1962 in Wales

1962 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1962 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Charles, Prince of Wales
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"
*Archbishop of Wales - Edwin Morris
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Trefin

Events

*4 August - Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, the Welsh Language Society, is founded.
*An outbreak of smallpox kills seventeen people in Wales.
*Opening of Llanwern steelworks near Newport.
*Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, Pontypridd, is the first Welsh medium secondary school in south Wales.

Arts and literature

*Rachel Roberts marries Rex Harrison.
*Welsh National Opera launches a training scheme for singers.
*Dick Francis publishes his first thriller, "Dead Cert".

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Llanelli)

*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Caradog Prichard
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - D. Emlyn Lewis
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - William Owen

New books

*Clifford Dyment - "The Railway Game"
*John Roberts Evans - "Ar Drothwy'r Nos"
*William Evans (Wil Ifan) - "Colofnau Wil Ifan"
*Michael Foot - "Aneurin Bevan", vol. 1
*Menna Gallie - "The Small Mine"
*Llewelyn Wyn Griffith - "The Adventures of Pryderi"
*"Oxford Book of Welsh Verse"
*Gwyn Thomas - "Chwerwder yn y Ffynhonnau"
*Norman Thomas - "Ask at the Unicorn"
*Raymond Williams - "Communications"

Music

*Grace Williams - "Four Medieval Welsh Poems for alto, harp and harpsichord"
*David Wynne - "Cymric Rhapsodies"

Film

*Richard Burton and Donald Houston appear in "The Longest Day".
*Peter Greenaway makes his first film: "Death of Sentiment".

Broadcasting

Welsh-language radio

*13 February - Saunders Lewis gives the Welsh Home Service’s Annual Lecture, entitled "Tynged yr Iaith (The Fate of the Language)".

Television

*14 September - The first transmitter, at Preseli, of the Teledu Cymru - Wales (West and North) Television service comes on air.

English-language television

*17 September - First edition of the Welsh national news programme BBC Wales Today.

port

*Football - John Charles returns to Leeds United from several years playing for Italian clubs.
*Golf - Brian Huggett wins the Dutch Open championship.
*BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - Ivor Allchurch

Births

*5 January - Geraint Williams, footballer
*11 January - Chris Bryant, politician
*27 June - Michael Ball, singer
*15 September - Kevin Allen, actor, comedian and film director
*15 October - Mark Ring, rugby player
*24 October - Jonathan Davies, rugby player
*12 December - John Jones, record producer
*"date unknown" - Iolo Williams, naturalist and broadcaster

Deaths

*23 March - Clement Davies, politician
*11 May - Eliot Crawshay-Williams, politician and author
*3 August - Edgar Phillips, poet and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod
*23 September - Margaret Jane Gordon (Lady Gordon), singer
*5 November (in London) - Percy Cudlipp, journalist
*30 November - Lewis Pugh Evans, Victoria Cross recipient
*15 December - Charles Rhys, 8th Baron Dynevor, politician
*21 December - Gary Hocking, motorcycle road racer (born 1937)


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