1938_in_wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1938 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

• January 14 - The promenade at Aberystwyth is largely destroyed by 90mph winds.
• May 8 - William Ormsby-Gore succeeds his father as Baron Harlech.
• October - The first scheduled night flight in the UK begins operating between Cardiff and Weston-super-Mare.
• November - Completion of the Temple of Peace and Health in Cathays Park, Cardiff.

Arts and literature

• Ivor Novello appears in Henry V at Drury Lane Theatre, produced by Lewis Casson.
• Augustus John resigns from the Royal Academy.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Cardiff)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gwilym R. Jones
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Edgar H. Thomas
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Elena Puw Morgan

New books

• Richard Bennett - Methodistiaeth Caersws
• Tom Beynon - Gwrid ar Orwel ym Morgannwg
• Edward Tegla Davies - Stori Sam
• Idris Davies - Gwalia Deserta
• Ness Edwards - History of the South Wales Miners Federation
• Richard Hughes - In Hazard
• Edward Morgan Humphreys - Dirgelwch Gallt Y Ffrwd
• Jack Jones - Bidden to the Feast
• Edith Picton-Turbervill - Myself When Young
• William Plomer (ed.) - Kilvert\'s Diary, 1870-1879
• Ifor Williams (ed.) - Canu Aneirin

New drama

• Kitchener Davies - Susannah
• Charles Langbridge Morgan - The Flashing Stream
• Emlyn Williams - The Corn is Green

Music

• Tudor Davies plays the lead in the first English-language production of Verdi\'s Don Carlos, at Sadler\'s Wells.

Film

• Naunton Wayne appears as Caldicott in The Lady Vanishes.

Broadcasting

• 1 March - BBC Radio broadcasts the world première of Arwel Hughes latest composition, Tydi a Roddaist.

Sport

• Rugby Union
  • 5 February Scotland beat Wales 8–6 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh

Births

• 6 January - William Edwards, politician
• 20 April - Andrew Vicari, artist
• 14 May - Clive Rowlands, rugby player and coach
• 13 June - Gwynne Howell, bass
• 6 July - Tony Lewis, cricketer
• 6 August - Rees Davies, historian
• 9 October - Denzil Davies, politician
• 1 November - Delwyn Williams, politician
• 15 December - Michael Bogdanov, theatre director
• date unknown - Clive Thomas, football referee

Deaths

• April 16 - Sir William Price, industrialist
• May 8 - George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech
• October 22 - Sir John Purser Griffith, civil engineer
• November 4 - John Thomas Job, minister, hymn-writer and poet
• November 28 - Reginald Arthur Gibbs, shipowner
• December 29 - Eluned Morgan, writer
• date unknown - Gwynfil Evans (Barry Western), novelist

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