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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1962 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

  • January–April – An outbreak of smallpox spreading from Cardiff infects 45 people and kills 19 in south Wales; 900,000 people in the region are vaccinated against the disease.[1]
  • 15 May – Emlyn Hooson wins the Montgomeryshire by-election brought about by the death of Clement Davies.[2] In the run-up to the by-election, the "Elvis Rock" is painted with the graffiti "Elis" by supporters of Plaid Cymru candidate Islwyn Ffowc Elis.
  • 20 July – The world's first regular passenger hovercraft service is introduced between Rhyl and Wallasey.[3]
  • 4 August – Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, the Welsh Language Society, is founded.[4]
  • September – Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, the first Welsh-medium secondary school in south Wales, opens its doors.[5]
  • 19 September – Atlantic College opens its doors for the first time at St Donat's Castle, marking the birth of the pioneering United World College educational movement.[6]
  • 26 October – Richard Thomas and Baldwins's new steelworks at Llanwern near Newport, is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.[7]
  • 28 October – Chepstow Railway Bridge rebuilding completed.
  • date unknown

Arts and literature

Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Llanelli)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Caradog Prichard
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – D. Emlyn Lewis
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – William Owen

New books

Music

  • Dilys Elwyn-Edwards – Caneuon y Tri Aderyn
  • Alun Hoddinott – Folksong Suite
  • William Mathias – Postlude
  • Grace Williams – Four Medieval Welsh Poems for alto, harp and harpsichord
  • David Wynne – Cymric Rhapsodies

Film

Broadcasting

Welsh-language radio

Television

English-language television

  • 17 September – First edition of the Welsh national news programme BBC Wales Today.

Sport

Births

  • 5 January – Geraint Williams, footballer
  • 11 January – Chris Bryant, politician
  • 16 January – Bethan Gwanas, Welsh-language writer
  • 25 May - Martin Goldsmith, footballer
  • 27 June – Michael Ball, singer
  • 22 August – Iolo Williams, naturalist and TV presenter
  • 28 August – David Melding, politician
  • 15 September – Kevin Allen, actor, comedian and film director
  • 22 July – Arthur Emyr, rugby player and television presenter and executive
  • 22 August – Iolo Williams, naturalist and broadcaster
  • 5 September – Peter Wingfield, actor
  • 15 October – Mark Ring, rugby player
  • 24 October – Jonathan Davies, rugby player
  • 11 November - Chris Sander, footballer
  • 12 December – John Jones, record producer
  • 31 December – Chris Hallam, wheelchair athlete
  • date unknown
    • Fiona Bennett, composer
    • Sioned Wiliam, broadcaster, writer and producer

Deaths

  • 18 January – Iolo Aneurin Williams, journalist, author and politician, 71[10]
  • 26 January – George Jeffreys, founder of the Elim Pentecostal Church,[11] 72
  • 11 February – John Edward Daniel, theologian, chairman of Plaid Cymru, 59 (road accident)[12]
  • 14 February – Ezer Griffiths, physicist, 73
  • 27 February – Albert Rhys Williams, Welsh-American journalist, labour organiser, and publicist, 78
  • 23 March – Clement Davies, politician, 80
  • April – Edgar Morgan, rugby union player, 80
  • 25 April – Herbie Baxter, Glamorgan cricketer, 79
  • 30 April – Charles Williams, Anglican priest and academic, 55[13]
  • 11 May – Eliot Crawshay-Williams, politician and author, 82[14]
  • 16 June – Edgar Rees Jones, barrister and politician, 83[15]
  • 24 June – Thomas Richards, historian, 84[16]
  • 3 August - Edgar Phillips, poet and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod, 72
  • 23 August - Robert Bye, VC recipient, 72
  • 23 September - Margaret Jane Gordon (Lady Gordon), singer, 82[17]
  • 5 November (in London) – Percy Cudlipp, journalist, 56[18]
  • 30 November – Lewis Pugh Evans, Victoria Cross recipient, 81[19]
  • 15 December – Charles Rhys, 8th Baron Dynevor, politician, 63[20]
  • 17 December – Lonza Bowdler, Wales international rugby player, 61
  • 21 December – Gary Hocking, motorcycle road racer, 25 (racing accident)

See also

References

  1. ^ "1962 south Wales smallpox outbreak memories recorded". BBC News. BBC. 2012-01-13. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
  2. ^ Vacher, Thomas Brittain (1963). Vacher's Parliamentary Companion. A.S. Kerswill. p. 93.
  3. ^ BPI. Transportation. BPI Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 978-81-8497-243-6.
  4. ^ Llafur: Journal of Welsh Labour History. Llafur. 1987. p. 87.
  5. ^ The Economist. Economist Newspaper Limited. 1985. p. 294.
  6. ^ "UWC Atlantic College". Retrieved 2015-12-16.
  7. ^ Metallurgia: The British Journal of Metals. Kennedy Press. 1962. p. 57.
  8. ^ Balch, Oliver (2019-08-22). "Richard Booth obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  9. ^ "Closed collections". The Bartlett Society. Archived from the original on 2015-04-04. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
  10. ^ Donald Moore. "Williams, Iolo Aneurin (1890-1962), journalist, author and art historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Come to Elim" – Healing and Revival
  12. ^ Jones, Robert Tudur. "Daniel, John Edward (1902–1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  13. ^ "The Rev. C. S. C. Williams – Chaplain of Merton". The Times. 3 May 1962. p. 19.
  14. ^ Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died. A. & C. Black. 2002. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-7136-6125-5.
  15. ^ Tanner, Duncan (2006). Debating nationhood and governance in Britain, 1885–1945: perspectives from the 'four nations'. Manchester University Press. p. 75. ISBN 0-7190-7166-6.
  16. ^ Gwilym Beynon Owen. "Richards, Thomas (1878-1962), librarian and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  17. ^ Martha Rutledge. "Gordon, Margaret Jane (1880–1962)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (MUP), 1983. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  18. ^ David Glanville Rosser. "Cudlipp, Percy (1905-1962), journalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  19. ^ Christopher Evans. "Evans, Lewis Pugh (1881-1962), soldier and public figure, Brigadier General, VC, CB, CMG, DSO". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  20. ^ Christopher Dignam. "Rhys, Walter Fitzuryan 7th. Baron Dynevor (1873-1956), nobleman and politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
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