This article is about the particular significance of the year 1853 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May) Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall
Events 23 January — Six members of the Rhyl lifeboat crew are drowned when the boat overturns. 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. 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.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. 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 HathiTrust book record 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 31 March — John Roberts, missionary (d. 1949 in Wales)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) 20 August — Charles Lewis, rugby player (d. 1923) 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 27 January — John Iltyd Nicholl, MP and judge, 55 18 February — Richard Jones, preacher, 72/73 6 April — John Jones, Anglican priest, scholar and literary patron, 70 24 April — Thomas Prothero, coal-owner, 73 17 November — Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort, 61 18 November — David Bowen, Felinfoel, Baptist minister, 78
See also 1853 in Ireland
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