1853 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1853 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 23 January — Six members of the Rhyl lifeboat crew are drowned.
- 2 November — Opening of the Vale of Neath Railway line from Gelli Tarw to Merthyr Tydfil.
- David Williams (Alaw Goch) opens a new colliery at Cwmdare.
- John Williams (Ab Ithel) quarrels with his friend and co-editor Harry Longueville Jones, and resigns the editorship of Archaeologia Cambrensis.
- Two 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 Thomas Levi or William Williams under the pen-name (Y Lefiad).[1]
- 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.
- 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. Davies — The History of Wales
- 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)
- 20 August — Charles Lewis, rugby player (d. 1923)
- 26 September — Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player (d. 1889)
- 27 September — William Pari Huws, minister and poet (d. 1936)
Deaths
- 24 April — Thomas Prothero, coal-owner, 73
- 27 January — John Iltyd Nicholl, MP and judge, 55
References
- ↑ probably Thomas Levi: see Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, Vol. 2, No. 3 December 1918, at p. 115.
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