1854 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1854 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – vacant
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.[1]
- 11 November — In Australia, Welsh-born John Basson Humffray is elected the first president of the Ballarat Reform League.
- Betsi Cadwaladr volunteers to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War.[2][3]
- 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.[4]
- John Williams (Ab Ithel) becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal.
Arts and literature
English language
- Thomas Prichard — The Heroines of Welsh History[5]
- 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[6]
- Owen Wynne Jones — Fy Oriau Hamddenol
- William Thomas (Islwyn) — Barddoniaeth
Music
- David Richards — Y Blwch Cerddorol (collection of hymns and anthems)[7]
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)
- 22 September — John Fox Tallis, mining engineer (died 1925)
- 16 December — J. D. Rees, colonial administrator (died 1922)
Deaths
- 14 January — Charles Rodney Morgan, politician, 25[8]
- 3 April — Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85[9]
- 10 April — William Edward Powell, politician, 66
- 29 April — Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician, 85[10]
- 24 May — John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39
- 12 November — Charles Kemble, actor, 79[11]
- 28 December — Rowland Williams, clergyman and writer, 75[12]
References
- Wilkins, Philip A. (22 May 2012). The History of the Victoria Cross: Being an account of the 520 acts of bravery for which the decoration has been awarded and portraits of 392 recipients. Andrews UK Limited. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-78151-673-7.
- Williams, Jane, ed. (1857). The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse, Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladr (PDF). London: Hurst & Blackett. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- Baskerville, Eirionedd A. "Elizabeth Cadwaladyr". Women in Uniform. The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- Eisteddfod genedlaethol Cymru (1884). Transactions (Cofnodion a chyfansoddiadau). p. 229.
- Neil Evans (17 February 2016). Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-134-78661-9.
- Walter Davies (1868). English works of the Rev. Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain). Spurrell. p. 210.
- Robert Evans; Maggie Humphreys (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 282. ISBN 978-1-4411-3796-8.
- Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan family, of Tredegar Park". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- William Llewelyn Davies. "Mostyn family of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- Emyr Gwynne Jones. "Paget family (later marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen, Anglesey". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- Cecil John Layton Price. "Kemble, Charles (1775-1854), actor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Williams, Rowland (1779-1854), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
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