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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1957 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
Welsh language
English language
New drama
Music
Film
Broadcasting
Alun Oldfield-Davies becomes senior regional BBC controller, after several years of successful campaigning for Welsh-language television.
Welsh-language television
February – Cefndir (first regular Welsh-language programme)
September – Dewch i Mewn (magazine programme)
[20]
English-language television
Sport
Births
10 March –
Terry Holmes , rugby player
[22]
19 March (in
Birmingham ) –
Jane Davidson
AM , politician
20 April –
Geraint Wyn Davies , actor
26 April –
Edwina Hart
AM , politician
8 May –
Eddie Butler , rugby union player and commentator (died
2022 )
[23]
17 May –
Anne Main , educator and politician
12 June –
Javed Miandad , Glamorgan cricketer
1 July –
Wayne David
MP , politician
20 July –
Chris Bromham , stuntman
11 August –
Leighton Andrews
AM , politician
11 September –
Julie Williams , neuropsychological geneticist and Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales
11 October
19 October –
Karl Wallinger , folk rock songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (died
2024 )
10 November –
Nigel Evans
MP , politician
21 December –
Roger Blake , actor
Charlotte Voake , children's illustrator
[24]
Deaths
6 March –
Gwladys Evan Morris , actress and writer, 77
[25]
21 March –
Russell Thomas , doctor, lawyer and politician, 60
30 July –
William Richard Arnold , rugby player, 76
26 June –
John Morgan , Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of Llandaff, 71
[26]
1 August –
Llewellyn Lloyd , Wales international rugby union player, 80
15 August –
Alice Williams , writer, painter and voluntary worker, 94
[27]
20 August –
Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans , explorer and admiral, 75
12 September –
Tom Pearson , Wales national rugby player, 85
26 September –
Arthur Powell Davies , Unitarian minister and writer, 55
[28]
10 October –
Lloyd Davies , footballer, 80
[29]
12 November –
Wilfred Hodder , Wales international rugby player, 61
7 December
9 December –
Llewellyn Gwynne , first bishop of Egypt and Sudan, 94
[32]
See also
References
^ Thomas Glyn Watkin (2012). The Legal History of Wales . University of Wales Press. p. 192.
^ Mary Gwendoline Ellis (2001).
"Morgan, John (1886-1957), Archbishop of Wales" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 6 June 2022 .
^ John Stuart Peart-Binns (1 January 1990).
Alfred Edwin Morris, Archbishop of Wales . Gomer.
ISBN
978-0-86383-636-7 .
^ National Library of Wales (1955).
Annual Report – Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors . The Library.
^
"Former home of poet William Morris, Caernarfon" . HistoryPoints . Retrieved 6 June 2022 .
^
The Accountant . Lafferty Publications, Limited. 1957. p. 93.
^ Tony Curtis (7 February 2007).
After the First Death: An Anthology of Wales and War in the Twentieth Century . Seren Books.
ISBN
978-1-85411-450-1 .
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1971). British parliamentary Election Results 1950-1970 . Chichester: Political Reference Publications. p. 570.
ISBN
0 900178 02 7 .
^
"No. 41116" .
The London Gazette . 2 July 1957. p. 3964.
^ Matthew Jarvis (2008).
Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry: Writing Wales in English . University of Wales Press. p. 153.
ISBN
978-0-7083-2152-2 .
^ Alan Watkins (1 January 1990).
A slight case of libel: Meacher v Trelford and others . Duckworth. p.
20 .
ISBN
978-0-7156-2334-3 .
^ James Mitchell (15 October 2009).
Devolution in the UK . Manchester University Press. p. 51.
ISBN
978-0-7190-5358-0 .
^ International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Commission on Education and Communication (2002).
Education and Sustainability: Responding to the Global Challenge . IUCN. p. 82.
ISBN
978-2-8317-0623-8 .
^
"Winners of the Chair" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
^
"Winners of the Crown" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
^
"Winners of the Prose Medal" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
^ Colin Larkin (1993).
The Guinness who's who of fifties music . Guinness Publishing. p. 33.
ISBN
978-0-85112-732-3 .
^
The Anglo-Welsh Review . Dock Leaves Press. 1980. p. 129.
^ Marianne Barton (1979).
British Music Yearbook . Classical Music. p. 623.
ISBN
978-0-7136-1963-8 .
^ Jamie Medhurst (1 June 2010).
A History of Independent Television in Wales . University of Wales Press. pp. 29–.
ISBN
978-0-7083-2308-3 .
^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 29 July 2021 .
^ Peter Jackson (1998).
Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends . Mainstream.
ISBN
978-1-84018-026-8 .
^
"Eddie Butler, Wales rugby union international who went on to succeed Bill McLaren as the BBC's 'voice of rugby' – obituary" . The Telegraph . 16 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022 .
^
"Charlotte Voake - Literature" . literature.britishcouncil.org . Retrieved 8 January 2020 .
^
"Obituary: Gwladys Evan Morris" . The Stage . 14 March 1957. p. 10. Retrieved 5 July 2018 .
^ 'MORGAN, Most Rev. John',
Who Was Who , A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014
accessed 29 May 2017
^ Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, ‘Williams, Alice Helena Alexandra (1863–1957)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
accessed 20 Oct 2017
^ Felice Levy; Facts on File, Inc (1979).
Obituaries on File . Facts on File.
ISBN
978-0-87196-372-7 .
^ Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . Soccerdata.
ISBN
1-899468-67-6 .
^ Mary Gwendoline Ellis.
"Jones, Maurice (1863-1957), priest and college principal" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 July 2019 .
^
"Watkins, Alfred Ernest (Alf) (Ernie) (Fred)" . astonvillaplayerdatabase.com . Retrieved 15 December 2017 .
^ H̤̊asan Makkī Muh̤̊ammad Ah̤̊mad (1989).
Sudan, the Christian design: a study of the missionary factor in Sudan's cultural and political integration, 1843-1986 . Islamic Foundation.
ISBN
978-0-86037-193-9 .