1934 in Wales
List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1934 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
Drama
Music
Film
Broadcasting
A new radio station is established at Bangor.[ 12]
Sport
Births
11 February – Mary Quant , fashion designer[ 13] 25 February (in London ) – Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell , politician (died 2018)[ 14] 28 March – Graham Vearncombe , footballer (died 1993 )30 March – Dic Jones , bard and archdruid (died 2009 )[ 15] 18 April – Brynmor John , politician (died 1988 )[ 16] 16 May – Kenneth O. Morgan , historian and academic[ 17] 10 May – Cliff Wilson , snooker player (died 1994 )[ 18] 13 June – Gren (Grenfell Jones), cartoonist (died 2007)[ 19] 5 July – Philip Madoc , actor (died 2012)[ 20] 13 July – Dai Ward , footballer (died 1996 )6 August – Billy Boston , rugby league footballer16 August – Dave Thomas , golfer and architect (died 2013 )[ 21] 4 September – Clive Granger , econometrician (died 2009 )[ 22] 19 August – Ron Jones , athlete (died 2021 )20 September – David Marquand , academic and MP[ 23] 1 November – William Mathias , composer (died 1992)[ 24] 6 November – Betty Campbell , née Johnson, Wales's first black head teacher (died 2017 )[ 25] 24 November – Dewi Zephaniah Phillips , philosopher (died 2006 )[ 26] date unknown – Mary Lloyd Jones , painter and printmaker[ 27]
Deaths
6 January – Dorothy Edwards , novelist, 30 (suicide)[ 28] 8 January – Ivor Bowen , judge, 71[ 29] 23 January – Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway , owner of Bodnant , 83[ 30] 2 February – Edward Bevan , Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, 72[ 31] 4 February – Harry Wetter , Welsh international rugby union player, 5225 February – Daniel Protheroe , composer and conductor, 67[ 32] 28 February – David Davies , textile merchant, 81[ 33] 3 May – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar , 68[ 34] 24 May – William Nathaniel Jones , politician, 7614 June – George Thomas , Wales international rugby union player, 76/7730 June – Hugh Evans , author and publisher, 79[ 35] 19 July – Christopher Williams , painter, 6128 August – Edgeworth David , geologist and explorer, 76[ 36] 11 October – John Kelt Edwards , cartoonist, 59[ 37] 13 November – Sir Evan Vincent Evans , journalist, 81[ 38] 4 December – Henry Davies , cricketer, 69
References
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