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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1949 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in
Dolgellau )
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Film
Broadcasting
January -
Glyn Griffiths writes: "It would be advisable now for Wales to weigh in with its campaign of aggravation and persuasion to get a Welsh Radio Corporation."
[24]
Sport
Births
1 January -
Sue Jones-Davies , actress, singer and local politician
7 February -
Martin Daunton , historian and academic
2 March -
J. P. R. Williams , rugby player
[26] (died
2024 )
5 March -
Mike Gwilym , actor
9 March -
Neil Hamilton , politician
22 March -
John Toshack , footballer and football manager
[27]
14 April -
Dennis Bryon , rock drummer
22 May
5 June -
Ken Follett , novelist
[30]
11 June -
Tom Pryce , racing driver (killed in racing accident
1977 )
[31]
14 June -
Alan Evans , darts player (died
1999 )
23 June -
Hilary Boyd , novelist
16 July -
Angharad Rees , actress (died
2012 )
[32]
15 August -
Richard Deacon , sculptor and academic
25 August (in
Oxford ) -
Martin Amis , novelist
[33]
24 October -
Nick Ainger , politician
29 October -
Alun Ffred Jones
AM , politician
18 November -
William Graham
AM , politician
15 December (in
Epsom ) -
Jane Hutt
AM , politician
[34]
date unknown
Deaths
20 January -
Artie Moore , wireless operator (born 1887)
[35]
21 January
7 March -
T. Gwynn Jones ("Tir-na-Nog"), poet and journalist, 77
20 April -
Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st Baronet , civil engineer and politician, 90
[37]
21 April - Sir
Alfred Thomas Davies , civil servant, 88
27 April -
Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar , poet and occulist, 55
1 May -
Horace Lyne , Wales international rugby player and WRU president, 88
[38]
3 May -
David John Tawe Jones , composer, 64
8 May -
Abel J. Jones , teacher, writer and public servant
6 June -
Walter E. Rees , Secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union, 86
3 July -
William McCutcheon , Wales international rugby player, 78/79
[39]
23 July -
John Bodvan Anwyl (Bodfan), lexicographer, 74
[40]
10 August -
William Jones Williams , public servant, 86
26 August -
Edgar Chappell , sociologist, 70
[41]
1 September - Dr
Teddy Morgan , Welsh international rugby player, 69
24 October -
T. Rowland Hughes , author, 46
9 November -
William Dowell , Wales dual code rugby international, 64
16 December -
George Maitland Lloyd Davies , pacifist politician, 59
[42]
See also
References
^
a
b Mary Gwendoline Ellis.
"Morgan, John (1886-1957), Archbishop of Wales" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2020 .
^ National Library of Wales (1947).
Annual Report - National Library of Wales . p. 16.
^ Corfe, Robert (2009). Land of the Olympians: papers from the enlightened far north . Bury St. Edmunds: Arena. p. 95.
ISBN
9781906791179 .
^ Great Britain. Council for Wales and Monmouthshire (1950).
A Memorandum by the Council on Its Activities . H.M. Stationery Office.
^ Jonny Muir (15 January 2014).
The UK's County Tops: Reaching the top of 91 historic counties . Cicerone Press. p. 99.
ISBN
978-1-84965-963-5 .
^ Grady, Monica M (2000). Catalogue of Meteorites Reference Book with CD-ROM . Cambridge University Press. p. 95.
ISBN
9780521663038 .
^
"Cwmbran Regeneration" . Torfaen County Borough Council. Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
^
"Key - Gwyn Nicholls Memorial Gates 1949" . Cardiff Rugby Museum . Retrieved 27 May 2019 .
^ Tony Russell (15 March 2015).
The Finest Gardens in Wales . Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 27.
ISBN
978-1-4456-4137-9 .
^ Lawrence Goldman (7 March 2013).
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 . OUP Oxford. p. 355.
ISBN
978-0-19-967154-0 .
^
"Winners of the Chair" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^
"Winners of the Crown" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^
"Winners of the Prose Medal" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
^ Dannie Abse (1949).
After Every Green Thing . Hutchinson.
^ John Graham Jones.
"Mardy-Jones, Thomas Isaac (1879-1970), economist and politician" . Welsh Biography Online .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 19 October 2019 .
^ Kenneth Blackwell; Harry Ruja; Sheila Turcon (2 September 2003).
A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell: I. Separate Publications II. Serial Publications III. Indexes . Routledge. p. 188.
ISBN
978-1-134-81890-7 .
^ David James (6 October 2015).
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction, 1945-2010 . Cambridge University Press. p. 31.
ISBN
978-1-107-04023-6 .
^
William Llewelyn Davies .
"DAVIES, RICHARD ('Isgarn'; 1887-1947), farmer-shepherd and poet" . Welsh Biography Online .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 5 September 2018 .
^
Llyfr y Salmau: Cyfieithiad Cymraeg o'r Llyfr Cyntaf, sef Salmau I-XLI, gyda nodiadau ar y testun Hebraeg . Gwasg John Penry. 1967. p. 117.
^ Kate Roberts (1949).
Stryd y glep: Stori hir fer ar ffurf dyddiadur. Digwydd stori yn un o'r blynyddoedd yn union o flaen rhyfel 1939-45 . Gwasg Gee.
^ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998).
The new companion to the literature of Wales . University of Wales Press. p. 719.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1383-1 .
^
Simon Callow (3 August 2012).
"Ivor Novello, master of the musical" .
The Guardian . Retrieved 4 August 2012 .
^
"Blue Scar (1949)" .
Screenonline .
British Film Institute . Retrieved 5 September 2018 .
^ Asa Briggs (1995).
The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume IV: Sound and Vision . OUP Oxford. pp. 106–.
ISBN
978-0-19-212967-3 .
^ Dai Smith; Gareth Williams (1 January 1980).
Fields of Praise: The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1881-1981 . University of Wales Press. p. 129.
ISBN
978-0-7083-0766-3 .
^ G. L. Hough (1 January 1989).
Chambers dates . Chambers. p. 57.
ISBN
978-0-550-11831-8 .
^ John Toshack (12 November 2018).
Toshack's Way: My Journey Through Football . deCoubertin Books. p. 23.
ISBN
978-1-909245-71-6 .
^
Who's Who in European Politics . Bowker-Saur. December 1990. p. 323.
ISBN
978-0-86291-911-5 .
^ Peter Jackson (1998).
Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends . Mainstream. p. 214.
ISBN
978-1-84018-026-8 .
^ Carlos Ramet (1999).
Ken Follett: The Transformation of a Writer . Popular Press. p. 9.
ISBN
978-0-87972-798-7 .
^ Peter Jackson (6 October 2011).
Triumph and Tragedy: Welsh Sporting Legends . Mainstream Publishing. p. 61.
ISBN
978-1-78057-174-4 .
^
"Poldark actress Angharad Rees dies from cancer" . BBC News. 21 July 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2012 .
^ David Scott Kastan (2006).
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature . Oxford University Press. p. 34.
ISBN
978-0-19-516921-8 .
^
"UK: Wales: AMs" . BBC News . Retrieved 15 October 2019 .
^
"Welcome" . Artie Moore Amateur Radio Society . Retrieved 22 September 2019 .
^ Williamson, Philip (2004). "Thomas, James Henry".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 54. Oxford University Press. pp. 342–3.
ISBN
0-19-861404-7 .
^ William Llewelyn Davies.
"Jones, Sir Evan Davies (1859-1949), 1st baronet, of Pentower, Fishguard, civil engineer, Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019 .
^ Dai Smith; Gareth Williams (1 January 1980).
Fields of Praise: The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1881-1981 . University of Wales Press. p. 310.
ISBN
978-0-7083-0766-3 .
^
"Death details at freebmd.org.uk" . freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012 .
^ Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams.
"Anwyl, John Bodvan ('Bodfan'; 1875-1949), minister (Congl.), lexicographer, and author" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019 .
^ William Llewelyn Davies.
"Chappell, Edgar Leyshon (1879-1949), sociologist, a pioneer of town and village redevelopment, and writer" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019 .
^ John Ellis Meredith.
"Davies, George Maitland Lloyd (1880-1949), Calvinistic Methodist minister and apostle of peace" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 September 2019 .