1935 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1935 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 6 April â Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry.[3]
- 23 April â Morriston Orpheus Choir is founded by Ivor E. Sims.[4]
- 17 June â The first detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar is achieved by a team including Edward George Bowen.[5]
- October â At Nine Mile Point Colliery in Cwmfelinfach[6] 164 miners take part in a "stay-down" strike action lasting 177 hours over the use of non-union labour.
- 14 November â In the UK general election:
- Megan Lloyd George reverts from Independent Liberal to Liberal MP after a four-year estrangement from the party leadership.
- Newly elected MPs include Arthur Jenkins at Pontypool.
- 3 December â Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli becomes the first in the UK to sell beer in cans.[7]
- date unknown
- Ten people are jailed at Blaina and a further 32 at Merthyr Tydfil during a period of industrial unrest in South Wales.
- Penallta Colliery takes the European record for amount of coal wound in a 24-hour period.[8]
Arts and literature
- Arwel Hughes joins the BBC's music department in Cardiff.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair â E. Gwyndaf Evans[9]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown â Gwilym R. Jones
New books
English language
- Rhys Davies â Honey and Bread
- Walford Davies â The Pursuit of Music[10]
- Geraint Goodwin â Call Back Yesterday
- Llewelyn Wyn Griffith â Spring of Youth[11]
- Jack Jones â Black Parade
- Eiluned Lewis â December Apples (poems)[12]
- Bertrand Russell â Religion and Science
- Howard Spring â Rachel Rosing[13]
Welsh language
- Thomas Parry (ed) â Baledi'r Ddeunawfed Ganrif
- Ifor Williams (editor) â Canu Llywarch Hen[14]
New drama
- James Kitchener Davies â Cwm Glo[15]
- Emlyn Williams â Night Must Fall
- Stephen J. Williams â Y dyn hysbys: comedi mewn tair act
Music
- John Glyn Davies â Cerddi Robin Goch
- Ivor Novello â Glamorous Night
Film
- Y Chwarelwr, the first Welsh language film[16]
- Pink Shirts, an amateur film made by the Marquess of Anglesey and his family and written by Peter Fleming, satirizing the British Fascist movement.
Broadcasting
- April â John Reith, head of the BBC, meets a deputation from the University of Wales and Welsh MPs, and agrees to Wales becoming a BBC region.[17]
- November â The BBC opens a studio in Bangor.[17]
- date unknown â The BBC Welsh Orchestra, originally founded in 1928, is re-established as a 20-piece ensemble.[18]
Sport
- Rugby
- 28 September â Swansea is the first British club to defeat a touring New Zealand side[19] and becomes the first team, club or international, to beat all three major touring Southern Hemisphere countries.
Births
- 13 January â Vincent Kane, broadcaster
- 4 February â Brian Davies, animal welfare activist (died 2022)[20]
- 7 February â Cliff Jones, footballer
- 9 February â Paul Flynn, politician (died 2019)[21]
- 27 March â Tom Parry Jones, inventor (died 2013)[22]
- 29 March â Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone (died 2001)[23]
- 8 April â Islwyn Jones, footballer[24]
- 2 May â Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, politician (died 2010)[25]
- 25 May â John Ffowcs Williams, engineer[26]
- 27 May â Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, born in Liverpool (shot by police 1976 in the United States)[27]
- 30 May â Brayley Reynolds, footballer
- 24 June â Garfield Davies, trade unionist and politician (died 2019)[28]
- 26 July â George Evans, footballer (died 2000)
- 1 August â Brian Jenkins, footballer
- 5 August â Kingsley Jones, rugby player (died 2003)
- 5 October â Colin Hudson, footballer (died 2005)
- 23 October â Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno, politician[29]
- November â Ivor Davies, painter and installation artist
- 30 November â Sally Roberts Jones, poet and publisher[30]
- 21 December â Geoff Lewis, jockey[31]
- 31 December â Edwin Regan, Roman Catholic bishop[32]
Deaths
- 1 February â John Aeron Thomas, industrialist and politician, 84[33]
- 15 February â Tom Reason, cricketer, 44
- March â William Frost, inventor, 86[34]
- 3 March â Caradog Roberts, composer, 46[35]
- 13 March â Francis Vaughan, Roman Catholic bishop, 57 (post-operative complications)[36]
- 14 March â Thomas Lloyd, Anglican Bishop of Maenan, 77[37]
- 20 March â Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68[38]
- 23 March â John Gwynoro Davies, minister and author, 80[39]
- 24 March â Maurice Parry, footballer, 57
- 9 May â John Goulstone Lewis, Wales international rugby union player, 75
- 18 May â T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia", 46 (motorcycle accident)[40]
- 1 July â Bill Evans, rugby player, 78[41]
- 19 July â Tom Jones, cricketer, 34
- 12 August â Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George, 29 (murdered in Manchukuo)[42]
- 21 August â Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician, 94[43]
- 20 September â Teddy Peers, footballer, 48
- 10 October â Samuel Evans, educationist[44]
- 31 October â Noah Ablett, politician, 52 (alcohol-related)[45]
- 27 November â Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer, 73[46]
- 7 December â Griffith Evans, bacteriologist, 100[47]
- 13 December â Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90[48]