1854 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1854 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (until 29 April);[1] Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (from 17 May)[2][3][4][5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins[6][7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â William Edward Powell (until 10 April);[9] Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (from 16 September)
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Robert Myddelton Biddulph[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn (until 3 April);[13] Robert Davies Pryce (from 7 May)
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Capel Hanbury Leigh[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley[15]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[16]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[17][3]
Events
- Late August â Third cholera pandemic in Cardiff.
- 31 October â David Davies (Dai'r Cantwr) receives a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.
- 5 November â At the Battle of Inkerman, Hugh Rowlands carries out the actions that lead to his becoming the first Welshman to win the Victoria Cross.[26]
- 11 November â In Australia, Welsh-born John Basson Humffray is elected the first president of the Ballarat Reform League.
- unknown dates
- Thorne Island fortification completed.
- Betsi Cadwaladr volunteers to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War.[27][28]
- 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.[29]
- John Williams (Ab Ithel) becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal.[30]
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- Thomas Prichard â The Heroines of Welsh History[31]
- Samuel Prideaux Tregelles â Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament
Welsh language
- John Edwards (Eos Glan Twrch) â Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth, ar Amryfal Destynau
- Samuel Evans (Gomerydd) â Y Gomerydd[32]
- Owen Wynne Jones â Fy Oriau Hamddenol
- William Thomas (Islwyn) â Barddoniaeth
Music
- David Richards â Y Blwch Cerddorol (collection of hymns and anthems)[33]
Births
- 1 January â Peter Morris, baseball player (died 1884 in the United States)
- 8 April â Robert Arthur Williams (Berw), clergyman and poet (died 1926)[34]
- 17 April â Sir John Eldon Bankes, judge (died 1946)[35]
- 30 April â William Critchlow Harris, Welsh-Canadian architect (died 1913)
- 10 July â John Lloyd Williams, botanist and composer (died 1945)
- 16 December â J. D. Rees, colonial administrator (died 1922)
Deaths
- 14 January â Charles Rodney Morgan, politician, 25[36]
- 3 April â Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85[37]
- 10 April â William Edward Powell, politician, 66[9]
- 29 April â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician, 85[38]
- 24 May â John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39
- 12 November â Charles Kemble, actor, 79[39]
- 28 December â Rowland Williams, clergyman and writer, 75[40]
- 29 December â Joseph Tregelles Price, industrialist, 70[41]