1935 In Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1935 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

* Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor
* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Gwili

Events

* 6 April – Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry.
*23 April – Morriston Orpheus Choir is founded by Ivor E. Sims.
*17 June – The first detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar is achieved by a team including Edward George Bowen.
*October – At Nine Mile Point Colliery in Cwmfelinfach 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.
*''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.

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 Evans
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Gwilym R. Jones

New books

English language

* Rhys Davies – ''Honey and Bread''
* Walford Davies – ''The Pursuit of Music''
* Geraint Goodwin – ''Call Back Yesterday''
* Llewelyn Wyn Griffith – ''Spring of Youth''
*Jack Jones – ''Black Parade''
* Eiluned Lewis – ''December Apples'' (poems)
* Bertrand Russell – ''Religion and Science''
* Howard Spring – ''Rachel Rosing''

Welsh language

*Thomas Parry (ed) – ''Baledi'r Ddeunawfed Ganrif''
* Ifor Williams (editor) – ''Canu Llywarch Hen''

New drama

* James Kitchener Davies – ''Cwm Glo''
* 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 film
*''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.
*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.

Sport

* Rugby
**28 September – Swansea is the first British club to defeat a touring New Zealand side 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)
*7 February – Cliff Jones, footballer
* 9 February – Paul Flynn, politician (died 2019)
*27 March – Tom Parry Jones, inventor (died 2013)
*29 March – Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone (died 2001)
* 8 April – Islwyn Jones, footballer
*2 May – Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, politician (died 2010)
*25 May – John Ffowcs Williams, engineer
*27 May – Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, born in Liverpool (shot by police 1976 in the United States)
*30 May – Brayley Reynolds, footballer
*24 June – Garfield Davies, trade unionist and politician (died 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, politician
*November – Ivor Davies, painter and installation artist
*30 November – Sally Roberts Jones, poet and publisher
*21 December – Geoff Lewis, jockey
*31 December – Edwin Regan, Roman Catholic bishop

Deaths

*1 February – John Aeron Thomas, industrialist and politician, 84
*15 February – Tom Reason, cricketer, 44
*March – William Frost, inventor, 86
*3 March – Caradog Roberts, composer, 46
*13 March – Francis Vaughan, Roman Catholic bishop, 57 (post-operative complications)
*14 March – Thomas Lloyd, Anglican Bishop of Maenan, 77
*20 March – Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68
*23 March – John Gwynoro Davies, minister and author, 80
* 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)
* 1 July – Bill Evans, rugby player, 78
*19 July – Tom Jones, cricketer, 34
*12 August – Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George, 29 (murdered in Manchukuo)
*21 August – Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician, 94
*20 September – Teddy Peers, footballer, 48
*10 October – Samuel Evans, educationist
*31 October – Noah Ablett, politician, 52 (alcohol-related)
*27 November – Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer, 73
* 7 December – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist, 100
*13 December – Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90

See also

*1935 in Northern Ireland

References

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