1883 in Wales explained
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1883 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 27 January – In the same storm, the James Gray is wrecked on Tusker Rocks, Porthcawl, and the Agnes Jack off Port Eynon. The Mumbles lifeboat puts out, and 5 of its crew are drowned in the rescue attempt, in which Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright assist.[18]
- 16 February – Six million tons of rock collapse at the Welsh Slate Company's underground quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog.
- 1 February – Five miners are killed in an accident at the Lewis Merthyr Colliery.
- 25 June – Six miners are killed in an accident at the New Duffryn Colliery, Rhymney.
- July – The steamship Rishanglys leaves three seamen, who are believed to be suffering from cholera, on the island of Flat Holm; one of them subsequently dies.[19]
- 21 August – Five miners are killed in an accident at the Gelli Colliery, Gelli, Glamorgan.
- 24 October – Cardiff University opens (under the name of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire).
- 31 October – 18 people are drowned when the German barque Alhambra sinks off Holyhead.
- 13 November – Merthyr Tydfil-born Samuel Griffith becomes Premier of Queensland for the first time.
- c. November? – Closure of Point of Ayr lighthouse.
- Peak year for zinc production in Wales.
- Penydarren Ironworks closes completely.
- Welsh-Canadian artist Robert Harris is commissioned to paint the Meeting of the Delegates of British North America.
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Cardiff
- Chair – No winner[20]
- Crown – Anna Walter Thomas
New books
Music
Sport
Births
- 6 January (in Shirehampton) – Harry Uzzell, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1960)
- 23 March – William Evans, Wales dual code international rugby player (died 1946)
- 30 April – David John de Lloyd, composer (died 1948)[21]
- 7 May – Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, newspaper magnate (died 1968)
- 12 May (in Glasgow) – James Walker, MP for Newport 1929–31 (died 1945)
- 28 May (in Gayton) – Clough Williams-Ellis, architect (died 1978)[22]
- 12 June (in London) – Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, suffragette (died 1958)[23]
- 8 August – Iesu Grist Price, son of William Price (died 1884)
- 13 September (in South Shields) – Percy Thomas, architect (died 1969)[24]
- 14 October – Dick Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
- 23 November – James 'Tuan' Jones, Wales and British Lion rugby player (died 1964)
- 13 December – Sir Frederick Rees, historian and academic (died 1967)[25]
- date unknown – John Jones (Tydu), poet (died 1968)
Deaths
- 25 January – John Elias Davies, harpist, 35[26]
- May – John Batchelor, businessman and politician, 63[28]
- 28 May – Hugh Jones, Principal of Llangollen Baptist College, 51
- 18 August – Roger Vaughan, Benedictine monk and priest, Archbishop of Sydney, 49[29]
- 5 November – James Walton, Yorkshire-born textile inventor and industrialist, 80
- 8 November – William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet, 81[30]
- 25 December – Townshend Mainwaring, politician, 76[31]
See also
Notes and References
- GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894). s-GRIF-DAV-1800. Daniel Williams. National Library of Wales. 15 December 2019.
- Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
- 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.
- Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
- Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
- 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.
- Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
- News: Death of Colonel Pryse. 27 February 2018. Cambrian News. 1 June 1888. 4.
- Campbell. Thomas Methuen. C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890. Morgannwg. 2000. 44. 66–104. 17 May 2014.
- Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
- Book: James Henry Clark. History of Monmouthshire. County Observer. 1869. 375.
- s-POWY-HER-1674. Herbert family (earls of Powis). Evan David Jones. 1959. 27 February 2022.
- Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
- Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 266.
- Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
- Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
- s-JONE-BAS-1822 . Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897) . 21 April 2011.
- Web site: Mumbles Lifeboat Disasters. National Coastwatch. 5 April 2019.
- Guy. John. Saving Flat Holm's Cholera Hospital. Exploring Local History. 8. 244–246. 1984.
- Web site: Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod. 2021-02-27. eisteddfod.wales.
- Book: Robert Evans. Maggie Humphreys. Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. 1 January 1997. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-4411-3796-8. 210.
- Book: Gale Group. Contemporary Authors. July 2002. Cengage Gale. 978-0-7876-4595-3. 459.
- s12-THOM-HAI-1883. Thomas, Margaret Haig, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (1883-1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman. Angela V. John. 11 June 2021. 3 March 2022.
- Book: RIBA Journal. 1984. Royal Institute of British Architects. 31.
- s2-REES-FRE-1883. Rees, Sir James Frederick (1883-1967), Principal of the University College at Cardiff. Evan David Jones. 2001. National Library of Wales. 7 February 2021.
- s-DAVI-ELI-1847. Davies, John Elias (Telynor y Gogledd; 1847-1883), harpist and accompanist. Robert David Griffith. National Library of Wales. 7 February 2021.
- s-JONE-GET-1816. Jones, Owen Gethin (Gethin; 1816-1883), local historian. Robert Thomas Jenkins. National Library of Wales. 7 February 2021.
- Web site: The Late Mr John Batchelor. South Wales Daily News. 31 May 1883. National Library of Wales. 3 March 2022.
- P. Cunich, The death of Archbishop Roger Bede Vaughan, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 29 (2008), 7-22.
- Book: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. 1914. The Society. 186.
- News: Death of Mr Townshend Mainwaring . The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality . 29 December 1883. 5. 10107/4518403.