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1854 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
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Decades:
  
1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

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

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
  • Princess of Wales – vacant

    • Events

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • John Williams (Ab Ithel) becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal.
  • A penny newspaper, the Herald Cymraeg, is founded at Caernarfon, with James Evans as editor.

    • New books

  • 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
  • Thomas Prichard — The Heroines of Welsh History
  • William Thomas (Islwyn) — Barddoniaeth
  • Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament

    • Music

  • Y Blwch Cerddorol (collection of hymns and anthems)

    • Births

  • 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
  • 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

    • References

    1854 in Wales Wikipedia
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