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