1863 in Wales

none September 2019 May 2020 1863 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1863 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1863 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of AngleseyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan WatkinsEditorial http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4353246/ART15 17 January 2022 Welshman 6 October 1865 29 November 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141129125341/http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4353246/ART15 deadEdwin 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 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward PryseThomas John Hughes The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices 1887 5 Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulphhttps://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872 Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx. History of Parliament Online 5 December 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronethttps://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874 Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint History of Parliament Online 16 January 2022 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbothttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/talbot-christopher-1803-1890 TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam. History of Parliament Online 18 January 2022 7 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240507032042/https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/talbot-christopher-1803-1890 dead Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron MostynEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanoverhttps://www.lordlieutenantofgwent.co.uk/history-duties/past-lord-lieutenants/ Past Lord Lieutenants Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire 28 January 2022 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley (until 19 February); Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley (from 21 April)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 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron OrmathwaiteJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115 Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305 Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred OllivantJoseph Jackson Howard Joseph Jackson Howard Frederick Arthur Crisp Visitation of England and Wales 6 https://archive.org/details/visitationofengl06howa/page/n28/mode/1up 1898 15 Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler ShortNicholas Harris Nicolas The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope John Murray 1857 533The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Connop ThirlwallOld Yorkshire, volume 3 1882 90 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95 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.http://www.opsi.gov.uk/chron-tables/local/chron053.htm 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 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)).Ransom P. J. G. P. J. G. Ransom Narrow Gauge Steam: its origins and world-wide development 1996 Oxford Publishing Co Sparkford 0-86093-533-7 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)http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/special-collections/subject-guides/welsh-ballads/watching-the-white-wheat '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 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)Travis L. Crosby The Unknown David Lloyd George: A Statesman in Conflict https://books.google.com/books?id=MIW9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 30 January 2014 I.B.Tauris 978-1-78076-485-6 2 3 March – Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947)Arthur Machen Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated) https://books.google.com/books?id=e90ZAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT4903 17 November 2013 Delphi Classics 978-1-909496-67-5 4903 16 March – Dan Beddoe, operatic tenor (died 1937) 25 March – Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant (died 1937)Dillwyn Miles Sheriffs of the County of Pembroke, 1541-1974 https://books.google.com/books?id=X70qAQAAMAAJ 1976 71 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)H̤̊asan Makkī Muh̤̊ammad Ah̤̊mad Sudan, the Christian design: a study of the missionary factor in Sudan's cultural and political integration, 1843-1986 https://books.google.com/books?id=b2ImAQAAIAAJ 1989 Islamic Foundation 978-0-86037-193-9 49 18 June – George Essex Evans, Australian poet of Welsh parentage (died 1909)Edmund Morris Miller Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935: A Descriptive and Bibliographical Survey of Books by Australian Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=DFAkAQAAIAAJ 1975 Sydney University Press 978-0-424-06700-1 178 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)s2-ROBE-HER-1863 Roberts, John Herbert, Baron Clwyd of Abergele (1863-1955), politician Evan David Jones 14 March 2019 17 August – Joseph Harry, minister, writer and teacher (died 1950)s2-HARR-JOS-1863 Harry, Joseph (1863-1950), schoolmaster and Independent minister Evan David Jones 2001 14 February 2022 yes 29 August – Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, magistrate (died 1940)Who was who https://books.google.com/books?id=CakLAQAAIAAJ 1920 A. & C. Black 1338 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)s2-WILL-JEF-1863 Williams, William Retlaw Jefferson (c.1863-1944), solicitor, genealogist, and historian Evan David Jones 2001 14 February 2022 yes Deaths 17 February – Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), poet, 60s-THOM-EBE-1802 Thomas, Ebenezer (Eben Fardd; 1802-1863), schoolmaster and poet Thomas Parry 7 August 2019 yes 19 February – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley, Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire, 62 28 February – David Williams (Alaw Goch), industrialist, 53s-WILL-DAV-1809 Williams, David (Alaw Goch; 1809-1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr Watkin William Price 7 August 2019 yes 21 March – David Griffiths, missionary, 71s-GRIF-DAV-1792 Griffiths, David (1792-1863), missionary Ebenezer Curig Davies 7 August 2019 yes 24 March – Thomas Powell, industrialist, 84s1-POWE-THO-1779 Powell, Thomas (1779-1863), coal-owner Walter Thomas Morgan 7 August 2019 yes 13 April – George Cornewall Lewis, statesman, 56s-LEWI-COR-1806 Lewis, Sir George Cornewall (1806-1863), statesman David Williams 7 August 2019 yes May/June – David Bevan Jones (Dewi Elfed), Mormon leader, 55s3-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 15 July – Edward Pryce Owen, artist, 75s-OWEN-PRY-1788 Owen, Edward Pryce (1788-1863), cleric and artist William Llewelyn Davies 7 August 2019 yes 8 November – Joseph Hughes (Carn Ingli), poet, 60 13 December – Robert Saunderson, printer, 83s-SAUN-ROB-1780 Saunderson, Robert (1780-1863), printer and publisher Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 14 February 2022 yes 28 December – Thomas Bevan, Archdeacon of St David's, 63"The Gentleman's Magazine (January–June 1864: obituaries, p261 See also 1863 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1863 in Europe Category:1860s in Wales