1853 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1853 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1853 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins[5][6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May)[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[15][2]
• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell[16][17]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant[18][19]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short[20][21][19]
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall[22][19][23]

Events

• 23 January — Six members of the Rhyl lifeboat crew are drowned when the boat overturns.[24]
• 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.[25]
• 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.[26]
  • 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.[27]
  • 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.[28]
  • 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 [29]
• 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

• 31 March — John Roberts, missionary (d. 1949 in Wales)[30]
• 20 May — John Owen Williams, Congregational minister, poet and Archdruid (died 1932)[31]
• 20 August — Charles Lewis, rugby player (d. 1923)[32]
• 26 September — Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player (d. 1889)
• 5 October — Garrod Thomas, physician, philanthropist, magistrate, politician (d. 1889)

Deaths

• 23 January — Sir Love Jones-Parry, army officer and politician, 71[33]
• 27 January — John Iltyd Nicholl, MP and judge, 55[34]
• 18 February — Richard Jones, preacher, 72/73[35]
• 6 April — John Jones, Anglican priest, scholar and literary patron, 70[36]
• 24 April — Thomas Prothero, coal-owner, 73
• 17 November — Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort, 61[37]
• 18 November — David Bowen, Felinfoel, Baptist minister, 78[38]

See also

• 1853 in Ireland

References

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2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
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18. Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.
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27. Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society 2:3 (December 1918) p. 115.
28. Bwletin Y Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd. University of Wales Press. 1966. p. 166.
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