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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1953 to
Wales and
its people .
The
Royal Badge of Wales with its 1953
augmentation of honour
Welsh-language television
1 March – First broadcast of a television programme entirely in Welsh: a religious service from the Tabernacle Baptist Chapel, Cardiff.
English-language television
10 February –
Jeffrey John , Dean of St Albans
[20]
15 March -
Alan Couch , footballer
11 April –
Rhodri Glyn Thomas
AM , politician
12 April –
Huw Edwards , Labour politician, MP for Monmouth 1991–1992 and 1997–2005
26 April –
Andy Secombe , voice actor and fantasy novelist
8 June –
Bonnie Tyler , singer
[21]
7 July –
Eleri Rees , judge
[22]
11 July –
Nigel Rees , footballer
20 July –
Dave Evans , singer
10 August –
Gillian Elisa , actress, singer and comedian
2 September –
Keith Allen , comedian and actor
28 October –
Phil Dwyer , footballer
16 November –
Griff Rhys Jones , actor, comedian and television presenter
[23]
Shani Rhys James , Australian-born painter
Hywel Williams , Plaid Cymru politician, MP for Caernarfon, later Arfon 2001–
10 January –
Howell Elvet Lewis ("Elved"), poet and Archdruid, 92
[24]
7 March –
Jack Williams , Victoria Cross recipient, 66
20 March –
Fred Parfitt , Wales international rugby player, 83
24 March –
Mary of Teck ,
Princess of Wales 1910–1936, queen consort of the United Kingdom 1936–1952, 85
[25]
6 April –
Idris Davies , poet, 48
[26]
30 April – Sir
David Rocyn-Jones , medical practitioner and President of the WRU, 90
[27]
2 May –
Thomas Mardy Rees , author, 81/82
[28]
23 May –
Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway , industrialist, horticulturalist and politician, 74
[29]
5 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones ("
Moelona "), novelist, 75
[30]
18 June –
Reg Plummer , Wales and British Lion rugby union player, 64
26 August –
Rachel Barrett , Welsh editor and suffragette, 77
[31]
9 November –
Dylan Thomas , poet, 39
[32]
11 November –
John Glyn Davies , poet and children's writer, 83
[33]
26 November – Sir
Ivor Atkins , organist and choirmaster, 83
[34]
27 November –
T. F. Powys , Anglo-Welsh writer, 77
[35]
17 December –
David Rees Griffiths , poet, 71
^ Carr, H. Gresham (1961).
Flags of the World . London: Warne. p. 66.
^
The London Gazette . H.M. Stationery Office. 1953. p. 2978.
^ "The Queen At Eisteddfod: Visit To Wales Concluded, Caernarvon Castle Ceremony".
The Times . No. 52671. London. 1953-07-11. p. 6.
^ Goronwy Rees (2001).
Goronwy Rees: Sketches in Autobiography . University of Wales Press. p. xvi.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1676-4 .
^
The London Gazette . H.M. Stationery Office. 1953. p. 3677.
^ Everett Aaker (16 May 2017).
Television Western Players, 1960-1975: A Biographical Dictionary . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 308.
ISBN
978-1-4766-2856-1 .
^ James Nicholas (1975).
Waldo Williams . University of Wales Press; the Welsh Arts Council. p. 65.
ISBN
9780708305850 .
^
Wilson library bulletin . 1952. p. 60.
^
"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 .
^ Keri Edwards; Welsh Arts Council (1974).
Jack Jones . University of Wales Press [for] the Welsh Arts Council. p. 64.
ISBN
9780708305522 .
^
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium . Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. 1998. p. 439.
ISBN
9780674023840 .
^
Bwletin Y Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd . University of Wales Press. 1987. p. 56.
^ Eurwyn Wiliam (1986).
The Historical Farm Buildings of Wales . John Donald Publishers. p. 184.
ISBN
978-0-85976-136-9 .
^ British Broadcasting Corporation (1954).
Annual Report and Accounts .
^ Jamie Medhurst (1 June 2010).
A History of Independent Television in Wales . University of Wales Press. pp. 25–.
ISBN
978-0-7083-2308-3 .
^
Radio Times . G. Newnes. 1953. p. 24.
^
The British Archer . 1957. p. 241.
^
"John, Very Rev. Jeffrey Philip Hywel" . UK Who's Who . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
^ Fred Bronson (1985).
The Billboard book of number one hits . Billboard Publications. p.
1980 .
ISBN
978-0-8230-7522-5 .
^ 'REES, Eleri Mair',
Who's Who 2017 , A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016
accessed 11 Oct 2017
^ David Housham; John Frank-Keyes; Tiger Television (30 November 1992).
Funny business . Boxtree. p. 170.
ISBN
978-1-85283-792-1 .
^ National Library of Wales (1951).
Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors . National Library of Wales. p. 12.
^
"1953: Queen Mary dies peacefully after illness" , BBC News , retrieved 29 May 2018
^ Idris Davies; Dafydd Johnston (1994).
The complete poems of Idris Davies . University of Wales Press. p. xxix.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1272-8 .
^ Royal Society of Health (Great Britain) (1953).
Journal: Supplement to V. ... p. 466.
^ Evan David Jones.
"Rees, Thomas Mardy (1871-1953), Independent minister, historian and author" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 March 2019 .
^ Ray Desmond (25 February 1994).
Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers . CRC Press. p. 456.
ISBN
978-0-85066-843-8 .
^ David Jenkins.
"Jones, Elizabeth Mary ('Moelona'; 1877-1953), teacher and novelist" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 March 2019 .
^ Morrell, Caroline. "Rachel Barrett".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/63825 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
"Dylan Thomas: Death of a Poet" . BBC Wales. 6 November 2008. Retrieved 15 July 2012 .
^ Robert Geraint Gruffydd.
"Davies, John Glyn (1870-1953), scholar, songwriter and poet" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 March 2019 .
^ Moore, Jerrold Northrop (May 2008).
"Atkins, Sir Ivor Algernon (1869–1953)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
Oxford University Press . Retrieved 2009-02-05 .
^ J. Lawrence Mitchell (2005).
T. F. Powys: aspects of a life . Brynmill Press Ltd. p. 163.
ISBN
978-0-907839-86-6 .