1958 in Wales

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1958 in the United Kingdom

1958 in Ireland

Other events of 1958

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1958 to Wales and its people.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Awards 3.2 New books 3.3 New drama 3.4 Music 4 Film 5 Broadcasting 5.1 Welsh-language television 5.2 English-language television 6 Sports 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Charles, Prince of Wales
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archbishop of Wales - Edwin Morris
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - William Morris

[edit] Events

• 18 January - Nigel Birch resigns as Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
• 25 February - The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is launched by Bertrand Russell.
• 6 May - Murderer Vivian Teed is hanged in Swansea - the last execution to take place in Wales.
• 26 July - At the Empire Games in Cardiff, the Queen announces that her son, Prince Charles, is to be created Prince of Wales.
• 6 August - Daniel Granville West becomes the first Welsh life peer.
• Huw T. Edwards leaves the Labour Party for Plaid Cymru in protest at the decision to flood the Tryweryn valley.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Ebbw Vale)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - T. Llew Jones
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Llew Jones
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Edward Cynolwyn Pugh

[edit] New books

• Brenda Chamberlain - The Green Heart
• Aneirin Talfan Davies - Englynion a Chywyddau
• Islwyn Ffowc Elis - Blas y Cynfyd
• Cyril Fox - Pattern and purpose: a study of early Celtic art in Britain
• Peter George - Red Alert
• Bobi Jones - Nid yw Dwr yn Plygu
• D. Gwenallt Jones - Cofiant Idwal Jones
• Bertrand Russell - Understanding History and Other Essays
• Ernest Llwyd Williams - Crwydro Sir Benfro
• Raymond Williams - Culture and Society

[edit] New drama

• George Fisher - Y Ferch a'r Dewin
• Saunders Lewis - Brad

[edit] Music

• Daniel Jones - The Country Beyond the Stars (cantata)

[edit] Film

• Richard Burton stars in the film version of Look Back in Anger.

[edit] Broadcasting

• In order to broadcast the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from Cardiff, a broadcasting centre is set up on the bank of the River Taff, near Cardiff Arms Park.

[edit] Welsh-language television

• Commercial TV becomes available in Wales, broadcasting some Welsh-language programmes.

[edit] English-language television

• Gwlad y Gân / Land of Song, with Ivor Emmanuel and Sian Hopkins

[edit] Sports

• British Empire and Commonwealth Games (held in Cardiff):
  • Wales's only gold medal is won by Howard Winstone in the bantamweight boxing competition.
  • Silver medals are won by: John Merriman (6 miles), Malcolm Collins (featherweight boxing), and Robert Higgins (light-heavyweight boxing).
• Football - Wales reaches the quarter-finals of the World Cup.
• Gymnastics - Margaret Neale of Cardiff is the British Women's Champion for the second year running.
• Welsh Sports Personality of the Year - Howard Winstone

[edit] Births

• 4 January - Gary Jones, actor
• 2 March - Ian Woosnam, golfer
• 30 April - Claire Curtis-Thomas, politician
• 3 July - Siân Lloyd, television presenter
• 18 July - Chris Ruane, politician
• 19 July - Angharad Tomos, author
• 3 September - Tamsin Dunwoody, politician
• 4 October - Anneka Rice, television presenter
• 24 November - Robin Llywelyn, novelist
• date unknown - Caryl Parry Jones, singer

[edit] Deaths

• 1 February - Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst, 79
• 6 February - Charles Langbridge Morgan, novelist and dramatist, 64
• 19 April - Billy Meredith, footballer, 83
• 20 July - Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda, political campaigner and businesswoman, 75
• 25 September - Henry Arthur Evans, politician, 60
• 9 October - Sven Hansen, ship-owner, 82
• 28 November - Gareth Jones, actor, 33
• date unknown - Ivor Lewis, Welsh-Canadian artist, 76