1936 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; ;
Decades:	1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1936 in The United Kingdom Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1936 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[]

Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor^[1]
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
- Gwili (outgoing)
- J.J. (incoming)

Events[]

20 January - Edward, Prince of Wales, accedes to the throne as Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom, following the death of his father King George V of the United Kingdom.^[2]
March - Jim Griffiths, later the first Secretary of State for Wales, is elected member for Llanelli^[3] following the death in office of the sitting MP.
May - Colonial Secretary Jimmy Thomas is forced to resign from politics after a scandal involving Stock Exchange dealings.
8 September - In an incident known as Llosgi'r ysgol fomio (The burning of the bombing school), or, Tân yn Llŷn (Fire in Llŷn), a sabotage attack on Penyberth aerodrome is carried out by Lewis Valentine, D. J. Williams and Saunders Lewis.^[4]
19 November - Dowlais Ironworks ceases steel production at its original Dowlais works. On a visit to the depressed areas of the South Wales Valleys King Edward VIII comments that "These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again."^[5] The remark is much misquoted.
October - Saunders Lewis courts further controversy by appearing to praise Adolf Hitler.^[6]
unknown dates
- Six men and one woman are jailed after an anti-Fascist demonstration at Tonypandy.
- Of 118 men from the South Wales coalfield who enlist in the International Brigade, 34 are killed.
- Treforest Trading Estate opens.

Arts and literature[]

Awards[]

National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Fishguard)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair -
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown -

New books[]

English language[]

- Christ In The Valley of Unemployment
Margiad Evans - Creed
Geraint Goodwin - The Heyday in the Blood
W. F. Grimes - The Megalithic Monuments of Wales
Bertrand Russell - Which Way to Peace?
Dylan Thomas - Twenty-five Poems,^[7] including "And death shall have no dominion"
Ethel Lina White - The Wheel Spins (The Lady Vanishes)

Welsh language[]

Ambrose Bebb - Crwydro'r Cyfandir
I. D. Hooson - Cerddi a Baledi
Kate Roberts (author) - Traed mewn cyffion^[8]

New drama[]

Saunders Lewis - Buchedd Garmon

Music[]

John Glyn Davies - Cerddi Portinllaen
Arwel Hughes - Fantasia for strings
Ivor Novello - Careless Rapture

Film[]

Visit of David Lloyd George to Germany (shot by David Lloyd George's private secretary)

Broadcasting[]

Sport[]

Rugby Union
- 14 March - Wales beats Ireland 3–0 at Cardiff Arms Park

Births[]

9 January - Mike Davies, tennis player and sports administrator (died 2015 in the United States)
7 February - Keith Rowlands, rugby union player and administrator (died 2006)^[9]
14 March - John Meirion Morris, sculptor (died 2020)^[10]
16 March - Vic Rouse, footballer
10 April - Ricky Valance, born David Spencer, pop singer (died 2020)^[11]
12 May - Phil Edwards, boxer^[12]
23 May - Jennifer Daniel, actress
27 June - Clive Thomas, football referee
6 July - Redvers Sangoe, light-heavyweight boxer (died 1964)
30 July - Haydn Morgan, Welsh international rugby union player
2 September - Gwyn Thomas, poet and academic (died 2016)^[13]
20 September - Andrew Davies, screenwriter^[14]
25 September - Michael Davies, Catholic writer (died 2004)
15 October - Timothy Stamps, Minister of Health in Zimbabwe (died 2017 in Zimbabwe)^[15]
7 November - Dame Gwyneth Jones, opera singer^[16]
18 November - Brian Huggett, golfer^[17]

Deaths[]

9 January
- David Phillips Jones, Wales international rugby player, 54
- "Buller" Williams, Wales international rugby player
20 January - George V (Prince of Wales, 1901–1910), 70
7 February - John Henry Williams, sitting MP for Llanelli, 66 (pneumonia)^[18]
23 February - Harry Jones, Welsh-born prospector and politician in British Columbia, 95
20 March - William Napier Bruce, lawyer, 78^[19]
5 May - Percy Bennett, Wales international rugby player, 66
16 May - John Jenkins (Gwili), poet and archdruid, 63^[20]
13 June - William Elsey, Wales international rugby player, 65
3 August - John Alf Brown, Wales international rugby player, 54
2 September - William Rees, priest and writer, 77
28 October - George Barker, politician, 78
29 October - Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player, 79
11 November - Sir Edward German, English composer of Welsh descent, 71^[21]
15 December - Reese J. Llewellyn, Welsh-American businessman, 64^[22]

References[]

^ C. J. Litzenberger; Eileen Groth Lyon (2006). The Human Tradition in Modern Britain. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-7425-3735-4.
^ Ziegler, Philip (1991). King Edward VIII: The official biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-57730-2. Page 245.
^ Cameron Hazlehurst; Sally Whitehead; Christine Woodland (1996). A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964. Cambridge University Press. pp. 163. ISBN 978-0-521-58743-3.
^ Llafur. Llafur. 2000. p. 60.
^ Joan Abse (2000). Letters from Wales. Seren. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-85411-270-5.
^ Richard Wyn Jones (15 May 2014). The Fascist Party in Wales?: Plaid Cymru, Welsh Nationalism and the Accusation of Fascism. University of Wales Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-78316-156-0.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Roberts, Kate (1991). The world of Kate Roberts : selected stories, 1925-1981. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 6. ISBN 9780877227946.
^ "Keith Alun Rowlands 1936 - 2006". Cardiff Rugby. 20 November 2006. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
^ "CV for John Meirion Morris". John Meirion Morris. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
^ Spencer Leigh (16 June 2020). "Ricky Valance obituary | Pop and rock | The Guardian". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
^ Jones, Wynford (2007). Benny's Boys: The Stable of Benny Jacobs. St Helens, Merseyside: Colourplan Design & Print. pp. 48–50. ISBN 978-0-9551082-1-1.
^ "Wales' former national poet Gwyn Thomas dies". bbc.co.uk. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
^ Screen International Film and TV Year Book. Screen International, King Publications Limited. 1992. p. 93.
^ "Timothy Stamps". The Times. 21 December 2017. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
^ Ewen, David (1978). Musicians since 1900: performers in concert and opera. New York: H.W. Wilson Company. p. 374. ISBN 9780824205652.
^ Alliss, Peter (1983). The Who's Who of Golf. Orbis Publishing. p. 250. ISBN 0-85613-520-8.
^ "Obituaries". British Medical Journal. 1 (3920): 393. 22 February 1936. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3920.393-b. S2CID 220035532.
^ Rees, Sir James Frederick. "BRUCE , WILLIAM NAPIER". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jenkins, John (Gwili) (1872-1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
^ "Deaths", The Times, 4 January 1937, p. 19
^ "L. A. Industrialist Dies in New York". Oakland Tribune. December 16, 1936. p. 7. Retrieved May 15, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.

[1] C. J. Litzenberger; Eileen Groth Lyon (2006). The Human Tradition in Modern Britain. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-7425-3735-4.

[2] Ziegler, Philip (1991). King Edward VIII: The official biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-57730-2. Page 245.

[3] Cameron Hazlehurst; Sally Whitehead; Christine Woodland (1996). A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964. Cambridge University Press. pp. 163. ISBN 978-0-521-58743-3.

[4] Llafur. Llafur. 2000. p. 60.

[5] Joan Abse (2000). Letters from Wales. Seren. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-85411-270-5.

[6] Richard Wyn Jones (15 May 2014). The Fascist Party in Wales?: Plaid Cymru, Welsh Nationalism and the Accusation of Fascism. University of Wales Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-78316-156-0.

[7] Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

[8] Roberts, Kate (1991). The world of Kate Roberts : selected stories, 1925-1981. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 6. ISBN 9780877227946.

[9] "Keith Alun Rowlands 1936 - 2006". Cardiff Rugby. 20 November 2006. Retrieved 26 November 2021.

[10] "CV for John Meirion Morris". John Meirion Morris. Retrieved 26 November 2021.

[11] Spencer Leigh (16 June 2020). "Ricky Valance obituary | Pop and rock | The Guardian". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 December 2021.

[12] Jones, Wynford (2007). Benny's Boys: The Stable of Benny Jacobs. St Helens, Merseyside: Colourplan Design & Print. pp. 48–50. ISBN 978-0-9551082-1-1.

[13] "Wales' former national poet Gwyn Thomas dies". bbc.co.uk. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.

[14] Screen International Film and TV Year Book. Screen International, King Publications Limited. 1992. p. 93.

[15] "Timothy Stamps". The Times. 21 December 2017. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 10 September 2019.

[16] Ewen, David (1978). Musicians since 1900: performers in concert and opera. New York: H.W. Wilson Company. p. 374. ISBN 9780824205652.

[17] Alliss, Peter (1983). The Who's Who of Golf. Orbis Publishing. p. 250. ISBN 0-85613-520-8.

[18] "Obituaries". British Medical Journal. 1 (3920): 393. 22 February 1936. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3920.393-b. S2CID 220035532.

[19] Rees, Sir James Frederick. "BRUCE , WILLIAM NAPIER". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 April 2015.

[20] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jenkins, John (Gwili) (1872-1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

[21] "Deaths", The Times, 4 January 1937, p. 19

[22] "L. A. Industrialist Dies in New York". Oakland Tribune. December 16, 1936. p. 7. Retrieved May 15, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.

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1936 in Wales

Contents

Incumbents[]

Events[]

Arts and literature[]

Awards[]

New books[]

English language[]

Welsh language[]

New drama[]

Music[]

Film[]

Broadcasting[]

Sport[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

See also[]

References[]