1883 in Wales

none June 2017 February 2020 1883 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1883 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1883 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – ClwydfarddGRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894) s-GRIF-DAV-1800 Daniel Williams National Library of Wales 15 December 2019 Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen StanleyEdward 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 – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron GlanuskEdwin 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 – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron PenrhynEdward 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 PryseDeath of Colonel Pryse http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3344911/3344915/21 27 February 2018 Cambrian News 1 June 1888 4 Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel TalbotCampbell Thomas Methuen C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890 Morgannwg 2000 44 66–104 http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewobject/llgc-id:1174908/article/000041850 17 May 2014 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 – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of BeaufortJames Henry Clark History of Monmouthshire County Observer 1869 375 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powiss-POWY-HER-1674 Herbert family (earls of Powis) Evan David Jones 1959 27 February 2022 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite 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 266 Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis (from 25 April) Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua HughesThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307s-JONE-BAS-1822 Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897) 21 April 2011 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.http://www.nciwormshead.org.uk/miscellany/articles/576-mumbles-lifeboat-disasters Mumbles Lifeboat Disasters National Coastwatch 5 April 2019 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.Guy John Saving Flat Holm's Cholera Hospital Exploring Local History 8 244–246 1984 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 winnerWinners of the Chair National Eisteddfod https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair 2021-02-27 eisteddfod.wales 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead Crown – Anna Walter Thomas New books Rhoda Broughton – Belinda Amy Dillwyn – A Burglary; or Unconscious Influence John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) – Adgof Uwch Anghof Robert Owen – Pilgrimage to Rome Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) – Gwaith Barddonol Trebor Mai (posthumously published) Music Treorchy Male Voice Choir formed. Sport Football – Wrexham win the Welsh Cup for the second time in its six-year history. Rugby union Wales take part in the inaugural Home Nations Championship First home international game played, hosted at St. Helen's Rugby and Cricket Ground in Swansea. First Wales match against Scotland. Wales lose by three goals to one. 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)Robert Evans Maggie Humphreys Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=xZCvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA210 1 January 1997 Bloomsbury Publishing 978-1-4411-3796-8 210 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)Gale Group Contemporary Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=jiBdWWaBzJUC July 2002 Cengage Gale 978-0-7876-4595-3 459 12 June (in London) – Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, suffragette (died 1958)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 8 August – Iesu Grist Price, son of William Price (died 1884) 13 September (in South Shields) – Percy Thomas, architect (died 1969)RIBA Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=67tUAAAAMAAJ 1984 Royal Institute of British Architects 31 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)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 date unknown – John Jones (Tydu), poet (died 1968) Deaths 25 January – John Elias Davies, harpist, 35s-DAVI-ELI-1847 Davies, John Elias (Telynor y Gogledd; 1847-1883), harpist and accompanist Robert David Griffith National Library of Wales 7 February 2021 29 January John Owen (Owain Alaw), composer, 61 Owen Gethin Jones, industrialist and poet, 66s-JONE-GET-1816 Jones, Owen Gethin (Gethin; 1816-1883), local historian Robert Thomas Jenkins National Library of Wales 7 February 2021 May – John Batchelor, businessman and politician, 63https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3515749/3515752/37/John%20d The Late Mr John Batchelor South Wales Daily News 31 May 1883 National Library of Wales 3 March 2022 28 May – Hugh Jones, Principal of Llangollen Baptist College, 51 18 August – Roger Vaughan, Benedictine monk and priest, Archbishop of Sydney, 49P. Cunich, The death of Archbishop Roger Bede Vaughan, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 29 (2008), 7-22. 5 November – James Walton, Yorkshire-born textile inventor and industrialist, 80 8 November – William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet, 81Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=FlwJAAAAIAAJ 1914 The Society 186 25 December – Townshend Mainwaring, politician, 76Death of Mr Townshend Mainwaring The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality 29 December 1883 5 10107/4518403 See also 1883 in Ireland References Wales Category:1883 in Europe Category:1880s in Wales