1943 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1943 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"
*Archbishop of Wales - Charles Alfred Howell Green
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Crwys

Events

*29 January - In the by-election for the University of Wales seat vacated by Ernest Evans, there are three notable candidates. W. J. Gruffydd, a former vice-president of Plaid Cymru who had subsequently joined the Liberal Party, triumphs over Plaid's Saunders Lewis. One of the other candidates is Alun Talfan Davies.
*23 October - David Lloyd George marries his secretary, Frances Stevenson.
*Sir Percy Thomas is elected President of R.I.B.A. for the second time - the second person every to achieve this.

Arts and literature

*The Welsh National Opera company is founded in Cardiff.

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)

*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys James
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Dafydd Owen
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - "withheld"

New books

*Idris Davies - "The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926"
*Rhys John Davies - "Pobl a Phethau"
*Sir Emrys Evans - "Ewthaffron: Criton" (translation from Plato)
*William Evans (Wil Ifan) - "A Quire of Rhymes"
*R. T. Jenkins - "Orinda"
*Alwyn D. Rees - "Adfeilion"

Music

*Arwel Hughes - "Antiomaros"
*W. S. Gwynn Williams - "Tosturi Duw (God's Mercy)"

Film

*Ray Milland stars in "Forever and a Day" and "The Crystal Ball".

Broadcasting

*Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from a bomber over Berlin for BBC Radio.

port

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Births

*13 January - Laura Sage, critic
*11 February - Win Griffiths MP, politician
*3 March - Aeronwy Thomas, literary figure
*1 April - Dafydd Wigley MP, politician
*16 April - Ruth Madoc, actress and singer
*26 April - Leon Pownall, actor and director
*27 April - Gwyn Prosser MP, politician
*2 August - Alun Michael MP, politician
*17 August - John Humphrys, TV and radio journalist
*24 August - Dafydd Iwan, musician and politician
*16 November - Val Lloyd AM, politician
*28 December - Joan Ruddock MP, politician
*"date unknown"
**John Beard, artist
**Elinor Bennett, harpist
**Karl Francis, filmmaker
**Sir Terry Matthews, entrepreneur

Deaths

*31 January - Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, physician, 85
*1 March - Clara Novello Davies, singer, 71
*23 March - Commander John Wallace Linton, VC, 37
*28 March - Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85
*12 April - Arthur Lloyd James, phonetician
*17 April - Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), author, 90
*15 October - Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, lawyer, 72
*10 December - Ivor Morgan, Welsh international rugby union player, 59
*27 December - Arthur O'Bree, Glamorgan cricketer, 57