1950 in Wales - Events

Events

  • February - Dylan Thomas makes his first visit to America.
  • 23 February - For the first time ever, the Labour Party contests all Parliamentary seats in Wales. Following the General Election, Wales has 27 Labour MPs, 4 Liberals, 3 Conservatives and one National Liberal/Conservative.
    • University of Wales seat is abolished.
    • Roderic Bowen is re-elected for Cardiganshire, with the largest Liberal majority in the country.
    • David Ormsby-Gore, the future Lord Harlech, becomes MP for Oswestry.
    • Abertillery's Labour MP, George Daggar, dies later in the year, to be replaced by Llywelyn Williams.
    • Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, following the abolition of his Llandaff and Barry constituency, is elected MP for Leicester North East.
    • Roy Jenkins, whose Southwark seat has been abolished, is elected for Birmingham Stechford.
    • Elwyn Jones becomes MP for West Ham South.
    • Following the election, Ness Edwards becomes Postmaster-General. During his time in the role, he introduces the greetings telegram.
  • 12 March - 80 of the 83 people on board an Avro Tudor V aircraft are killed when it crashes at Llandow in Glamorgan, making it the world's worst air disaster for the time.
  • 27 August - Six people are killed in a rail collision at Penmaenmawr, Gwynedd.
  • 2 October - The Welsh Air Service, the world's first scheduled helicopter service operates between Cardiff, Wrexham and Liverpool.
  • In Swansea, three houses collapse, killing seven people.
  • Glanllyn is acquired as a permanent site for meetings of Urdd Gobaith Cymru.
  • In the Honours lists
    • Physicist Ezer Griffiths is awarded the O.B.E.
    • Agriculturist Thomas James Jenkin is awarded the C.B.E.
    • Industrialist Herbert Henry Merrett is knighted.
  • William Havard becomes Bishop of St David's.
  • Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda, becomes President of University College, Cardiff.

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