1937 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1937 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – vacant
- Princess of Wales – vacant
- Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – J.J.
Events
- 30 June - The Aid to Spain movement welcomes the arrival at Swansea railway station of the first Basque refugee children to come to Wales.[1]
- 16 July - George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit Aberystwyth to open the new building at the National Library of Wales.
- 27 August - Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams are released from Wormwood Scrubs to the plaudits of nationalist supporters, having served a nine-month sentence for the arson attack on the Penrhos "bombing school".
- The South Wales Regional Council of Labour is formed.
- The Urdd launches the first Welsh books campaign.
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 (held in Machynlleth)
- 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[2]
New books
- Ambrose Bebb - Y Ddeddf Uno 1536
- David Jones - In Parenthesis
- Eiluned Lewis & Peter Lewis - The Land of Wales
- T. J. Morgan - Dal Llygoden Ac Ysgrifau Eraill
- John Cowper Powys - Morwyn: or The Vengeance of God
- Ernest Rhys - Song of the Sun
- Lewis Jones - Cwmardy
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
- 15 March - Tommy Farr wins the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles.
- 30 August - Farr loses on points to Joe Louis.
Births
- 8 January - Shirley Bassey, singer
- 22 January - Ryan Davies, entertainer (died 1977)
- 24 January - Trevor Edwards, footballer
- 18 February - Donald Braithwaite, boxer
- 13 March - Martin Thomas, Baron Thomas of Gresford, politician
- 21 March - Ann Clwyd, politician
- 27 May - Danny Harris, rugby player
- 8 June
- Gillian Clarke, poet
- John Williams, snooker referee
- 14 August - Brian Curvis, Welterweight boxer (died 2012)
- 7 September - Clive Everton, snooker commentator
- 14 September - Fenton Coles, rugby player
- 30 September - Gary Hocking, motorcycle road racer (died 1962)
- 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
- Trebor Edwards, singer
- Prys Morgan, historian
Deaths
- 15 January - Arthur Cheetham, pioneering film maker, 72
- 2 February - Hugh Ingledew, Wales international rugby player, 71
- April - Jack Doughty, footballer, 71
- 21 April - Kenneth Morris, Theosophist writer, 57
- 28 April - Frederick Guest, politician, 61
- 15 May - George Thomson, footballer, 82
- 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
- 26 June - Jackie Benyon, footballer (peritonitis)
- 22 July - Alfred George Edwards, former Archbishop of Wales, 88
- 22 October - William Penfro Rowlands, hymn-writer, 77
- 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
- 26 December - Dan Beddoe, popular singer, 74
References
- ↑ Francis, Hywel (2012). Miners against fascism: Wales and the Spanish Civil War. Lawrence & Wishart. p. x. ISBN 978-1-907103-51-3.
- ↑ National Eisteddfod website
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