1953 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1953 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1953 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

7 March – A "Saint David's Day" pageant is held in the streets of London.
11 March – The Royal Badge of Wales is granted an augmentation of honour including the motto Y Ddraig goch ddyry cychwyn ("The red dragon inspires action").^[1]
1 June – In the Queen's Coronation Honours List, Victoria Cross recipient Ted Chapman is awarded the British Empire Medal.
9 July – Elizabeth II makes her first visit to Wales since her 2 June Coronation.
10 July – The royal tour of Wales concludes with a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle and visits to the National Eisteddfod site at Rhyl, Wrexham and the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod.^[2]
2 December – Llandudno experiences unusually warm weather as a result of the "foehn effect".
The Royal College of General Practitioners is established in Wales.
Goronwy Rees becomes Principal of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Grismond Picton Philipps is knighted.

Dorothy Squires marries Roger Moore.
Thomas Parry (later Sir Thomas) becomes head of the National Library of Wales.
Waldo Williams leaves the Baptist denomination and becomes a Quaker.
Robert Frank photographs a Glamorgan mining village for U.S.Camera.
Susan Williams-Ellis joins her father, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, in his work on the village of Portmeirion.

8 June – Geraint Evans appears in the première of Benjamin Britten's Gloriana.

6 January – The Broadcasting Council for Wales meets for the first time.^[3]
January – Edward Williamson, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, broadcasts a lecture on Henry Vaughan on BBC radio.
9 December – In the UK Parliament, the Postmaster General, Earl De La Warr, confirms that none of the first independent television stations will be located in Wales.^[4]

1 March – First broadcast of a television programme entirely in Welsh: a religious service from the Tabernacle Baptist Chapel, Cardiff.

10 February – Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans
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
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

10 January – Howell Elvet Lewis ("Elved"), poet and Archdruid, 92
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 and Queen 1936–1952, 85
6 April – Idris Davies, poet, 48
30 April – Sir David Rocyn-Jones, medical practitioner and President of the WRU, 90
2 May – Thomas Mardy Rees, author
23 May – Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway, industrialist, horticulturalist and politician, 74
5 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones ("Moelona"), 75
18 June – Reg Plummer, Wales and British Lion rugby union player, 64
26 August – Rachel Barrett, Welsh editor and suffragette, 77
9 November – Dylan Thomas, poet, 39
11 November – John Glyn Davies, poet and children's writer, 83
26 November – Sir Ivor Atkins, organist and choirmaster, 83
27 November – T. F. Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer, 77
17 December – David Rees Griffiths, poet, 71

↑ Carr, H. Gresham (1961). Flags of the World. London: Warne. p. 66.
↑ "The Queen At Eisteddfod: Visit To Wales Concluded, Caernarvon Castle Ceremony". The Times (52671). London. 1953-07-11. p. 6.
↑ 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.

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