1855 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1855 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore
• 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 – Robert Davies Pryce
• 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

• 25 February – The steamship Morna is wrecked off North Bishop Rock, with the loss of 21 lives.
• 30 March – The Severn ferry from Chepstow sinks, and seven people drown.
• Construction of the first section of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway begins.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Jones (Talhaiarn) – Gwaith Talhaiarn, vol. 1
• William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Gweithiau Barddonol Gwilym Hiraethog
• William Williams (Creuddynfab) – Y Barddoniadur

Music

• Death of James Green of Bron y Garth, last of the traditional crwth players.

Births

• 11 February – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player (died 1889)
• 9 April – Jeremiah Jones, poet (died 1902)
• 16 August – William David Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1918)
• 11 December – David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, singer (died 1918)

Deaths

• 21 January – Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), poet, 59
• 22 January – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician, 74
• 9 February – William Chambers, industrialist, 81
• 10 February – John Henry Vivian, industrialist, 69
• 28 June – FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 66
• probable
• Richard Jones, printer and publisher, ?68
• William Edwards (Gwilym Callestr), poet

See also

• 1855 in Ireland

References