1937 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1937 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
- James Gomer Berry becomes chairman of Kemsley Newspapers Ltd.
- The Prose Medal is awarded for the first time at the National Eisteddfod.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - T. Rowland Hughes
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - J. M. Edwards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - J. O. Williams[1]
New books
Music
Film
- Ray Milland appears in five new films, including Ebb Tide.
Broadcasting
- 1 February - A new transmitter is opened at Penmon, Anglesey, to bring the West and Wales Regional Programme to North Wales.
- 4 July - Following the alteration of frequencies at the BBC's Washford transmitter to enable it to radiate separate regional services for Wales and the West of England, a new Welsh Regional Programme begins, broadcast from Washford and Penmon on 804 kHz.
Sport
- Billiards - Horace Coles wins the World Amateur Billiards Championship.
- Boxing
Births
- 8 January - Shirley Bassey, singer
- 22 January - Ryan Davies, entertainer (died 1977)
- 24 January - Trevor Edwards, footballer
- 13 March - Martin Thomas, Baron Thomas of Gresford, politician
- 21 March - Ann Clwyd, politician
- 27 May - Danny Harris, rugby player
- 8 June
- 14 August - Brian Curvis, Welterweight boxer
- 7 September - Clive Everton, snooker commentator
- 30 September - Gary Hocking, motorcycle road racer
- 5 October - Iwan Edwards, choral conductor (in Canada)
- 6 October - David Morgan, cricket administrator
- 30 October - Brian Price, rugby player
- 8 December - Malcolm Price, rugby player
- 30 December - Saunders Davies, Anglican bishop
- 31 December - Sir Anthony Hopkins, actor
- date unknown
Deaths
- 15 January - Arthur Cheetham, pioneering film maker
- 2 February - Hugh Ingledew, Wales international rugby player, 71
- 21 April - Kenneth Morris, Theosophist writer, 57
- 28 April - Frederick Edward Guest, politician, 61
- 18 May - Idwal Jones, schoolmaster, poet and dramatist, 41
- 20 May - Walter Davis, footballer, 48 (drowned)
- 5 June - Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant, shipping magnate, 74
- 22 July - Alfred George Edwards, former Archbishop of Wales, 88
- 23 October - Stephen Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 72
- 1 November - William Alexander, Wales international rugby player, 63
- 25 November - David Lewis Davies, politician, 64
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