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:1853 in Wales

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

Incumbents

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  • Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins{{cite news|title=Editorial|url=http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4353246/ART15|access-date=17 January 2022|newspaper=Welshman|date=6 October 1865}}{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
  • Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
  • Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872|title=Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=5 December 2021}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874|title=Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=16 January 2022}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May){{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/talbot-christopher-1803-1890|title=TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=18 January 2022}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh{{cite book|author=Amy Audrey Locke|title=The Hanbury Family|publisher=Arthur L. Humphreys|year=1916|page=147}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/hanbury-tracy-charles-1778-1858|title=Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont.| publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date = 2 July 2013}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet{{cite web |last1=Thorne |first1=R.G. |title=John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 |website=History of Parliament |access-date=27 March 2020}}
  • Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}
  • Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=305}}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant{{cite book|author1=Frederick Arthur Crisp|author2=Joseph Jackson Howard|title=Visitation of England and Wales|year=1898|page=15}}
  • Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short{{cite book|author=Nicholas Harris Nicolas|title=The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope|publisher=John Murray|year=1857|page=533}}{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
  • Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall{{cite book|title=Old Yorkshire, volume 3|year=1882|page=90}}{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=307}}{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}

Events

  • 23 January — Six members of the Rhyl lifeboat crew are drowned when the boat overturns.{{cite book|author=British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting|title=Report of the Annual Meeting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RvsAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA323|year=1858|publisher=Office of the British Association|pages=323}}
  • 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.{{cite book|title=Reports from Commissioners, Vol. XXXVIII, Railways, Woods and Forests, Local Acts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GadbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA68|year=1854|pages=68}}
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  • 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.{{cite book | last = Evans | first = Neil | title = Writing a Small Nation's Past : Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850-1950 | publisher = Taylor and Francis | location = London | year = 2016 | isbn = 9781134786619 | page=149}}
  • 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.Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society 2:3 (December 1918) p. 115.
  • 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.{{cite book|title=Bwletin Y Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rX1nAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=University of Wales Press|page=166}}
  • Robert Fulke Greville the younger returns to his family estate at Milford Haven.

Arts and literature

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Births

  • 31 March — John Roberts, missionary (d. 1949 in Wales)[http://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/reverend-john-roberts The Reverend John Roberts, Missionary to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes], WyoHistory,org, retrieved 01-06-2014.
  • 20 May — John Owen Williams, Congregational minister, poet and Archdruid (died 1932){{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-OWE-1853|title=Williams, John Owen (Pedrog; 1853-1932)|author=Idwal Lewis|access-date=18 September 2019}}
  • 20 August — Charles Lewis, rugby player (d. 1923){{cite DWB|id=s-LEWI-PRY-1853| title=Lewis, Charles Prytherch (1853–1923), Welsh Rugby footballer and Oxford 'triple Blue' | last=Williams |first=Moelwyn Idwal| accessdate=16 May 2008}}
  • 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{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21428|title=Oxford DNB article: Parry, Sir Love Parry Jones|last=Chichester|first=H.M.|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=2008-12-17}}
  • 27 January — John Iltyd Nicholl, MP and judge, 55{{cite DWB|title=Nicholl, John (1797-1853)|id=s-NICH-JOH-1797|author=Henry John Randall|accessdate=20 May 2020}}
  • 18 February — Richard Jones, preacher, 72/73{{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-RIC-1780|title=Jones, Richard (1780-1853), itinerant Independent preacher|author=Richard Griffith Owen|year =1959|access-date=20 January 2022}}
  • 6 April — John Jones, Anglican priest, scholar and literary patron, 70{{cite DWB|title=Jones, John (1773–1853), cleric|id=s3-JONE-JOH-1773|year=2007|last=Lloyd|first=David Tecwyn|accessdate=20 May 2020}}
  • 24 April — Thomas Prothero, coal-owner, 73
  • 17 November — Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort, 61{{cite book |last= Doyle | first=James E. |title=The Official Baronage of England | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CFpmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA136 | volume= I | year=1886 | publisher=Longmans, Green and Co. | page=136 | accessdate=7 March 2009}}
  • 18 November — David Bowen, Felinfoel, Baptist minister, 78{{cite DWB|title=David Bowen|id=s3-BOWE-DAV-1774|accessdate=5 July 2016}}

See also

References

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