1947 in Wales

1947 in Wales
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1947 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1947

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1947 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

1 January - Nationalisation of the coal mining industry under the new National Coal Board.
1 March - Opening of Ysgol Gymraeg Dewi Sant, Llanelli, the first Welsh-medium school.
3 April - A British ship, the 1,580 ton Stancliffe, runs aground off Sharpness loaded with 3,000 tons of timber. Local shipyard engineer, Ivor Langford, manages to cut the vessel in two and sail both parts down to Cardiff Docks. There the two halves are joined together and the ship sails again under the new name of Gripfast.
23 April - Wreck of the Samtampa on Sker rocks and loss of the Mumbles life-boat, Edward, Prince of Wales.
September - Cardiff Castle is donated by the Marquess of Bute to the city of Cardiff.
12 November - Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton inadvertently reveals some of the contents of his Budget while on his way to the House of Commons to deliver his speech, effectively finishing his political career.^[1]
13 December - Royal Naval Air Station Dale, Pembrokeshire, closes.
Founded in this year are:
- Age Concern Cymru.
- Steel Company of Wales.
- Wales Gas Board.
Sir Frederick John Alban becomes President of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Chairman of the Welsh Hospitals Board.
David Brynmor Anthony is awarded the Médaille de Vermeil de la Reconnaissance Française by the government of France.
Ifan ab Owen Edwards is knighted.

Cricket - Wilf Wooller is appointed Captain-Secretary of Glamorgan CCC.
Rugby Union
- 20 December - Wales beat Australia 6–0 at the National Stadium, Cardiff.

2 February – Frank Hennessy, folk singer and radio presenter
5 February - Paul James Wheeler, rugby player
22 February - Bleddyn Williams, rugby player
12 March - Rod Richards, politician
18 March - Roger Kenneth Evans, politician
27 March - Craig Defoy, golfer
27 April - Pete Ham, musician (died 1975)
1 June - Jonathan Pryce, actor
4 June - Mickey Evans footballer)
12 June - Alwyn Pritchard, statistician
12 July - Gareth Edwards, rugby player
17 July - Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
2 August - Iolo Ceredig Jones, chess player
30 August - Alwyn Jones, biophysicist
9 September - Clive Shell, rugby player (died 2012)
24 September (in Loughborough) - Mick Bates AM, politician
5 October
- Dennis Avoth, heavyweight boxer
- Phil Carradice, writer and broadcaster
16 October
- Steve Derrett, footballer
- Terry Griffiths, snooker player
29 October - Val Feld, politician (died 2001)
16 November - Vaughan Hughes, journalist
5 December - Don Touhig, politician
date unknown
- Douglas Davies, theologian

10 January - Lillie Goodisson, nurse, late 80s
26 February - Percy Phillips OBE, Wales international rugby player and civil servant
16 March - Jack Powell, footballer, 86
26 March - Charles Alexander Harris, governor of Newfoundland, 91
15 May - Arthur Harding, Wales international rugby union captain, 68
23 May - Richard Griffith (Carneddog), poet and journalist, 85
25 May - Samuel Clark, rugby official and international rugby player
20 June - Sir John Edward Lloyd, historian, 86
30 June - Jerry Shea, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player, 54
5 July - Jack Evans Wales international rugby player, 72
7 July
- James Henry Howard, minister and writer, 70
- Johnny Basham, boxer, 56
23 July - David James Jones, philosopher, 60
12 October - William Brace, politician, 82
18 October - Alexander Bland, Wales international rugby player, 80
22 November - James J. Davis, United States politician, 74
23 November - Sir George Lockwood Morris, industrialist and Welsh international rugby player, 88
15 December - Arthur Machen, writer, 74
23 December - John Samuel, Wales international rugby player

↑ Pimlott, Ben (2004). "Dalton, (Edward) Hugh Neale, Baron Dalton (1887–1962)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32697. Retrieved 2015-01-28. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ "Llangollen International Eisteddfod - How it Started". Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. Retrieved 2012-05-08.