9 June Paul Chapman, rock guitarist Rhys Morgan, Wales international rugby player 7 July – Mickey Thomas, Welsh international footballerStoke City 101 Golden Greats 2002 Desert Islands Books 1-874287554 August – Ceri Sherlock, filmmaker and theatre directorhttp://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/9166597/MR-CERI-SHERLOCK Ceri Sherlock - Cardiff - Training CheckCompany 3 October 2018 27 August – Bryn Fôn, singer and actor 12 September – Sir Michael Moritz, businessman and philanthropisthttps://www.digitalriptide.org/person/mike-moritz/ Mike Moritz Riptide 13 October 2024 19 September – Mark Drakeford, politicianDrakeford, Mark http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-257820 Who's Who 2019 Oxford University Press 6 December 2018 1 December 2018 24 September – Helen Lederer, comedian and actress 25 September – Gareth Thomas, politicianhttps://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2068024.stm Gareth Thomas 17 October 2002 BBC News 1 July 2022 12 October – Keith Griffiths, architect 13 October – Kim Davies, cricketer 14 October – Lowri Gwilym, television and radio producer 13 November – Les Keen, Wales international rugby player Deaths 12 January – Thomas Brinsmead Williams, cricketer, 69 6 March – William Davies Thomas, academic, 74 25 March – William Jackson, footballer, 78 10 April – Harry Hiams, rugby union international, 67 6 May – J. J. Williams, poet and archdruid, 84Jones Evan David E. D. Jones John James Williams s2-WILL-JAM-1869 22 May 2015 15 June William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose, 74G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XIII, page 294. Charles Edwards, politician, 87 10 July – Jack Anthony, jockey, 64http://www.cowbridge-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=269&headline=Welsh%20steeplechase%20jockeys%20%E2%80%93%20Jack%20Anthony...&searchyear=2015 Welsh steeplechase jockeys – Jack Anthony... 31 August 2015 Cowbridge Gem 17 March 2019 10 August – Ernest Morgan, architect and painter, 72/73https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40269/page/5110/data.pdf London Gazette, no 40269 The Gazette 18 March 2019 29 September – William John Gruffydd, author and politician, 73s2-GRUF-JOH-1881 Gruffydd, William John (1881-1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor Thomas Parry National Library of Wales 17 March 2019 31 October – Rhys Davies, trade unionist and politician, 77s2-DAVI-JOH-1877 Davies, Rhys John (1877-1954), politician and trade union official Walter Thomas Morgan National Library of Wales 17 March 2019 8 November – Sir Geoffrey Crawshay, soldier and social benefactor, 62https://biography.wales/article/s2-CRAW-HUG-1892 Crawshay, Sir Geoffrey Cartland Hugh (1892-1954), soldier and social benefactor L. N. Hopper Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 17 March 2019 3 December – Sir Joseph Davies, statistician and Liberal politician, 87Michael Stenton Who's who of British Members of Parliament: 1919-1945 Harvester Press 1976 91 10 December – Sir Cadwaladr Bryner Jones, civil servant and educationist, 82s2-JONE-BRY-1872 JONES, Sir CADWALADR BRYNER (1872 - 1954) John Morgan Jones 2001 14 December – Cliff Pritchard, Welsh international rugby player, 73 20 December – Frank Connah, hockey player, 70 22 December – Robert Richards, Welsh politician, 70s2-RICH-ROB-1884 Richards, Robert (1884-1954), historian and politician Evan David Jones 2001 1 July 2022 See also 1954 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1954 in Europe Category:1950s in Wales