1937_in_wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1937 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 - J.J.

Events

• 27 August - Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams are released from Wormwood Scrubs to the plaudits of nationalist supporters, having served a nine-month sentence for the arson attack on the Penrhos "bombing school".
• The South Wales Regional Council of Labour is formed.
• The Urdd launches the first Welsh books campaign.

Arts and literature

• James Gomer Berry becomes chairman of Kemsley Newspapers Ltd.
• The Prose Medal is awarded for the first time at the National Eisteddfod.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Machynlleth)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - T. Rowland Hughes
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - J. M. Edwards
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - John Owen Jones

New books

• Ambrose Bebb - Y Ddeddf Uno 1536
• David Jones - In Parenthesis
• T. J. Morgan - Dal Llygoden Ac Ysgrifau Eraill
• John Cowper Powys - Morwyn: or The Vengeance of God
• Ernest Rhys - Song of the Sun

Music

Film

• Ray Milland appears in five new films, including Ebb Tide.

Broadcasting

Sport

• Billiards - Horace Coles wins the World Amateur Billiards Championship.
• Boxing
  • 15 March - Tommy Farr wins the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles.
  • 30 August - Farr loses on points to Joe Louis.

Births

• 8 January - Shirley Bassey, singer
• 22 January - Ryan Davies, entertainer
• 21 March - Ann Clwyd, politician
• 8 June - Gillian Clarke, poet
• 7 September - Clive Everton, snooker commentator
• 30 September - Gary Hocking, motorcycle road racer
• 5 October - Iwan Edwards, choral conductor (in Canada)
• 31 December - Sir Anthony Hopkins, actor
• date unknown - Trebor Edwards, singer

Deaths

• 28 April - Frederick Edward Guest, politician
• 22 July - Alfred George Edwards, former Archbishop of Wales

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