1974 in Wales explained
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1974 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
- Kyffin Williams is elected to the Royal Academy.
- Andrew Vicari is appointed official painter to the Saudi royal family.
- The Cory Brass Band is the first Welsh band to win the British National Championship.
- The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra achieves full symphony status.
- Foundation of the Welsh Jazz Society.
- Journalist Hugh Cudlipp is created Baron Cudlipp of Aldingbourne.
- Glyn Daniel becomes Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge.
Awards
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- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Moses Glyn Jones
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - William George
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Dafydd Ifans
English language
Welsh language
Music
Film
- Richard Burton stars in The Klansman.
Welsh-language films
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
English-language television
- Richard Burton is banned from BBC productions after complaints about his derogatory comments about Winston Churchill and others in power during World War II.
- Windsor Davies makes his first appearance as Sergeant Major Williams in It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
Sport
Births
- 5 January – Iwan Thomas, athlete[16]
- 30 January – Christian Bale, actor
- 15 March (in Zambia) – Vaughan Gething, politician, First Minister
- 3 May – Barry Jones, boxer
- 11 May – Darren Ward, footballer
- 29 May – Jenny Willott, politician[17]
- 3 June – Kelly Jones, rock singer-songwriter-guitarist
- 25 June – David Park, golfer
- 11 August – Dafydd Trystan Davies, chair of Plaid Cymru
- 1 September – Tony Bird, footballer
- 3 September – Rob Page, footballer
- 5 September – Becky Morgan, golfer
- 13 September – Andy Gorman, footballer
- 20 September (in Suva, Fiji) – Owen Sheers, poet and actor
- 17 October – Beverley Jones, athlete
- 18 October – Robbie Savage, footballer[18]
- 24 October – David Evans, squash player
- 8 November – Matthew Rhys, actor
- 12 November – Jonathan Morgan, politician
- date unknown – Bedwyr Williams, installation and performance artist
Deaths
- 9 January – Dora Herbert Jones, singer and administrator, 83[19]
- 11 January – Joe Jones, dual-code rugby player, 57[20]
- 21 January – Sandy Griffiths, football referee, 65
- 11 February – D. Jacob Davies, Unitarian minister, broadcaster, writer and journalist, 57[21]
- 12 February – Alec Harris, spiritualist medium, 76
- 5 April – Cecil Spiller, cricketer, 73
- 14 April – Sir Archibald Lush, schools inspector, 74[23]
- 13 May – Islwyn Evans, Wales international rugby player, 75[24]
- 11 June – William Jones, dean of Brecon, 76[25]
- 29 August (in Oxford) – Harold Arthur Harris, academic, 71[26]
- 9 September – Neil McBride, MP for Swansea East, 64[27]
- 28 October (in Harrow) – David Jones, poet and artist, 78[28]
- November – Bessie Jones singer, 87
- 14 November - Gomer Hughes, rugby player, 64
- 24 November - Ivor Jones, footballer, 75
- 29 December – William Charles Fuller, Victoria Cross recipient, 80[29]
See also
Notes and References
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- Web site: Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — “G. O.”: His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price . David Wilbourne. 8 June 2018. Church Times. 6 May 2022.
- Book: Meic Stephens. The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. registration. April 1986. Oxford University Press. 523.
- Book: Charles Fort. The Info Journal. 1972. International Fortean Organization. 6.
- Book: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Commons official report. 2005. H.M. Stationery Office. 775.
- Book: Alan O'Day. Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800. 11 June 2014. Routledge. 978-1-317-89711-8. 296.
- Book: Great Britain. Charles Arnold-Baker. The Local Government Act 1972. 1973. Butterworths. 225.
- Book: Phyllis Chesler. Emily Jane Goodman. Women, money & power. 1976. Bantam Books. 978-0-553-02978-9. 35.
- Book: Claudia Piras. Bernhard Roetzel. British Tradition and Interior Design: Town and Country Living in the British Isles. 31 December 2000. Cologne. 978-3-8290-4851-4. 157.
- Book: John T. Koch. Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. 2006. ABC-CLIO. 978-1-85109-440-0. 673.
- Book: Charles William Sullivan. The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays. 1996. Psychology Press. 978-0-8153-1482-0. 385.
- Book: Simon Brooks. Hanes Cymry: Lleiafrifoedd Ethnig ar Gwareiddiad Cymraeg. University of Wales Press. 2021. Bibliography.
- Book: Dave Marsh. John Swenson. The new Rolling stone record guide. registration. 12 October 1983. Random House/Rolling Stone Press. 978-0-394-72107-1. 169.
- Web site: Profile: Ray Reardon . 2 March 2010 . . 16 May 2019.
- Web site: BBC Wales Sport Personality winners . BBC Sport . 29 July 2021.
- Web site: Iwan Thomas Profile. IAAF. 1 October 2019.
- Book: Dod's Parliamentary Companion. 2010. Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited. 978-0-905702-89-6. 363.
- Book: Janine Self. Robbie Savage. Savage! The Robbie Savage Autobiography. Mainstream Publishing. 2011. 9781907195631. 2.
- s11-JONE-HER-1890. Jones, Dora Herbert (1890-1974), singer and administrator. Rhidian Griffiths. 2016. 7 May 2022.
- Web site: Joseph Jones . Wigan Today . 20 April 2016 . 2 July 2017.
- Book: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated. Britannica Book of the Year. registration. 1 January 1975. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 978-0-85229-303-4. 597.
- Book: Town and Country Planning. 1974. The Association.
- Book: Who was who. 1971. A. & C. Black.
- http://www.swansearfc.co.uk/history_browser_view.php?image_id=481 Swansea RFC player profiles
- [Who's Who|''Who Was Who 1897–2007'']
- Book: Harold Arthur Harris. Greek Athletics and the Jews. University of Wales Press. Anthony James Brothers. I. M. Barton. 1976. 9780708306352. 3.
- Web site: McBride, Neil (1910-1974), Labour politician. John Graham Jones. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 24 December 2019.
- Web site: David Jones dies; Poet and Painter. 30 October 1974. New York Times. 7 May 2022.
- Book: David Harvey. Monuments to courage: Victoria Cross headstones and memorials. 1999. Kevin and Kay Patience.