1853 in Wales

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

← 1852 1851 1850 1849 1848 1853 in Wales → 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1853 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

1. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1858). Report of the Annual Meeting. Office of the British Association. p. 323.
2. Reports from Commissioners, Vol. XXXVIII, Railways, Woods and Forests, Local Acts. 1854. p. 68.
3. Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society 2:3 (December 1918) p. 115.
4. Bwletin Y Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd. University of Wales Press. 1966. p. 166.
5. Hathi Trust book record
6. The Reverend John Roberts, Missionary to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes, WyoHistory,org, retrieved 01-06-2014.
7. Idwal Lewis. "Williams, John Owen (Pedrog; 1853-1932)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
8. 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.
9. Chichester, H.M. (2004). "Oxford DNB article: Parry, Sir Love Parry Jones". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
10. Henry John Randall. "Nicholl, John (1797-1853),". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
11. Lloyd, David Tecwyn (2007). "Jones, John (1773–1853), cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
12. Doyle, James E. (1886). The Official Baronage of England. Vol. I. Longmans, Green and Co. p. 136. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
13. "David Bowen". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 July 2016.