1946 in Wales

1946 in Wales

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1946 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland

Other events of 1946

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1946 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – vacant
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Archbishop of Wales – David Prosser, Bishop of St David's
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Crwys

Events

• 12 July – The Coal Industry Nationalisation Act is passed by Parliament.
• August
  • Arthur Horner becomes General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers.
  • Stocks of captured Nazi German bombs filled with Tabun (nerve agent) begin to be transferred from Llanberis to open storage at RAF Llandwrog.
• November – The highest ever temperature for this month in the UK is recorded at Prestatyn: 71°F (21.7°C).
• December - George Isaacs inaugurates the first Remploy factory, in Bridgend, with the aim of offering work to disabled ex-servicement.
• A pneumoconiosis research unit is established at Llandough Hospital near Cardiff, in recognition of the damage being caused to miners' health.

Arts and literature

• In the absence of a Prince of Wales, The Princess Elizabeth, heir presumptive to the throne, is admitted to the Gorsedd.
• The Welsh National Opera is founded.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Mountain Ash)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Geraint Bowen
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Rhydwen Williams
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Dafydd Jenkins

New books

Welsh language

• Pennar Davies – Cinio'r Cythraul
• Albert Evans-Jones (Cynan) – Ffarwel Weledig
• Thomas Rowland Hughes – Chwalfa
• John Gwilym Jones – Y Goeden Erin

English language

• Caradoc Evans – The Earth Gives All and Takes All
• Emyr Humphreys – Little Kingdom
• Dylan Thomas – Deaths and Entrances
• Gwyn Thomas – The Dark Philosophers

Music

• Daniel Jones – Scenes from the Mabinogion

Film

• London Town featuring Tessie O'Shea

Broadcasting

Sport

• Boxing – Wales stages its first-ever world title fight, in which lightweight Ronnie James is defeated by Ike Williams.

Births

• 10 January - Terry Cobner, rugby player
• 15 January – Roger Davis, cricketer
• 31 January – Bobby Windsor, rugby player
• 20 February – Mike Roberts, Wales and British Lion rugby player
• 21 March – Timothy Dalton, actor
• 2 April – Dai Llewellyn, socialite (d. 2009)
• 5 April – Russell Davies, journalist and broadcaster
• 13 April – Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
• 19 May – Androw Bennett, writer
• 6 June - Hywel Francis, politician
• 14 June – Glyn Berry, diplomat
• 6 August – Ron Davies, politician
• 12 August – Andrew McNeillie, poet and literary editor
• 3 October – Richie Morgan, professional footballer and manager
• 18 October – Dafydd Elis-Thomas, politician
• 26 November – Brian Hibbard, actor and singer (died 2012)
• 27 November – Kim Howells, politician
• 9 December- Mervyn Davies, rugby player
• date unknown – Tony Curtis, poet

Deaths

• 23 January – William Evans, Wales dual code international rugby player, 62
• 25 April – Arthur Jenkins, MP for Pontypool
• 14 March – Reg Thomas, athlete, 39
• 25 May – Ernest Rhys ("Mr Everyman"), writer, 86
• 1 June – Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, politician, 80
• 4 July - Taffy O'Callaghan, footballer, 39
• 15 July – William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician, 75
• 12 August – Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player, 82
• 4 November – Bill Morris, Wales international rugby player, 77
• 5 November – Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, author and patron of the arts in Wales, 66
• 24 November – Sydney Nicholls, Wales rugby international player, 78
• 6 December – Charles Butt Stanton MP, politician, 73
• date unknown
  • William Egan, footballer, 73 or 74
  • Vulcana, strongwoman, 70 or 71
  • Morris Williams, publisher, husband and collaborator of Kate Roberts