1953 in Wales

1953 in Wales
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1953 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1953

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1953 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

7 March - A "St David's Day" pageant is held in the streets of London.
1 June - In the Queen's Coronation Honours List, VC recipient Ted Chapman is awarded the British Empire Medal.
9 July - The Queen makes her first visit to Wales since coming to the throne.
2 December - Llandudno experiences unusually warm weather as a result of the "foehn effect".
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is established in Wales.
Goronwy Rees becomes Principal of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Sir Grismond Picton Philipps is knighted.

Dorothy Squires marries Roger Moore.
Thomas Parry (later Sir Thomas) becomes head of the National Library of Wales.
Waldo Williams leaves the Baptist denomination and becomes a Quaker.
Robert Frank photographs a Glamorgan mining village for U.S.Camera.
Susan Williams-Ellis joins her father, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, in his work on the village of Portmeirion.

8 June - Geraint Evans appears in the première of Benjamin Britten's Gloriana.

6 January - The Broadcasting Council for Wales meets for the first time.
January - Edward Williamson, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, broadcasts a lecture on Henry Vaughan on BBC radio.

1 March - First broadcast of a television programme entirely in Welsh: a religious service from the Tabernacle Baptist Chapel, Cardiff.

10 February - Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans
11 April - Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM, politician
12 April - Huw Edwards, Labour politician, MP for Monmouth 1991-1992 and 1997–2005
8 June - Bonnie Tyler, singer
11 July - Nigel Rees, footballer
20 July - Dave Evans, singer
10 August - Gillian Elisa, actress, singer, and comedienne
2 September - Keith Allen, comedian and actor
28 October - Phil Dwyer, footballer
16 November - Griff Rhys Jones, actor, comedian and television presenter

10 January - Howell Elvet Lewis ("Elved"), poet and Archdruid, 92
7 March - Jack Williams, Victoria Cross recipient, 66
20 March - Fred Parfitt, Wales international rugby player, 83
24 March - Mary of Teck, Princess of Wales 1910-1936 and Queen 1936-1952, 85
6 April - Idris Davies, poet, 48
30 April - Sir David Rocyn-Jones, medical practitioner and President of the WRU, 90
2 May - Thomas Mardy Rees, author
5 June - "Moelona" (Elizabeth Mary Jones), 75
18 June - Reg Plummer, Wales and British Lion rugby union player, 64
9 November - Dylan Thomas, poet, 39
11 November - John Glyn Davies, poet and children's writer, 83
26 November - Sir Ivor Atkins, organist and choirmaster, 83
27 November - T. F. Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer, 77
17 December - David Rees Griffiths, poet, 71