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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 footballer
16 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, 52
25 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, 76
14 June –
George Thomas , Wales international rugby union player, 76/77
30 June –
Hugh Evans , author and publisher, 79
[35]
19 July –
Christopher Williams , painter, 61
28 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
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ISBN
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The Human Tradition in Modern Britain . Rowman & Littlefield. p. 92.
ISBN
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"Jenkins, John (Gwili) (1872-1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 2 November 2021 .
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"Gresford Colliery Explosion" . The Colliery Guardian . 16 November 1934. p. 915, col. 1. Retrieved 3 October 2018 – via Durham Mining Museum.
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"Swansea New Guildhall" . British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 29 August 2019 .
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ISBN
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ISBN
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^
"Winners of the Chair" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
^
"Winners of the Crown" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
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ISBN
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ISBN
978-1-78316-324-3 .
^ Guy Hodgson (27 May 1994).
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"Gren Jones" . British Cartoon Archive . University of Kent. Retrieved 31 January 2019 .
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^ Oliver Brown (28 August 2013).
"Ryder Cup hero and greens guru Dave Thomas dies at 79" . The Telegraph . Retrieved 22 September 2020 .
^ Alan Duncan and Robert Taylor (1 June 2009).
"Sir Clive Granger" . The Guardian . Retrieved 15 August 2019 .
^
"Mr David Marquand" . Hansard . Retrieved 26 May 2019 .
^ Geraint Lewis (31 July 1992).
"Obituary: Professor William Mathias" . The Independent .
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 30 January 2019 .
^ Harriet Marsden (25 October 2017).
"Betty Campbell: Wales's first black headteacher took civil rights history into classrooms" . The Independent .
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 30 January 2019 .
^ Raimond Gaita (21 August 2006).
"Professor Dewi Phillips" . The Guardian . Retrieved 26 May 2019 .
^ Mary Lloyd Jones (2001).
The Colour of Saying: The Work of Mary Lloyd Jones . Gomer Press with Aberystwyth Arts Centre. p. 14.
ISBN
978-1-85902-869-8 .
^ Harold Mostyn Watkins.
"EDWARDS, DOROTHY (1903-1934), novelist" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 October 2018 .
^ John Lias Cecil Cecil-Williams.
"Bowen, Ivor (1862-1934), K.C., county court judge" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019 .
^
University of Edinburgh Journal . University of Edinburgh, Graduates' Association. 1934. p. 303.
^
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"Evans, Hugh (1854-1934), author and publisher" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019 .
^ Geological Society of America (1943).
Proceedings . Geological Society of America. p. 136.
^ John William Jones.
"Edwards, John Kelt (1875-1934), artist" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 February 2020 .
^ Thomas Jones.
"Evans, Evan Vincent (1851-1934), eisteddfodwr, and secretary of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 August 2019 .
See also