1972 in Wales
List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1972 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
Drama
Music
Film
Welsh-language films
The Song We Sing Is About Freedom
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
English-language television
Sport
Births
27 January
March - Helen Raynor , dramatist and screenwriter
23 March – Joe Calzaghe , boxer[ 20]
10 April – Chris Corcoran , comedian
7 June – Sian Lloyd , television news presenter
5 July – Nia Roberts , actress
20 August – Scott Quinnell , rugby player[ 21]
24 August – Jason Bowen , footballer
4 September – Guto Pryce , musician
23 September – Julian Winn , cyclist[ 22]
3 October – Josie d'Arby , actress and television presenter
4 November – Tim Vincent , television presenter
27 December – Colin Charvis , rugby player[ 23]
Deaths
17 January – Stan Davies , footballer, 73
4 February – Sir Charles Robert Harington , chemist, 74[ 24]
25 February – S. O. Davies , politician, 85[ 25]
27 February – Will James , dual-code rugby player, 69
7 March – Jack Morley , Wales and British Lions rugby player, 62
10 March – Gwynfor Davies , cricketer, 63
20 March – Dudley Lloyd-Evans , First World War flying ace, 76 or 77[ 26]
28 March – James Edward Nichols , geneticist, 69[ 27]
10 April – Ormond Jones , footballer, 61
28 May – The Duke of Windsor , Prince of Wales 1910–1936), 77
14 June (at Goathurst ) – Glyn Simon , Archbishop of Wales (1968–71), 69
9 July – Sir Henry Morris-Jones , doctor, soldier and politician, 87[ 28]
10 July – Emrys Jones , actor, 56 (heart attack)[ 29]
12 August – Reg Anderson , cricketer, 58
28 September – Tom Roberts , Wales international rugby union player, 75?
19 October
6 November – Hilary Marquand , economist and MP, 70[ 30]
13 November – Glyn Prosser , dual-code rugby player, 64
30 November – Frank Evans , dual-code international rugby player, 75
4 December – Lynn Ungoed-Thomas , politician and judge, 68[ 31]
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See also
References
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^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales . Oxford University Press. p. 589 . ISBN 978-0-19-211586-7 .
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^ Ross Reyburn (26 July 2013). John Dawes: The Man who changed the world of Rugby . Y Lolfa. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-84771-614-9 .
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^ "The Hypermarket — Gold mine or white elephant" . International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management . 1 (6). MCB: 42– 44. doi :10.1108/eb017761 .
^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1972). Papers by command . HMSO. p. 44.
^ Fisk, Stephen (June 2009). "Abandoned Communities - Machynys" . Retrieved 2009-08-05 .
^ British Dam Society. Conference; British Dam Society (1998). The Prospect for Reservoirs in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the BDS . Thomas Telford. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-7277-2704-6 .
^ "Winners of the Chair" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^ "Winners of the Crown" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . 17 November 2019.
^ "Winners of the Prose Medal" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
^ Meic Stephens (1998). Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru . University of Wales Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1 .
^ Europa Publications (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 . Psychology Press. p. 279. ISBN 978-1-85743-179-7 .
^ Felicia Hughes-Freeland (16 December 2003). Ritual, Performance, Media . Routledge. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-134-71382-0 .
^ Bibliotheca Celtica . The Library. 1976. p. 385. ISBN 9780901833792 .
^ Anthony Hayward (8 July 2019). "Glyn Houston Obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 25 May 2022 .
^ "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners" . BBC Sport . Retrieved 29 July 2021 .
^ Joe Calzaghe (1 April 2010). No Ordinary Joe . Random House. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-4090-6452-7 .
^ Scott Quinnell (2012). The Hardest Test . Headline. ISBN 9781909335462 .
^ "Julian WINN - Wales [WAL]" . Commonwealth Games 2002 . Retrieved 7 November 2021 .
^ "Wales at the Rugby World Cup 1999" . Wales Rugby Union. Archived from the original on 2009-02-12. Retrieved 7 November 2021 .
^ Himsworth, H. ; Pitt-Rivers, R. (1972). "Charles Robert Harington. 1897-1972". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 18 : 266– 308. doi :10.1098/rsbm.1972.0009 . PMID 11615748 . S2CID 31136079 .
^ Griffiths, Robert (1983). S. O. Davies: A Socialist Faith . Llandysul, Dyfed: Gomer Press. p. 295. ISBN 978-0-85088-887-4 .
^ Lockie, Rosemary (2015). "Some Memorial Inscriptions, Boddington, Gloucestershire" . places.wishful-thinking.org.uk . Retrieved 13 May 2015 .
^ Royal Society of Edinburgh (1971). Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Royal Society of Edinburgh. p. 46.
^ John Graham Jones. "Morris-Jones, John Henry (1884-1972), Liberal/National Liberal politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2021 .
^ "Emrys Jones, a British stage and film actor, was found dead..." New York Times . July 11, 1972. Retrieved February 12, 2021 .
^ John Graham Jones. "Marquand, Hilary (1901-1972), economist and Labour politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
^ John Graham Jones. "Ungoed-Thomas (Arwyn) Lynn (1904-1972), Labour politician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 December 2019 .
^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 76. ISBN 978-1905891610 .