1853 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1853 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

Incumbent[]

• Monarch - Victoria

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 and (an abridged version) Crynodeb o Gaban ‘Newyrth Tom by (probably) Thomas Levi (or William Williams) under the pen-name Y Lefiad.^[3]
  • 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]
• — The Gwyddonwyson Wreath
• — 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[]

• marries the sister of fellow musician Joseph Parry.

Visual arts[]

• John Evan Thomas — John, Marquis of Bute (bronze casting, Cardiff)

Births[]

• 9 March — , 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 — , 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]

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