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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1955 to
Wales and
its people.
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in
Pwllheli)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair –
Gwilym Ceri Jones, "Gwrtheyrn"
[9]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown –
W. J. Gruffydd, "Ffenestri"
[10]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – M. Selyf Roberts, Deg o'r Diwedd
[11]
-
Emyr Humphreys wins the Somerset Maugham Award for Hear and Forgive.
Welsh-language television
- January – First televised Welsh-language play, Cap Wil Tomos
English-language television
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22 January –
Clive Griffiths, footballer (died
2022)
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30 January –
Ian Edwards, footballer
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23 February –
Howard Jones, English-born musician of Welsh parentage
[19]
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4 March –
Joey Jones, footballer
[20]
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17 March –
John David Lewis, political scientist and historian
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2 May –
Peter Sayer, footballer
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17 May –
Nicola Heywood-Thomas, broadcaster and journalist (died
2023)
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22 May –
Maggie Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, politician
-
9 June –
Alun Pugh, politician
[21]
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21 June (in Sunderland) –
Janet Ryder, politician
[22]
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22 June –
Green Gartside (Paul Julian Strohmeyer), musician
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2 August –
Alun Davies, biologist
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3 August –
Gordon Davies, footballer
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4 August –
Steve Jones, marathon runner
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3 September –
Eirian Williams, snooker referee
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29 September –
Gareth Davies, rugby player
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12 October –
Brian Flynn, footballer and manager
[23]
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17 November –
Amanda Levete, architect
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7 December –
Mihangel Morgan, author and academic
[24]
- date unknown
-
5 January –
Douglas Marsden-Jones, Wales and British Lions rugby player, 61
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25 January –
Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, clergyman and author, 84
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26 January –
Gwilym Davies, Baptist minister, 75
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29 January – Sir
Rhys Rhys-Williams, politician, 89
-
19 March –
Tom Evans, Wales international rugby player, 72
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2 April –
Billy O'Neill, Welsh international rugby player, 76
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27 April –
Ambrose Bebb, author, 60
[26]
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19 May –
Percy Bush, Wales international rugby union player, 75
-
21 June –
Eric Evans, rugby union player and administrator, 61
[27]
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13 July –
Ruth Ellis, murderer, 28 (hanged)
[28]
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28 August – Sir
Lewis Lougher, businessman and politician, 83
[29]
-
28 September –
Lionel Rees, airman, Victoria Cross recipient, 71
-
14 October –
Harry Parr Davies, songwriter, 41
[30]
-
15 October –
Thomas Jones (T. J.), founder of
Coleg Harlech, 85
[31]
-
30 October –
Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player, 83
-
1 November –
Ronw Moelwyn Hughes, politician, 58
-
15 December –
V. E. Nash-Williams, archaeologist, 58
[32]
- date unknown –
Melbourne Johns, munitions worker and wartime secret agent, 55
-
^
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^ American Alpine Club (31 October 1997).
American Alpine Journal, 1979. The Mountaineers Books. p. 36.
ISBN
978-0-930410-75-9.
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^ Cragg, Roger, ed. (1986).
Civil Engineering Heritage: Wales and West Central England. London: Thomas Telford Publishing. p. 78.
ISBN
0-7277-2576-9.
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^
"From humble beginnings... a history of the FUW".
North Wales Daily Post. 17 November 2005. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
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^ Peter Self; Herbert J. Storing (1963).
The State and the Farmer. University of California Press. pp.
57. GGKEY:Z0JQUCL5Z4C.
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^ David Williams (2005).
About Cardiff. Graffeg. p. 21.
ISBN
978-0-9544334-2-0.
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^
Time & Tide. Time and Tide Publishing Company. July 1955.
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^ John Davies; Nigel Jenkins; Menna Baines (2008).
The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1953-6.
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^
"Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
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^
"Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
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^
"Winners of the Prose Medal". National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
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^ Nick Bentley (2007).
Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s. Peter Lang. p. 303.
ISBN
978-3-03910-934-0.
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^ John Pateman (2012).
T.E. Lawrence in Lincolnshire. p. 55.
ISBN
978-1-4717-6243-7.
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^
"Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas in Wales". BBC Wales. 6 November 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
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^ W. Moelwyn Merchant (1979).
R.S. Thomas. University of Arkansas Press. p. 27.
ISBN
978-1-61075-333-3.
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^ 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.
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^ 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.
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^
"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
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^
"Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
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^
"Liverpool career stats for Joey Jones". Liverpool FC. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
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^
"Pugh, Alun John". Who's Who. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
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^
"People in the Assembly". BBC News. 1 September 1999. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
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^
"Brian Flynn". Port Talbot Magnet. Retrieved 18 March 2020.[
permanent dead link]
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^
International Who's who of Authors and Writers. Europa Publications, Taylor & Francis Group. 2008. p. 518.
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^ Moore, David (2012). A Taste of the Avant-garde: 56 Group Wales. Brecon, Powys: Crooked Window. p. 74.
ISBN
978-0-9563602-1-2.
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^ Thomas Parry.
"Bebb, William Ambrose". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
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^ Owen, O.L., ed. (1956). Playfair Rugby Football Annual 1955–56. London: Playfair Books Ltd.
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^
"Autopsy Report of Ruth Ellis". Retrieved 17 March 2019.
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^ "Obituary: Sir L. Lougher, Cardiff Shipowner".
The Times. 30 August 1955. p. 11.
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^
"The Final Curtain". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 22 October 1955. p. 48.
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^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1992).
Trafodion Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas Y Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 196.
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^ George Counsell Boon.
"NASH-WILLIAMS, VICTOR ERLE". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 March 2019.