1955 in Wales

none March 2020 May 2011 1955 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1955 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Archbishop of Wales – John Morgan, Bishop of Llandaff Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfnallt Events 17 March – In the Wrexham by-election, brought about by the death of Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Richards, who had held the seat since 1935, James Idwal Jones holds the seat for Labour with a majority of nearly 11,000 votes.http://www.geocities.com/by_elections/55a.html#wrexham British parliamentary by-elections: Wrexham 1955 2011-01-16 Web Cite dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090831055341/http://geocities.com/by_elections/55a.html#wrexham 31 August 2009 18 April–28 May – Charles Evans leads the mountaineering expedition that conquers Kanchenjunga.American Alpine Club American Alpine Journal, 1979 https://books.google.com/books?id=vS-ZKYzsmxgC&pg=PA36 31 October 1997 The Mountaineers Books 978-0-930410-75-9 36 6 August – The Usk Reservoir is completed, contributing to Swansea's water supply.Cragg, Roger Civil Engineering Heritage: Wales and West Central England https://books.google.com/books?id=oTZZsUzmKrMC&pg=PA77 1986 Thomas Telford Publishing London 0-7277-2576-9 78 31 October – The A48 road bridges over the River Neath at Briton Ferry (six years in the building) are officially opened by the Minister of Transport. 3 December – The Farmers' Union of Wales breaks away from the National Farmers Union.From humble beginnings... a history of the FUW http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/humble-beginnings-history-fuw-2902984 North Wales Daily Post 2005-11-17 2015-11-05Peter Self Herbert J. Storing The State and the Farmer https://archive.org/details/statefarmerbriti00self registration 1963 University of California Press 57 GGKEY:Z0JQUCL5Z4C 20 December – Cardiff becomes the official capital of Wales.David Williams About Cardiff https://books.google.com/books?id=Dpfspxo6OBMC&pg=PA21 2005 Graffeg 978-0-9544334-2-0 21 Arts and literature The Gold Medal for Architecture is introduced to the National Eisteddfod.Time & Tide https://books.google.com/books?id=S7ISAAAAIAAJ July 1955 Time and Tide Publishing Company Bertrand Russell retires to Plas Penrhyn, Penrhyndeudraeth. The Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music is founded.John Davies Nigel Jenkins Menna Baines The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1953-6 Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Pwllheli) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Gwilym Ceri Jones, "Gwrtheyrn"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 – W. J. Gruffydd, "Ffenestri"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 – M. Selyf Roberts, Deg o'r Diweddhttps://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 Emyr Humphreys wins the Somerset Maugham Award for Hear and Forgive. New books English language Kingsley Amis – That Uncertain FeelingNick Bentley Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s https://books.google.com/books?id=EBTr-UKA-SUC&pg=PA303 2007 Peter Lang 978-3-03910-934-0 303 (Edwin) Stuart Evans – Elegy for the Death of a Clown (poem) Elisabeth Inglis-Jones – The Story of Wales T. E. Lawrence – The Mint (posthumously published)John Pateman T.E. Lawrence in Lincolnshire https://books.google.com/books?id=ePLQAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 2012 978-1-4717-6243-7 55 Lulu.com Dylan Thomas – A Child's Christmas in Wales (posthumously published)http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/dylan-thomas/pages/childs-christmas-in-wales.shtml Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas in Wales 6 November 2008 18 December 2010 BBC Wales R. S. Thomas – Song at the Year's Turning (poems)W. Moelwyn Merchant R.S. Thomas https://books.google.com/books?id=xsVLhl5rJmsC&pg=PA27 1979 University of Arkansas Press 978-1-61075-333-3 27 Richard Vaughan – Son of Justin Welsh language Gwilym Thomas Hughes – Ei Seren tan Gwmwl Robert Lloyd – Y PetheGeraldine Lublin Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia: Voices from a Settler Community in Argentina https://books.google.com/books?id=R-yVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA223 15 May 2017 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-968-9 223 Louie Myfanwy Thomas writing as Jane Ann Jones – Plant y FotyMeic Stephens The new companion to the literature of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ 23 September 1998 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1383-1 719 New drama Saunders Lewis – Siwan Music Grace Williams – Penillion Film Stanley Baker plays Richmond in Laurence Olivier's film of Richard III. The Constant Husband, starring Rex Harrison, with opening scenes filmed on location at New Quay and Aberaeron in 1954, includes some Welsh dialogue. Broadcasting The Welsh Home Service becomes available on VHF from Wenvoe Welsh-language television January – First televised Welsh-language play, Cap Wil Tomos English-language television Sport Cricket – Wilf Wooller becomes an England Test selector. Rugby Union 22 January – Ken Jones becomes Wales's most capped player (36) in a game against England. 12 March – Wales beat Ireland 21–3 at the National Stadium, Cardiff. 26 March – Wales win the Five Nations Championship for the fourth time this decade. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – John DisleyBBC Wales Sport Personality winners https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 BBC Sport 10 December 2012 29 July 2021 Births 22 January – Clive Griffiths, footballer (died 2022) 30 January – Ian Edwards, footballer 23 February – Howard Jones, English-born musician of Welsh parentagehttp://www.allmusic.com/artist/howard-jones-mn0000228099/biography Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine AllMusic.com 14 May 2009 4 March – Joey Jones, footballerhttps://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/Profile/338 Liverpool career stats for Joey Jones Liverpool FC 18 March 2020 17 March – John David Lewis, political scientist and historian 2 May – Peter Sayer, footballer 17 May – Nicola Heywood-Thomas, broadcaster and journalist (died 2023) 22 May – Maggie Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, politician 9 June – Alun Pugh, politicianhttps://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-31590 Pugh, Alun John Who's Who 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U31590 978-0-19-954088-4 18 March 2020 21 June (in Sunderland) – Janet Ryder, politicianhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/uk/wales/13101.stm People in the Assembly 1 September 1999 BBC News 26 October 2022 22 June – Green Gartside (Paul Julian Strohmeyer), musician 2 August – Alun Davies, biologist 3 August – Gordon Davies, footballer 4 August – Steve Jones, marathon runner 3 September – Eirian Williams, snooker referee 29 September – Gareth Davies, rugby player 12 October – Brian Flynn, footballer and managerhttps://www.porttalbotmagnet.com/brian-flynn/ Brian Flynn Port Talbot Magnet 18 March 2020February 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes 17 November – Amanda Levete, architect 7 December – Mihangel Morgan, author and academicInternational Who's who of Authors and Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=7bYRAQAAMAAJ 2008 Europa Publications, Taylor & Francis Group 518 date unknown Aled Gruffydd Jones, social historian, Librarian of National Library of Wales Martyn Jones, painterMoore David A Taste of the Avant-garde: 56 Group Wales 2012 Crooked Window Brecon, Powys 978-0-9563602-1-2 74 Deaths 5 January – Douglas Marsden-Jones, Wales and British Lions rugby player, 61 25 January – Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, clergyman and author, 84 26 January – Gwilym Davies, Baptist minister, 75 29 January – Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, politician, 89 19 March – Tom Evans, Wales international rugby player, 72 2 April – Billy O'Neill, Welsh international rugby player, 76 27 April – Ambrose Bebb, author, 60https://biography.wales/article/s2-BEBB-AMB-1894 Bebb, William Ambrose Thomas Parry Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 10 December 2019 19 May – Percy Bush, Wales international rugby union player, 75 21 June – Eric Evans, rugby union player and administrator, 61Owen O.L. Playfair Rugby Football Annual 1955–56 1956 Playfair Books Ltd London 13 July – Ruth Ellis, murderer, 28 (hanged)http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/pmortem.html Autopsy Report of Ruth Ellis 17 March 2019 28 August – Sir Lewis Lougher, businessman and politician, 83Obituary: Sir L. Lougher, Cardiff Shipowner The Times 30 August 1955 11 28 September – Lionel Rees, airman, Victoria Cross recipient, 71 14 October – Harry Parr Davies, songwriter, 41Billboard The Final Curtain https://books.google.com/books?id=2SMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48 22 October 1955 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 48 15 October – Thomas Jones (T. J.), founder of Coleg Harlech, 85Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) Trafodion Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas Y Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=K_ohAQAAIAAJ 1992 The Society 196 30 October – Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player, 83 1 November – Ronw Moelwyn Hughes, politician, 58 15 December – V. E. Nash-Williams, archaeologist, 58https://biography.wales/article/s2-NASH-ERL-1897 NASH-WILLIAMS, VICTOR ERLE George Counsell Boon Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 17 March 2019 date unknown – Melbourne Johns, munitions worker and wartime secret agent, 55 See also 1955 in Northern Ireland References Category:1955 in Europe Category:1950s in Wales