1943 in Wales

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1942 | 1944 | Other years in Wales

1943 in the United Kingdom

1943 in Ireland

Other events of 1943

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1943 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 - Charles Alfred Howell Green
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Crwys

[edit] Events

• 29 January - In the by-election for the University of Wales seat vacated by Ernest Evans, there are three notable candidates. W. J. Gruffydd, a former vice-president of Plaid Cymru who had subsequently joined the Liberal Party, triumphs over Plaid's Saunders Lewis. One of the other candidates is Alun Talfan Davies.
• 23 October - David Lloyd George marries his secretary, Frances Stevenson.
• Sir Percy Thomas is elected President of R.I.B.A. for the second time - the second person every to achieve this.

[edit] Arts and literature

• The Welsh National Opera company is founded in Cardiff.

[edit] Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys James
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Dafydd Owen
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld

[edit] New books

• Idris Davies - The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926
• Rhys John Davies - Pobl a Phethau
• Sir Emrys Evans - Ewthaffron: Criton (translation from Plato)
• William Evans (Wil Ifan) - A Quire of Rhymes
• R. T. Jenkins - Orinda
• Alwyn D. Rees - Adfeilion

[edit] Music

• Arwel Hughes - Antiomaros
• W. S. Gwynn Williams - Tosturi Duw (God's Mercy)

[edit] Film

• Ray Milland stars in Forever and a Day and The Crystal Ball.

[edit] Broadcasting

• Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from a bomber over Berlin for BBC Radio.

[edit] Sport

[edit] Births

• 13 January - Laura Sage, critic
• 11 February - Win Griffiths MP, politician
• 3 March - Aeronwy Thomas, literary figure
• 1 April - Dafydd Wigley MP, politician
• 16 April - Ruth Madoc, actress and singer
• 26 April - Leon Pownall, actor and director
• 27 April - Gwyn Prosser MP, politician
• 2 August - Alun Michael MP, politician
• 17 August - John Humphrys, TV and radio journalist
• 24 August - Dafydd Iwan, musician and politician
• 16 November - Val Lloyd AM, politician
• 28 December - Joan Ruddock MP, politician
• date unknown
  • John Beard, artist
  • Elinor Bennett, harpist
  • Karl Francis, filmmaker
  • Sir Terry Matthews, entrepreneur

[edit] Deaths

• 31 January - Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, physician, 85
• 1 March - Clara Novello Davies, singer, 71
• 23 March - Commander John Wallace Linton, VC, 37
• 28 March - Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85
• 12 April - Arthur Lloyd James, phonetician
• 17 April - Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), author, 90
• 15 October - Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, lawyer, 72
• 27 December - Arthur O'Bree, Glamorgan cricketer, 57