1935 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"
*Archbishop of Wales - Charles Alfred Howell Green
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Gwili

Events

*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.
*At Nine Mile Point Colliery in Cwmfelinfach [http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Gwent/NineMilePoint.htm] , 164 miners take part in a "stay-down" strike lasting 177 hours.

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"
*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 Fascist movement.

Broadcasting

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port

*Rugby - Swansea is the first British club side to defeat a touring New Zealand side.

Births

*7 February -Cliff Jones, footballer
*9 February - Paul Flynn, politician
*29 March - Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone
*2 May - Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, politician
*27 May - Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie
*24 June - Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity, politician
*23 October - Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno, politician
*30 November - Sally Roberts Jones, poet and publisher
*"date unknown"
**John Ffowcs Williams, engineer

Deaths

*3 March - Caradog Roberts, composer
*18 May - T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia"
*26 July - Albert Bethel, politician (born 1874)
*12 August - Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George
*21 August - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician
*10 October - Samuel Evans, educationist
*31 October - Noah Ablett, politician
**"date unknown" - Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist