1947 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1947 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

1 January - Nationalisation of the coal mining industry under the new National Coal Board.
1 March - Opening of Ysgol Gymraeg Dewi Sant, Llanelli, the first Welsh-medium school.
15 March - Cambrian Slate Quarry at Glyn Ceiriog formally notifies closure.
2-3 April - A British ship, the 1,580 ton Stancliffe, runs aground off Sharpness loaded with 3,000 tons of timber. Local shipyard engineer, Ivor Langford, manages to cut the vessel in two and sail both parts down to Cardiff Docks. There the two halves are joined together and the ship sails again under the new name of.
23 April - Wreck of the Samtampa on Sker rocks and loss of the Mumbles life-boat, Edward, Prince of Wales.
11 July - Ifan ab Owen Edwards is knighted.
September - Cardiff Castle is donated by the Marquess of Bute to the city of Cardiff.
12 November - Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton inadvertently reveals some of the contents of his Budget while on his way to the House of Commons to deliver his speech, effectively finishing his political career.
13 December - Royal Naval Air Station Dale, Pembrokeshire, closes.
Founded in this year are:
*Age Concern Cymru.
*BBC Welsh Chorus.
*Steel Company of Wales.
*Wales Gas Board.
Sir Frederick John Alban becomes President of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Chairman of the Welsh Hospitals Board.
David Brynmor Anthony is awarded the Médaille de Vermeil de la Reconnaissance Française by the government of France.

Cymru a Chynilo, A 7-minute public information about Post Office Savings is made in English and Welsh, narrated by Hugh Griffith.

10 January - Lillie Goodisson, nurse, late 80s
26 February - Percy Phillips OBE, Wales international rugby player and civil servant
16 March - Jack Powell, footballer, 86
24 March - John Henry Evans, Mormon teacher and writer, 74
26 March - Charles Alexander Harris, governor of Newfoundland, 91
31 March - John Phillips, Dean of Monmouth, 67 and ordained in 1909.
15 May - Arthur Harding, Wales international rugby union captain, 68
23 May - Richard Griffith (Carneddog), poet and journalist, 85
25 May - Samuel Clark, rugby official and international rugby player
20 June - Sir John Edward Lloyd, historian, 86
30 June - Jerry Shea, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player, 54
5 July - Jack Evans, Wales international rugby player, 72
7 July
* James Henry Howard, minister and writer, 70
* Johnny Basham, boxer, 56
23 July - David James Jones, philosopher, 60
10 August - David Evan Jones, missionary, 77
12 October - William Brace, politician, 82
18 October - Alexander Bland, Wales international rugby player, 80
16 November - Thomas Griffiths, Australian Army general, 82
22 November - James J. Davis, United States politician, 74
23 November
*Sir George Lockwood Morris, industrialist and Welsh international rugby player, 88
*Matthew W. Davies, musician, 65
12 December - William John Evans, musician and composer, 81
15 December - Arthur Machen, writer, 74
23 December - John Samuel, Wales international rugby player