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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1943 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales – vacant
- Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Crwys
Events
- 29 January - In the by-election for the University of Wales parliamentary seat vacated by Ernest Evans, there are three notable candidates. W. J. Gruffydd, a former vice-president of Plaid Cymru who had subsequently joined the Liberal Party, triumphs over Plaid's Saunders Lewis. One of the other candidates is Alun Talfan Davies.
- 23 October - David Lloyd George marries his long-term mistress and secretary, Frances Stevenson, at Guildford register office.
- Sir Percy Thomas is elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects for the second time - the second person ever to achieve this.
Arts and literature
- The Welsh National Opera company is founded in Cardiff.
- Dame Laura Knight paints Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Newport.[1]
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys James
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Dafydd Owen
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld
New books
- Idris Davies - The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926
- Rhys John Davies - Pobl a Phethau
- Sir Emrys Evans - Ewthaffron: Criton (translation from Plato)
- William Evans (Wil Ifan) - A Quire of Rhymes
- R. T. Jenkins - Orinda
- Alwyn D. Rees - Adfeilion
Music
- Arwel Hughes - Antiomaros
- W. S. Gwynn Williams - Tosturi Duw (God's Mercy)
Film
- Ray Milland stars in Forever and a Day and The Crystal Ball.
- Drama documentary The Silent Village, filmed in 1942 at Cwmgiedd near Ystradgynlais by Humphrey Jennings, is released.
Broadcasting
- Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from a bomber over Berlin for BBC Radio.
Sport
Births
- 13 January – Lorna Sage, academic, literary critic and writer (died 2001)
- 1 February – Rosemarie Frankland, beauty queen (died 2000)
- 11 February – Win Griffiths MP, politician
- 3 March (in London) – Aeronwy Thomas, literary figure
- 1 April (in Derby) – Dafydd Wigley MP, politician
- 9 April – Clive Sullivan, rugby league footballer (died 1985)
- 16 April – Ruth Madoc, actress and singer
- 17 April – Elinor Bennett, harpist
- 26 April – Leon Pownall, actor and director
- 27 April – Gwyn Prosser MP, politician
- 6 June – Sir Terry Matthews, entrepreneur
- 7 July – Robert East, actor
- 2 August – Alun Michael MP, politician
- 17 August – John Humphrys, radio and TV journalist
- 24 August – Dafydd Iwan, musician and politician
- 10 September – Shân Legge-Bourke, born Elizabeth Shân Bailey, landowner
- 27 September – Max Boyce, entertainer
- 16 November – Val Lloyd AM, politician
- 28 December – Joan Ruddock MP, politician
- Undated – John Beard, painter
Deaths
- 9 January – William Llewellyn Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 70
- 12 January – Selwyn Biggs, Wales international rugby player and Glamorgan cricketer,
- 31 January – Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, physician, 85
- 1 March (in London) – Clara Novello Davies, singer, 71
- 6 March (in Trevelin) – John Daniel Evans, pioneer in Patagonia, 81
- 23 March – Commander John Wallace Linton, VC, 37
- 28 March – Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85
- 12 April – Arthur Lloyd James, phonetician
- 17 April – Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), author, 90
- 8 September – Dai Lewis, Wales international rugby player, 76
- 15 September – David Samuel, Wales international rugby player
- 24 September – Billy Douglas, Wales international rugby player, 80
- 15 October – Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, lawyer, 72
- 29 October – Frank Hancock, Wales international rugby union international, 84
- 10 December – Ivor Morgan, Wales international rugby union player, 59
- 27 December – Arthur O'Bree, Glamorgan cricketer, 57
References
- ↑ "A Gun Girl – Ruby Loftus – Dame Laura Knight's Newport commission". Wartime Newport: The Home Front.
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