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 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Gwili
Events 6 April – Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry. 23 April – Morriston Orpheus Choir is founded by Ivor E. Sims. 17 June – The first detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar is achieved by a team including Edward George Bowen. October – At Nine Mile Point Colliery in Cwmfelinfach 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. 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.
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 English language Rhys Davies – Honey and Bread Walford Davies – The Pursuit of Music Geraint Goodwin – Call Back Yesterday Llewelyn Wyn Griffith – Spring of YouthNational Library of Wales Dr Llewelyn Wyn Griffith Papers]. Accessed 16 November 2014 Jack Jones – Black Parade Eiluned Lewis – December Apples (poems) Bertrand Russell – Religion and Science Howard Spring – Rachel Rosing
Welsh language Thomas Parry (ed) – Baledi'r Ddeunawfed Ganrif Ifor Williams (editor) – Canu Llywarch Hen
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 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. November – The BBC opens a studio in Bangor. date unknown – The BBC Welsh Orchestra, originally founded in 1928, is re-established as a 20-piece ensemble.
Sport Rugby 28 September – Swansea is the first British club to defeat a touring New Zealand side 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) 7 February – Cliff Jones, footballer 9 February – Paul Flynn, politician (died 2019) 27 March – Tom Parry Jones, inventor (died 2013) 29 March – Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone (died 2001) 8 April – Islwyn Jones, footballer 2 May – Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, politician (died 2010) 25 May – John Ffowcs Williams, engineerAnon (2017) 27 May – Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, born in Liverpool (shot by police 1976 in the United States) 30 May – Brayley Reynolds, footballer 24 June – Garfield Davies, trade unionist and politician (died 2019) 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 November – Ivor Davies, painter and installation artist 30 November – Sally Roberts Jones, poet and publisher 21 December – Geoff Lewis, jockey 31 December – Edwin Regan, Roman Catholic bishop
Deaths 1 February – John Aeron Thomas, industrialist and politician, 84 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) 14 March – Thomas Lloyd, Anglican Bishop of Maenan, 77 20 March – Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68 23 March – John Gwynoro Davies, minister and author, 80 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) 1 July – Bill Evans, rugby player, 78Bill Evans player profile BlackandAmbers.co.uk 19 July – Tom Jones, cricketer, 34 12 August – Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George, 29 (murdered in Manchukuo) 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)The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg11 27 November – Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer, 73 7 December – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist, 100 13 December – Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90
See also 1935 in Northern Ireland
References