1854 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1854 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (until 29 April); Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (from 17 May)
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell (until 10 April); Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (from 16 September)
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn (until 3 April); Robert Davies Pryce (from 7 May)
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

Events

• Late August — Third cholera pandemic in Cardiff.
• 31 October — David Davies (Dai'r Cantwr) receives a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.
• 5 November — At the Battle of Inkerman, Hugh Rowlands carries out the actions that lead to his becoming the first Welshman to win the Victoria Cross.
• 11 November — In Australia, Welsh-born John Basson Humffray is elected the first president of the Ballarat Reform League.
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• Thorne Island fortification completed.
• Betsi Cadwaladr volunteers to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War.
• Love Jones-Parry is High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire.
• The Telegraphic Despatch is published in Swansea, the first newspaper in Wales to come out more than once a week.
• A penny newspaper, the Herald Cymraeg, is founded at Caernarfon, with James Evans as editor.
• John Williams (Ab Ithel) becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Thomas Prichard — The Heroines of Welsh History
• Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament

Welsh language

• John Edwards (Eos Glan Twrch) — Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth, ar Amryfal Destynau
• Samuel Evans (Gomerydd) — Y Gomerydd
• Owen Wynne Jones — Fy Oriau Hamddenol
• William Thomas (Islwyn) — Barddoniaeth

Music

• David Richards — Y Blwch Cerddorol (collection of hymns and anthems)

Births

• 1 January — Peter Morris, baseball player (died 1884 in the United States)
• 8 April — Robert Arthur Williams (Berw), clergyman and poet (died 1926)
• 17 April — Sir John Eldon Bankes, judge (died 1946)
• 30 April — William Critchlow Harris, Welsh-Canadian architect (died 1913)
• 10 July — John Lloyd Williams, botanist and composer (died 1945)
• 16 December — J. D. Rees, colonial administrator (died 1922)

Deaths

• 14 January — Charles Rodney Morgan, politician, 25
• 3 April — Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85
• 10 April — William Edward Powell, politician, 66
• 29 April — Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician, 85
• 24 May — John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39
• 12 November — Charles Kemble, actor, 79
• 28 December — Rowland Williams, clergyman and writer, 75
• 29 December — Joseph Tregelles Price, industrialist, 70

See also

• 1854 in Ireland

References