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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1946 to
Wales and
its people.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
In Welsh
In English
Music
Film
Broadcasting
- June – The BBC's regional director for Wales tells Welsh MPs that there is "not enough talent... to sustain a full continuous programme".
[7]
Sport
Births
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10 January –
Terry Cobner, rugby player
[8]
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15 January –
Roger Davis, cricketer
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31 January –
Bobby Windsor, rugby player
[9]
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20 February –
Mike Roberts, Wales and British Lion rugby player
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21 March –
Timothy Dalton, actor
[10]
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2 April –
Dai Llewellyn, socialite (died
2009)
[11]
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5 April –
Russell Davies, journalist and broadcaster
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13 April –
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
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19 May –
Androw Bennett, writer
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6 June –
Hywel Francis, politician and historian (died
2021)
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14 June –
Glyn Berry, diplomat
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6 August –
Ron Davies, politician
[12]
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12 August –
Andrew McNeillie, poet and literary editor
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3 October –
Richie Morgan, professional footballer and manager
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18 October –
Dafydd Elis-Thomas, politician
[13]
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30 October –
Chris Slade, rock drummer
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26 November –
Brian Hibbard, actor and singer (died 2012)
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27 November –
Kim Howells, politician
[14]
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6 December –
Martin Moore-Bick, judge
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9 December –
Mervyn Davies, rugby player (died
2012)
[15]
- date unknown –
Tony Curtis, poet
Deaths
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8 January –
Dion Fortune, writer, 55
[16]
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23 January –
William Evans, Wales dual code international rugby player, 62
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25 April (in
London) –
Arthur Jenkins, MP for Pontypool, 64
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14 March –
Reg Thomas, athlete, 39 (air crash)
[17]
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16 April –
Jack Jenkins, footballer, 54
[18]
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25 April –
Arthur Jenkins, politician, 64
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25 May –
Ernest Rhys ("Mr Everyman"), writer, 86
[19]
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1 June –
Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, politician, 80
[20]
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10 June –
Humphrey Jones, footballer, 83
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18 June –
Thomas Llewellyn Jones, businessman and politician in Australia, 74
[21]
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4 July –
Taffy O'Callaghan, footballer, 39
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15 July –
William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician, 75
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20 July –
Richard Thomas Evans, politician, 55/56
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8 August –
Miriam Kate Williams ("Vulcana"), strongwoman, 72
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12 August –
Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player, 82
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25 August –
Tudor Edwards, thoracic surgeon, 56
[22]
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26 August –
Ruth Herbert Lewis, social reformer and collector of Welsh folk songs, 74
[23]
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15 October –
David Percy Davies, newspaper editor,
[24]
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4 November –
Bill Morris, Wales international rugby player, 77
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5 November –
Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, author and patron of the arts in Wales, 66
[25]
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24 November –
Sydney Nicholls, Wales rugby international player, 78
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6 December –
Charles Stanton
MP, politician
[26]
- date unknown
See also
References
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^
Rehabilitation in Great Britain. British Information Services, Reference Division. 1947. p. 15.
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^ National Library of Wales (1955).
Annual Report – Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors. The Library.
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^ George Watson (2 July 1971).
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. CUP Archive. pp. 303–. GGKEY:64CF45KC7C0.
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^ J. C. Bittenbender.
Gale Researcher Guide for: Dylan Thomas: The Natural and the Supernatural. Gale, Cengage Learning. p. 8.
ISBN
978-1-5358-5139-8.
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^ Gwyn Thomas (23 December 2005).
The Dark Philosophers. Summersdale Publishers Limited. p. 3.
ISBN
978-1-84839-717-0.
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^ K. Donnelly (16 August 2007).
British Film Music and Film Musicals. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 107.
ISBN
978-0-230-59774-7.
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^ Asa Briggs (1995).
The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume IV: Sound and Vision. OUP Oxford. p. 92.
ISBN
978-0-19-212967-3.
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^ Peter Jackson (1998).
Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends. Mainstream. p. 210.
ISBN
978-1-84018-026-8.
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^ Chris Schoeman (2007).
Legends of the Ball: Rugby's Greatest Players Chosen by Willie John McBride, Frik Du Preez, David Compese. CJS Books. p. 132.
ISBN
978-0-620-36962-6.
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^ Peter M. Gareffa; Ann Evory (1988).
Newsmakers. Gale Research.
ISBN
9780810322035.
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^ Burgess, Kaya (14 January 2009).
"Sir Dai Llewellyn dies aged 62".
The Times. London. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
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^ Charles Roger Dod; Robert Phipps Dod (2000).
Dod's Parliamentary Companion. Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited. p. 518.
ISBN
9780905702285.
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^ Charles Roger Dod; Vacher Dod Publishing, Limited; Robert Phipps Dod (2005).
Dod's Parliamentary Companion. Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited. p. 567.
ISBN
9780905702513.
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^ Valerie Passmore (2005).
Dod's Parliamentary Companion: Guide to the General Election, 2005. Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited. p. 195.
ISBN
978-0-905702-57-5.
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^ Paul Rees (16 March 2012).
"Mervyn Davies obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
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^ Knight, Gareth (2000). Dion Fortune and the Inner Light. Loughborough: Thoth Publications. p. 293.
ISBN
978-1-870450-45-4.
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^
"Squadron Leader Reginald Heber Thomas". CWGC. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
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^ Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. pp. 125–126.
ISBN
978-0-9521337-1-1.
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^ Terry Seymour (2011).
A Printing History of Everyman's Library 1906-1982. AuthorHouse. p. 263.
ISBN
978-1-4678-7014-6.
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^ Michael Stenton; Stephen Lees (1981).
Who's who of British members of parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons, based on annual volumes of Dod's 'parliamentary companion' and other sources. Harvester Press.
ISBN
9780855273255.
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^
"Family Notices".
The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 19 June 1946. p. 10. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
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^ Wakeley, C. P. G. (7 September 1946).
"A. Tudor Edwards, M.D. M. Ch. F.R.C.S." Br Med J. 2 (4470): 346–.
doi:
10.1136/bmj.2.4470.346-c.
ISSN
0007-1447.
PMC
2054255.
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^ Evan David Jones.
"Lewis, Lady Ruth (1871-1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
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^
"DAVIES, David Percy".
Who Was Who.
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^ Charles Kidd; Christine Shaw (24 June 2008).
Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008. Debrett's. p. 344.
ISBN
978-1-870520-80-5.
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^ Huw Morris-Jones.
"Stanton, Charles Butt (1873-1946), M.P. for the Merthyr and Aberdare constituency, 1915-1922".
Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
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^ The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. 2008. p. 768.
ISBN
9780708319536.