# 1883 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1883 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd
* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
* 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 Talbot
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis (from 25 April)
* Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes
* Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones

## 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.
* 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.
* 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
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* date unknown – John Jones (Tydu), poet (died 1968)

## Deaths

* 25 January – John Elias Davies, harpist, 35
* 29 January
** John Owen (Owain Alaw), composer, 61
** Owen Gethin Jones, industrialist and poet, 66
* May – John Batchelor, businessman and politician, 63
* 28 May – Hugh Jones, Principal of Llangollen Baptist College, 51
* 18 August – Roger Vaughan, Benedictine monk and priest, Archbishop of Sydney, 49
* 5 November – James Walton, Yorkshire-born textile inventor and industrialist, 80
* 8 November – William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet, 81
* 25 December – Townshend Mainwaring, politician, 76