1935 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1935 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor^[1]
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Gwili^[2]

Events

• 6 April – Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry.^[3]
• 23 April – Morriston Orpheus Choir is founded by Ivor E. Sims.^[4]
• 17 June – The first detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar is achieved by a team including Edward George Bowen.^[5]
• October – 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 – 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 – 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 – E. Gwyndaf Evans^[9]
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Gwilym R. Jones

New books

English language

• Rhys Davies – Honey and Bread
• Walford Davies – The Pursuit of Music^[10]
• Geraint Goodwin – Call Back Yesterday
• Llewelyn Wyn Griffith – Spring of Youth^[11]
• Jack Jones – Black Parade
• Eiluned Lewis – December Apples (poems)^[12]
• Bertrand Russell – Religion and Science
• Howard Spring – Rachel Rosing^[13]

Welsh language

• Thomas Parry (ed) – Baledi'r Ddeunawfed Ganrif
• Ifor Williams (editor) – Canu Llywarch Hen^[14]

New drama

• James Kitchener Davies – Cwm Glo^[15]
• Emlyn Williams – Night Must Fall
• Stephen J. Williams – Y dyn hysbys: comedi mewn tair act

Music

• John Glyn Davies – Cerddi Robin Goch
• Ivor Novello – 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 – 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 – The BBC opens a studio in Bangor.^[17]
• date unknown – The BBC Welsh Orchestra, originally founded in 1928, is re-established as a 20-piece ensemble.^[18]

Sport

• • • Rugby 28 September – 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 – Vincent Kane, broadcaster
• 4 February – Brian Davies, animal welfare activist (died 2022)^[20]
• 7 February – Cliff Jones, footballer
• 9 February – Paul Flynn, politician (died 2019)^[21]
• 27 March – Tom Parry Jones, inventor (died 2013)^[22]
• 29 March – Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone (died 2001)^[23]
• 8 April – Islwyn Jones, footballer^[24]
• 2 May – Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, politician (died 2010)^[25]
• 25 May – John Ffowcs Williams, engineer^[26]
• 27 May – Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, born in Liverpool (shot by police 1976 in the United States)^[27]
• 30 May – Brayley Reynolds, footballer
• 24 June – Garfield Davies, trade unionist and politician (died 2019)^[28]
• 26 July – George Evans, footballer (died 2000)
• 1 August – Brian Jenkins, footballer
• 5 August – Kingsley Jones, rugby player (died 2003)
• 5 October – Colin Hudson, footballer (died 2005)
• 23 October – Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno, politician^[29]
• November – Ivor Davies, painter and installation artist
• 30 November – Sally Roberts Jones, poet and publisher^[30]
• 21 December – Geoff Lewis, jockey^[31]
• 31 December – Edwin Regan, Roman Catholic bishop^[32]

Deaths

• 1 February – John Aeron Thomas, industrialist and politician, 84^[33]
• 15 February – Tom Reason, cricketer, 44
• March – William Frost, inventor, 86^[34]
• 3 March – Caradog Roberts, composer, 46^[35]
• 13 March – Francis Vaughan, Roman Catholic bishop, 57 (post-operative complications)^[36]
• 14 March – Thomas Lloyd, Anglican Bishop of Maenan, 77
• 20 March – Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68^[37]
• 23 March – John Gwynoro Davies, minister and author, 80^[38]
• 24 March – Maurice Parry, footballer, 57
• 9 May – John Goulstone Lewis, Wales international rugby union player, 75
• 18 May – T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia", 46 (motorcycle accident)^[39]
• 1 July – Bill Evans, rugby player, 78^[40]
• 19 July – Tom Jones, cricketer, 34
• 12 August – Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George, 29 (murdered in Manchukuo)^[41]
• 21 August – Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician, 94^[42]
• 20 September – Teddy Peers, footballer, 48
• 10 October – Samuel Evans, educationist^[43]
• 31 October – Noah Ablett, politician, 52 (alcohol-related)^[44]
• 27 November – Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer, 73^[45]
• 7 December – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist, 100^[46]
• 13 December – Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90^[47]

See also

• 1935 in Northern Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: C. J. Litzenberger. Eileen Groth Lyon. The Human Tradition in Modern Britain. 2006. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-7425-3735-4. 92.
2. s-JENK-GWI-1872 . Jenkins, John (Gwili) (1872-1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters . Robert Thomas Jenkins . 1959 . 2 November 2021.
3. Book: The Railway Magazine. 1988. IPC Business Press. 181.
4. Web site: The Choir 1935-1985. Alun Howells. Morriston Orpheus Choir. 16 August 2019.
5. Book: C.S.I.R.O. Radiophysics Laboratory. CSIRO (Australia). Radiophysics Laboratory. A Textbook of Radar. 1954. CUP Archive. 3.
6. Web site: Nine Mile Point. Welsh Coal Mines. 2017-12-24.
7. Book: John Dallas. Charles McMaster. The beer drinker's companion: facts, fables and folklore from the world of beer. 23 September 1993. Edinburgh Publishing Company. 978-1-874201-14-4. 120.
8. Web site: Penallta Colliery. Welsh Coal Mines. 2017-12-24.
9. Book: Meic Stephens. The new companion to the literature of Wales. 23 September 1998. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-1383-1.
10. Book: Library of Congress. Copyright Office. Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1935. 1936. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. 1948–.
11. http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?coll_id=20445 National Library of Wales
12. Book: Meic Stephens. A Book of Wales: an anthology. 1 April 1987. J.M. Dent.
13. Book: George Watson. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature:. 2 July 1971. CUP Archive. 391–. GGKEY:64CF45KC7C0.
14. Book: Albrecht Classen. Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms – Methods – Trends. 29 November 2010. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3-11-021558-8. 1412.
15. Book: Ioan Williams . Baz Kershaw . Towards national identities: Welsh theatres . The Cambridge History of British Theatre . 3 . https://books.google.com/books?id=rvcGBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA254 . 2004 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-65132-5 . 254.
16. Book: The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. 2008. 9780708319536. 142.
17. Book: Thomas Hajkowski. The BBC and National Identity in Britain, 1922-53. 21 February 2017. Oxford University Press. 978-1-5261-1884-4. 180.
18. Book: Kenneth O. Morgan. Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880-1980. 1981. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-821736-7. 251.
19. Book: John Binley George Thomas. Great Rugger Matches: Forty-one Historic Matches from 1871 to 1958. 1959. Stanley Paul. 90.
20. News: Brian Davies obituary: 4 February 1935 – 27 December 2022 . 29 December 2022 . Network For Animals . 28 December 2022.
21. News: Paul Flynn obituary . . 18 February 2019 . Julia Langdon . Julia . Langdon.
22. News: Tom Parry Jones . The Telegraph . 15 January 2013 . 18 February 2019.
23. Web site: Bryn-Jones, Delme (1934-2001), opera singer . Trevor Herbert . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . 26 May 2019.
24. Book: Shepherd, Richard . The Definitive: Cardiff City F.C. . SoccerData Publications . 2002 . 54–55 . Nottingham . 1-899-46817-X.
25. News: Lord Livsey of Talgarth obituary . The Guardian . 19 September 2010 . Jonathan Fryer . Jonathan . Fryer . 18 February 2019.
26. Anon (2017)
27. Encyclopedia: Kenneth . Womack . Evans, Mal (1935–1976) . The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four . 1 . https://books.google.com/books?id=xWRyBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA265 . 30 June 2014 . ABC-CLIO . 978-0-313-39172-9 . 265.
28. News: Lord Davies of Coity . The Guardian . 13 March 2019 . 26 May 2019.
29. Book: Charles Roger Dod. Robert Phipps Dod. Dod's Parliamentary Companion. 2009. Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited. 978-0-905702-79-7. 830.
30. Book: International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Taylor & Francis Group. 2003. 9781857431797. 290.
31. Web site: Irish Derby 1969. Greyhound Derby. 31 December 2022.
32. Web site: Edwin Regan. Catholic-Hierarchy. 8 August 2023.
33. Book: The Law Times. January 1935. Office of The Law Times. 112.
34. Web site: Bill Frost - the first man to fly?. 20 October 2011. Phil Carradice. Phil Carradice. BBC. 26 May 2019.
35. Book: Robert Evans. Maggie Humphreys. Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. 1 January 1997. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-4411-3796-8. 286.
36. Book: Chris Larsen. Catholic Bishops of Great Britain: A Reference to Roman Catholic Bishops from 1850 to 2015. 1 April 2016. Sacristy Press. 978-1-910519-25-7. 300.
37. Book: The Law Times. January 1935. Office of The Law Times. 228.
38. Web site: Davies, John Gwynoro (1855-1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister. William Watkin Davies. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 17 November 2020.
39. News: T.E. Lawrence, To Arabia and back. BBC. 24 August 2013.
40. http://www.blackandambers.co.uk/Personnel.aspx?pr=103394 Bill Evans player profile
41. News: Journalist Gareth Jones' 1935 murder examined by BBC Four. 2012-07-05. BBC News. 2012-07-05.
42. Book: C. Cook. P. Jones. J. Sinclair. Sources in British Political History 1900–1951: Volume 4: A Guide to the Private Papers of Members of Parliament: L–Z. 20 April 1977. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 978-1-349-15762-4. 258.
43. s-EVAN-SAM-1859. Evans, Samuel (1859-1935), chairman of the Crown Mine, Johannesburg, educational pioneer. Edward Morgan Humphreys. 25 May 2024.
44. The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg11
45. Web site: Mills-Roberts, Robert Herbert (1862-1935), surgeon, and association football player. Robert Thomas Jenkins. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 15 August 2019.
46. Book: National Library of Wales. Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. 1942. Council of the National Library of Wales. 64.
47. Book: Amy Dillwyn. A Burglary: Or, Unconscious Influence. 2009. Honno. 978-1-906784-07-2. ix.