# 1935 in Wales

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 Youth
* 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, engineer
* 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, 78
* 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)
* 27 November – Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer, 73
* 7 December – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist, 100
* 13 December – Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90