1853 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1853 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 23 January — Six members of the Rhyl lifeboat crew are drowned when the boat overturns.[1]
- 11 November — Approval is given for the opening of the Vale of Neath Railway line from Gelli Tarw to Merthyr Tydfil, which had been postponed on safety grounds.[2]
- date unknown
- David Williams (Alaw Goch) opens a new colliery at Cwmdare.
- Blaenavon Ironworks adopts the hot blast process.
- John Williams (Ab Ithel) quarrels with his friend and co-editor Harry Longueville Jones and resigns the editorship of Archaeologia Cambrensis.
- Two Welsh translations of Uncle Tom's Cabin are published: Caban F'Ewyrth Twm by Hugh Williams (Cadfan) and (an abridged version) Crynodeb o Gaban ‘Newyrth Tom by (probably) Thomas Levi (or William Williams) under the pen-name Y Lefiad.[3]
- William Roberts (Nefydd) is appointed South Wales agent for the British and Foreign Schools Society.
- Hugh Owen becomes Chief Clerk of the Poor Law Commission.[4]
- Robert Fulke Greville the younger returns to his family estate at Milford Haven.
Arts and literature
Awards
- William Thomas (Islwyn) wins his first major eisteddfod prize at Cefn-Coed-y-Cymer.
New books
- B. B. Woodward — The History of Wales [5]
- W. Downing Evans — The Gwyddonwyson Wreath
- John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) — British Jews
- Richard Williams Morgan — Raymonde de Monthault, The Lord Marcher
- Thomas Rowland — Welsh Grammar
- William Spurrell — English-Welsh Dictionary
- Isaac Williams — Sermons on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holy Days
- Benjamin Thomas Williams — Desirableness of a University for Wales
Music
- Robert James (Jeduthyn) marries the sister of fellow musician Joseph Parry.
Visual arts
- John Evan Thomas — John, Marquis of Bute (bronze casting, Cardiff)
Births
- 9 March — Edward Thomas (Cochfarf), local politician (d. 1912)
- 31 March — John Roberts, missionary (d. 1949 in Wales)[6]
- 20 May — John Owen Williams, Congregational minister, poet and Archdruid (died 1932)[7]
- 20 August — Charles Lewis, rugby player (d. 1923)[8]
- 26 September — Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player (d. 1889)
- 27 September — William Pari Huws, minister and poet (d. 1936)
- 5 October — Garrod Thomas, physician, philanthropist, magistrate, politician (d. 1889)
Deaths
- 23 January — Sir Love Jones-Parry, army officer and politician, 71[9]
- 27 January — John Iltyd Nicholl, MP and judge, 55[10]
- 6 April — John Jones, Anglican priest, scholar and literary patron, 70[11]
- 24 April — Thomas Prothero, coal-owner, 73
- 17 November — Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort, 61[12]
- 18 November — David Bowen, Felinfoel, Baptist minister, 78[13]
References
- British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1858). Report of the Annual Meeting. Office of the British Association. p. 323.
- Reports from Commissioners, Vol. XXXVIII, Railways, Woods and Forests, Local Acts. 1854. p. 68.
- Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society 2:3 (December 1918) p. 115.
- Bwletin Y Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd. University of Wales Press. 1966. p. 166.
- Hathi Trust book record
- The Reverend John Roberts, Missionary to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes, WyoHistory,org, retrieved 01-06-2014.
- Idwal Lewis. "Williams, John Owen (Pedrog; 1853-1932)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
- Williams, Moelwyn Idwal. "Lewis, Charles Prytherch (1853–1923), Welsh Rugby footballer and Oxford 'triple Blue'". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2008.
- Chichester, H.M. (2004). "Oxford DNB article: Parry, Sir Love Parry Jones". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
- Henry John Randall. "Nicholl, John (1797-1853),". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
- Lloyd, David Tecwyn (2007). "Jones, John (1773–1853), cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
- Doyle, James E. (1886). The Official Baronage of England. Vol. I. Longmans, Green and Co. p. 136. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
- "David Bowen". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
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