1863 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1863 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse^[8]
  • Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley (until 19 February); Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley (from 21 April)^[14]
  • Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite^{[15] [2]}
• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell^{[16] [17]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant^[18]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short^{[19] [20]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall^{[21] [22] [23]}

Events

• 10 March – Marriage of Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, to Alexandra of Denmark. Alexandra becomes the first Princess of Wales since 1820.
• 28 July – The Anglesey Central Railway Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c.cxxviii) brings about the foundation of the Anglesey Central Railway.^[24]
• 23 October – Festiniog Railway introduces steam locomotives into general service, the first time this has been done anywhere in the world on a public railway of such a narrow gauge (2 ft (60 cm)).^[25]
• English church services are introduced for English-speaking minorities in Welsh-speaking areas.
• Sir Hugh Owen becomes an honorary secretary of the London committee formed to set up the University of Wales.
• Mesac Thomas becomes the first Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.
• Publication of The Bards of Wales, first written in 1857 by Hungarian poet János Arany, using the story of Edward I's conquest of Wales to disguise criticism of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
• Machynlleth born John Evans arrives in British Columbia, Canada, with a group of other Welsh miners. He subsequently becomes a major political figure in the province.
• Spa pump room built at Trefriw.
• Guest Memorial Library at Dowlais opened.

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Swansea.
• The Newdigate Prize is awarded to Thomas Llewellyn Thomas.

New books

• John Ceiriog Hughes – Cant o Ganeuon
• John Jones (Ioan Emlyn) – Golud yr Oes
• David William Nash – The Pharaoh of the Exodus
• Ebenezer Thomas – Cyff Beuno

Music

• John Ceiriog Hughes – Cant O Ganeuon
• John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) – Llewelyn (cantata)^[26]

Sport

• Cricket
  • 23 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.
  • 27 July – South Wales Cricket Club defeat Gentlemen of Kent at Cranbrook.

Births

• 15 January – James Webb, Wales rugby international (died 1913)
• 17 January – David Lloyd George, politician (died 1945)^[27]
• 3 March – Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947)^[28]
• 16 March – Dan Beddoe, operatic tenor (died 1937)
• 25 March – Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant (died 1937)^[29]
• 13 April – Walter E. Rees, Secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union (died 1949)
• May – William Rees-Davies (judge), politician and lawyer (died 1939)
• 8 May – Charles Taylor Wales rugby international (died 1915)
• 18 May – Lewis Davies (writer), novelist and historian (died 1951)
• 21 May – William Jones Williams, civil servant (died 1949)
• 11 June – Llewellyn Henry Gwynne, first suffragan Bishop of Khartoum (died 1957)^[30]
• 18 June – George Essex Evans, Australian poet of Welsh parentage (died 1909)^[31]
• 2 July – Billy Douglas, Wales international rugby player (died 1943)
• 7 August – Edward Perkins Alexander, Wales international rugby player (died 1931)
• 8 August – John Herbert Roberts, Baron Clwyd of Abergele, politician (died 1955)^[32]
• 17 August – Joseph Harry, minister, writer and teacher (died 1950)^[33]
• 29 August – Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, magistrate (died 1940)^[34]
• 10 September – Walter Rice Evans, Wales international rugby player (died 1909)
• 7 November – Rowley Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1949)
• probable – William Retlaw Williams, Welsh writer (died 1944)^[35]

Deaths

• 17 February – Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), poet, 60^[36]
• 19 February – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley, Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire, 62
• 28 February – David Williams (Alaw Goch), industrialist, 53^[37]
• 21 March – David Griffiths, missionary, 71^[38]
• 24 March – Thomas Powell, industrialist, 84^[39]
• 13 April – George Cornewall Lewis, statesman, 56^[40]
• May/June – David Bevan Jones (Dewi Elfed), Mormon leader, 55^[41]
• 15 July – Edward Pryce Owen, artist, 75^[42]
• 8 November – Joseph Hughes (Carn Ingli), poet, 60
• 13 December – Robert Saunderson, printer, 83^[43]
• 28 December – Thomas Bevan, Archdeacon of St David's, 63^[44]

See also

• 1863 in Ireland

Notes and References

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2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. News: Editorial. 17 January 2022. Welshman. 6 October 1865.
6. Book: Edwin Poole. The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. 1886. 378.
7. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
8. Book: Thomas John Hughes. The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr. South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices. 1887. 5.
9. Web site: Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx.. History of Parliament Online. 5 December 2021.
10. Web site: Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint. History of Parliament Online. 16 January 2022.
11. Web site: TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam.. History of Parliament Online. 18 January 2022.
12. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
13. Web site: Past Lord Lieutenants. Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire. 28 January 2022.
14. Book: Herbert Arthur Doubleday. George Cokayne. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant. St. Catherine Press, Limited. 1953. 423.
15. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
16. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
17. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
18. Book: Frederick Arthur Crisp. Joseph Jackson Howard. Visitation of England and Wales. 1898. 15.
19. Book: Nicholas Harris Nicolas. The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. 1857. 533.
20. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
21. Book: Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. 90.
22. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
23. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
24. Web site: Local Acts - 1863 . Office of Public Sector Information . 2008-05-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20080626001510/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/chron-tables/local/chron053.htm. 26 June 2008 . live.
25. Book: Ransom, P. J. G.. P. J. G. Ransom

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26. Web site: 'Watching the white wheat' and 'That hole below the nose': English ballads of a late-nineteenth-century Welsh jobbing-printer (2000). First published in Sigrid Rieuwerts & Helga Stein (eds), Bridging the Cultural Divide: Our Common Ballad Heritage (Hildersheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag, 2000), pp. 178-94. ISBN 3-487-11016-4.. E. Wyn James. Cardiff University. 13 March 2018.
27. Book: Travis L. Crosby. The Unknown David Lloyd George: A Statesman in Conflict. 30 January 2014. I.B.Tauris. 978-1-78076-485-6. 2.
28. Book: Arthur Machen. Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated). 17 November 2013. Delphi Classics. 978-1-909496-67-5. 4903.
29. Book: Dillwyn Miles. Sheriffs of the County of Pembroke, 1541-1974. 1976. 71.
30. Book: H̤̊asan Makkī Muh̤̊ammad Ah̤̊mad. Sudan, the Christian design: a study of the missionary factor in Sudan's cultural and political integration, 1843-1986. 1989. Islamic Foundation. 978-0-86037-193-9. 49.
31. Book: Edmund Morris Miller. Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935: A Descriptive and Bibliographical Survey of Books by Australian Authors. 1975. Sydney University Press. 978-0-424-06700-1. 178.
32. s2-ROBE-HER-1863. Roberts, John Herbert, Baron Clwyd of Abergele (1863-1955), politician. Evan David Jones. 14 March 2019.
33. s2-HARR-JOS-1863. Harry, Joseph (1863-1950), schoolmaster and Independent minister. Evan David Jones. 2001. 14 February 2022. yes.
34. Book: Who was who. 1920. A. & C. Black. 1338.
35. s2-WILL-JEF-1863. Williams, William Retlaw Jefferson (c.1863-1944), solicitor, genealogist, and historian. Evan David Jones. 2001. 14 February 2022. yes.
36. s-THOM-EBE-1802. Thomas, Ebenezer (Eben Fardd; 1802-1863), schoolmaster and poet. Thomas Parry. 7 August 2019. yes.
37. s-WILL-DAV-1809. Williams, David (Alaw Goch; 1809-1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr. Watkin William Price. 7 August 2019. yes.
38. s-GRIF-DAV-1792. Griffiths, David (1792-1863), missionary. Ebenezer Curig Davies. 7 August 2019. yes.
39. s1-POWE-THO-1779. Powell, Thomas (1779-1863), coal-owner. Walter Thomas Morgan. 7 August 2019. yes.
40. s-LEWI-COR-1806. Lewis, Sir George Cornewall (1806-1863), statesman. David Williams. 7 August 2019. yes.
41. s3-JONE-BEV-1807. Jones, David Bevan (1807-1863), minister (B, and Church of Christ and Latter Day Saints – Mormons). David Leslie Davies. 7 August 2019. yes.
42. s-OWEN-PRY-1788. Owen, Edward Pryce (1788-1863), cleric and artist. William Llewelyn Davies. 7 August 2019. yes.
43. s-SAUN-ROB-1780. Saunderson, Robert (1780-1863), printer and publisher. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 1959. 14 February 2022. yes.
44. "The Gentleman's Magazine (January–June 1864: obituaries, p261