1883 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1883 to Wales and its people.
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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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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[3]
- 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)[4]
- 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)[5]
- 12 June (in London) – Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, suffragette (died 1958)
- 8 August – Iesu Grist Price, son of William Price (died 1884)
- 13 September (in South Shields) – Percy Thomas, architect (died 1969)[6]
- 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)[7]
- date unknown – John Jones (Tydu), poet (died 1968)
Deaths
- 25 January – John Elias Davies, harpist, 35[8]
- 29 January
- John Owen (Owain Alaw), composer, 61
- Owen Gethin Jones, industrialist and poet, 66[9]
- 28 May – Hugh Jones, Principal of Llangollen Baptist College, 51
- 18 August – Roger Vaughan, Benedictine monk and priest, Archbishop of Sydney, 49[10]
- 5 November – James Walton, Yorkshire-born textile inventor and industrialist, 80
- 8 November – William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet, 81[11]
- 25 December – Townshend Mainwaring, politician, 76[12]
- date unknown – John Batchelor, businessman and politician, 63
References
- "Mumbles Lifeboat Disasters". National Coastwatch. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- Guy, John (1984). "Saving Flat Holm's Cholera Hospital". Exploring Local History (8): 244–246.
- "Winners of the Chair | National Eisteddfod". eisteddfod.wales. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- Robert Evans; Maggie Humphreys (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-4411-3796-8.
- Gale Group (July 2002). Contemporary Authors. Cengage Gale. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-7876-4595-3.
- RIBA Journal. Royal Institute of British Architects. 1984. p. 31.
- Evan David Jones. "Rees, Sir James Frederick (1883-1967), Principal of the University College at Cardiff". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- Robert David Griffith. "Davies, John Elias (Telynor y Gogledd; 1847-1883), harpist and accompanist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Owen Gethin (Gethin; 1816-1883), local historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- P. Cunich, The death of Archbishop Roger Bede Vaughan, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 29 (2008), 7-22.
- Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1914). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 186.
- "Death of Mr Townshend Mainwaring". The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality. 29 December 1883. p. 5. hdl:10107/4518403.
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