1949 in Wales

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1948 | 1950 | Other years in Wales

1949 in the United Kingdom

1949 in Ireland

Other events of 1949

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1949 to Wales and its people.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Awards 3.2 New books 3.3 Music 4 Film 5 Broadcasting 6 Sport 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archbishop of Wales - John Morgan

[edit] Events

• September 21 - A meteorite falls through the roof of the Prince Llewelyn Hotel, Beddgelert.
• December 26 - The Gwyn Nicholls memorial gates at Cardiff Arms Park are officially opened.
• Gwynfor Evans is elected to Merionethshire County Council.
• Closure of the granite quarry at Llanbedrog.

[edit] Arts and literature

• Geraint Evans stars in The Marriage of Figaro at Covent Garden.
• Dylan and Caitlin Thomas settle at the Boat House, Laugharne.

[edit] Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Dolgellau)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Roland Jones
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - John Tudor James
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld

[edit] New books

• Dannie Abse - After Every Green Thing
• Aneirin Talfan Davies - Gwyr Llen
• Cledwyn Hughes (writer) - A Wanderer in North Wales
• Kate Roberts - Stryd y Glep
• Bertrand Russell - Authority and the Individual
• Gwyn Thomas – All Things Betray Thee

[edit] Music

• Ivor Novello - King's Rhapsody

[edit] Film

• Blue Scar, starring Kenneth Griffith and Rachel Thomas
• The Last Days of Dolwyn, starring Emlyn Williams, Richard Burton and Hugh Griffith
• Yr Etifeddiaeth (The Heritage), documentary by Geoff Charles and John Roberts Williams, depicting traditional ways of life in rural North Wales, with narration by Cynan.
• The Fruitful Year, a promotional film about Wales, commissioned by the Post Office National Savings.
• The Road to Yesterday, travelogue made for troops serving abroad.

[edit] Broadcasting

[edit] Sport

• Football - John Charles joins Leeds United.
• Netball - The Welsh team plays its first international matches, against Scotland and England.

[edit] Births

• 2 March - J. P. R. Williams, rugby player
• 22 March - John Toshack, footballer and football manager
• 22 May - Ieuan Wyn Jones, politician
• 22 May - Derek Quinnell, rugby player
• 5 June - Ken Follett, novelist
• 14 June - Alan Evans, darts player (died 1999)
• 24 October - Nick Ainger, politician
• 18 November - William Graham, politician
• 15 December - Jane Hutt, politician (in Epsom)
• date unknown - Alun Ffred Jones, politician

[edit] Deaths

• 21 January - Jimmy Thomas, politician
• 7 March - T. Gwynn Jones ("Tir-na-Nog"), poet and journalist
• 8 May - Abel J. Jones, teacher, writer and public servant
• 16 December - George Maitland Lloyd Davies, pacifist politician
• date unknown - T. Rowland Hughes, author