1935 in Wales

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

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - The Prince Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Gwili

Events

• 23 April - Morriston Orpheus Choir is founded by Ivor E. Sims.
• Edward George Bowen.
• October - At Nine Mile Point Colliery in Cwmfelinfach [2], 164 miners take part in a "stay-down" strike action lasting 177 hours.
• 14 November - In the UK general election:
  • Megan Lloyd George reverts from Independent Liberal to Liberal MP after a 4-year estrangement from the party leadership.
  • Newly elected MPs include Arthur Jenkins at Pontypool.
• Ten people are jailed at Blaina and a further 32 at Merthyr Tydfil during a period of industrial unrest in South Wales.
• Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli becomes the first in Europe to sell beer in cans.
• Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones is knighted and becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry.

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
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Gwilym R. Jones

New books

• Rhys Davies - Honey and Bread
• Walford Davies - The Pursuit of Music
• Geraint Goodwin - Call Back Yesterday
• Llewelyn Wyn Griffith - Spring of Youth^[1]
• Jack Jones - Black Parade
• Bertrand Russell - Religion and Science
• Howard Spring - Rachel Rosing

New drama

• James Kitchener Davies - Cwm Glo
• 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
• Pink Shirts, an amateur film made by the Marquess of Anglesey and his family and written by Peter Fleming, satirizing the British Fascists movement.

Broadcasting

Sport

• Rugby - Swansea is the first British club to defeat a touring New Zealand side and become the first team, club or international, to beat all three major touring Southern Hemisphere countries.

Births

• 7 February - Cliff Jones, footballer
• 9 February - Paul Flynn, politician
• 27 March - Tom Parry Jones, inventor (died 2013)
• 29 March - Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone (died 2001)
• 2 May - Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, politician
• 27 May - Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie (died 1976)
• 30 May - Brayley Reynolds, footballer
• 24 June - Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity, politician
• 2000
• 5 August - Kingsley Jones, rugby player (died 2003)
• 23 October - Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno, politician
• 30 November - Sally Roberts Jones, poet and publisher
• 21 December - Geoff Lewis, jockey
• 31 December - Edwin Regan, Roman Catholic bishop
• date unknown
  • Vincent Kane, broadcaster
  • John Ffowcs Williams, engineer

Deaths

• 15 February - Tom Reason, cricketer, 44
• March - William Frost, inventor, 86
• 3 March - Caradog Roberts, composer, 46
• 13 March - Francis Vaughan, Roman Catholic bishop, 57 (post-operative complications)
• 20 March - Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68
• 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)^[2]
• 26 July - Albert Bethel, politician, 61
• [3]
• 21 August - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician, 94
• 20 September - Teddy Peers, footballer, 48
• 10 October - Samuel Evans, educationist
• 31 October - Noah Ablett, politician, 52 (alcohol-related)^[4]
• 13 December - Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90

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