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1853 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
17th 18th 19th 20th 21st

Decades:
  
1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

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

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
  • 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).
  • 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.

    • 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

    1853 in Wales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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