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List of events

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1955 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[edit]

Arts and literature[edit]

Awards[edit]

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Pwllheli)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Gwilym Ceri Jones, “Gwrtheyrn”[8]
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – W. J. Gruffydd, “Ffenestri”[9]
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – M. Selyf Roberts, Deg o’r Diwedd[10]
  • Emyr Humphreys wins the Somerset Maugham Award for Hear and Forgive.

New books[edit]

English language[edit]

Welsh language[edit]

New drama[edit]

Music[edit]

Broadcasting[edit]

Welsh-language television[edit]

  • January – First televised Welsh-language play, Cap Wil Tomos

English-language television[edit]

  • 22 January – Clive Griffiths, footballer (died 2022)
  • 30 January – Ian Edwards, footballer
  • 23 February – Howard Jones, English-born musician of Welsh parentage[18]
  • 4 March – Joey Jones, footballer[19]
  • 17 March – John David Lewis, political scientist and historian
  • 2 May – Peter Sayer, footballer
  • 22 May – Maggie Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, politician
  • 9 June – Alun Pugh, politician[20]
  • 21 June (in Sunderland) – Janet Ryder, politician[21]
  • 22 June – Green Gartside (Paul Julian Strohmeyer), musician
  • 2 August – Alun Davies, biologist
  • 3 August – Gordon Davies, footballer
  • 4 August – Steve Jones, marathon runner
  • 3 September – Eirian Williams, snooker referee
  • 29 September – Gareth Davies, rugby player
  • 12 October – Brian Flynn, footballer and manager[22]
  • 17 November – Amanda Levete, architect
  • 7 December – Mihangel Morgan, author and academic[23]
  • date unknown
  • 5 January – Douglas Marsden-Jones, Wales and British Lions rugby player, 61
  • 25 January – Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, clergyman and author, 84
  • 26 January – Gwilym Davies, Baptist minister, 75
  • 29 January – Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, politician, 89
  • 19 March – Tom Evans, Wales international rugby player, 72
  • 2 April – Billy O’Neill, Welsh international rugby player, 76
  • 27 April – Ambrose Bebb, author, 60[25]
  • 19 May – Percy Bush, Wales international rugby union player, 75
  • 21 June – Eric Evans, rugby union player and administrator, 61[26]
  • 13 July – Ruth Ellis, murderer, 28 (hanged)[27]
  • 28 August – Sir Lewis Lougher, businessman and politician, 83[28]
  • 28 September – Lionel Rees, airman, Victoria Cross recipient, 71
  • 14 October – Harry Parr Davies, songwriter, 41[29]
  • 15 October – Thomas Jones (T. J.), founder of Coleg Harlech, 85[30]
  • 30 October – Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player, 83
  • 1 November – Ronw Moelwyn Hughes, politician, 58
  • 15 December – V. E. Nash-Williams, archaeologist, 58[31]
  • date unknown – Melbourne Johns, munitions worker and wartime secret agent, 55

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ American Alpine Club (31 October 1997). American Alpine Journal, 1979. The Mountaineers Books. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-930410-75-9.
  3. ^ “From humble beginnings… a history of the FUW”. North Wales Daily Post. 17 November 2005. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  4. ^ Peter Self; Herbert J. Storing (1963). The State and the Farmer. University of California Press. pp. 57. GGKEY:Z0JQUCL5Z4C.
  5. ^ David Williams (2005). About Cardiff. Graffeg. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-9544334-2-0.
  6. ^ Time & Tide. Time and Tide Publishing Company. July 1955.
  7. ^ John Davies; Nigel Jenkins; Menna Baines (2008). The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
  8. ^ “Winners of the Chair”. National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  9. ^ “Winners of the Crown”. National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  10. ^ “Winners of the Prose Medal”. National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  11. ^ Nick Bentley (2007). Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s. Peter Lang. p. 303. ISBN 978-3-03910-934-0.
  12. ^ John Pateman (2012). T.E. Lawrence in Lincolnshire. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4717-6243-7.
  13. ^ “Dylan Thomas: A Child’s Christmas in Wales”. BBC Wales. 6 November 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
  14. ^ W. Moelwyn Merchant (1979). R.S. Thomas. University of Arkansas Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-61075-333-3.
  15. ^ Geraldine Lublin (15 May 2017). Memoir and Identity in Welsh Patagonia: Voices from a Settler Community in Argentina. University of Wales Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-78316-968-9.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ “BBC Wales Sport Personality winners”. BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  18. ^ “Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine”. AllMusic.com. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  19. ^ “Liverpool career stats for Joey Jones”. Liverpool FC. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  20. ^ “Pugh, Alun John”. Who’s Who. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  21. ^ “People in the Assembly”. BBC News. 1 September 1999. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  22. ^ “Brian Flynn”. Port Talbot Magnet. Retrieved 18 March 2020.[permanent dead link]
  23. ^ International Who’s who of Authors and Writers. Europa Publications, Taylor & Francis Group. 2008. p. 518.
  24. ^ Moore, David (2012). A Taste of the Avant-garde: 56 Group Wales. Brecon, Powys: Crooked Window. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-9563602-1-2.
  25. ^ Thomas Parry. “Bebb, William Ambrose”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  26. ^ Owen, O.L., ed. (1956). Playfair Rugby Football Annual 1955–56. London: Playfair Books Ltd.
  27. ^ “Autopsy Report of Ruth Ellis”. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  28. ^ “Obituary: Sir L. Lougher, Cardiff Shipowner”. The Times. 30 August 1955. p. 11.
  29. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (22 October 1955). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 48.
  30. ^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1992). Trafodion Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas Y Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 196.
  31. ^ George Counsell Boon. “NASH-WILLIAMS, VICTOR ERLE”. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 March 2019.