1933 in Wales

1933 in Wales
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1933 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1933

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1933 to Wales and its people.

Contents

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Arts and literature
4 Film
5 Broadcasting
6 Sport
7 Births
8 Deaths

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V
Princess of Wales - vacant
Archbishop of Wales - Alfred George Edwards

Events

28 March - Rhondda East by-election
20 April - 28 people are injured at Cockett station when a loco travelling from Swansea to Neyland collided into the rear of the stationary 11.55am Paddington to Milford Haven service
22 July - Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison take off from Pendine on the first non-stop flight from the UK to the US.
Seven men and four women receive custodial sentences after a riot at Bedwas.
Ronald Lockley establishes the first British bird observatory on Skokholm.

Arts and literature

Percy Cudlipp becomes editor of the Evening Standard – the youngest ever editor of a British national newspaper.

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Wrexham)

National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Edgar Phillips
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Simon B. Jones

New books

D. J. Davies – The Economic History of South Wales
Caradoc Evans - Wasps
Lily Tobias - Eunice Fleet

Music

Film

Broadcasting

28 May - The BBC begins broadcasting the Welsh Regional Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
17 July - The BBC begins broadcasting the National Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
The first broadcast is made from the Urdd Eisteddfod.

Sport

Rugby union, although collecting the 'wooden spoon' in the Home Nations Championship, Wales beat England at Twickenham for the very first time, after ten previous attempts.

Births

7 February - Stuart Burrows, opera singer
21 March - Michael Heseltine, politician
3 April - Alan Watkins, political journalist (d. 2010)
14 May - Siân Phillips, actress
20 June - Dai Dower, British, European and Empire Flyweight Boxing Champion
30 June - John Faull, Wales international and British Lion rugby player
24 September - Terry Davies, Wales rugby captain and British Lion
12 November - Jeffrey Thomas, politician (d. 1989)
17 November - Alan Harrington, former professional footballer
31 December - Glyn Davidge, Wales international and British Lion rugby player
date unknown
- Bedwyr Lewis Jones, writer
- Gwilym Jenkins, statistician

Deaths

14 January - Sir Robert Jones, orthopaedic surgeon (baronet), 75
18 January - John Thomas, chemist (ICI), 46
2 February - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician, 76
15 February - Jere Blake, Wales international rugby player, 47/48
23 February - David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East, 65
4 April - Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet, 82
29 May - Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer, 84
16 July - John Tudor Walters, politician, 64/65
10 August - Alf Morgans, Prime Minister of Western Australia, 83
13 September - David Morgan, Wales international rugby player, 61
20 September - Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player, 76
17 October - Sid Bevan, Wales international rugby union player, 56
18 October - Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen, soldier and politician, 82
10 November - Herbert Lewis, politician, 74