1854 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1854 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
• 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.^[1][2]
• 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.

Arts and literature

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

1. Williams, Jane, ed. (1857). The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse, Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladr (PDF). London: Hurst & Blackett. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
2. Baskerville, Eirionedd A. "Elizabeth Cadwaladyr". Women in Uniform. The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved 2014-06-10.