1854 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
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.

Incumbent[]

Monarch - Victoria

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[]

New books[]

English language[]

— The Heroines of Welsh History^[5]
Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament

Welsh language[]

— Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth, ar Amryfal Destynau
— 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 — , 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.

[1] 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.

[2] Williams, Jane, ed. (1857). The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse, Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladr (PDF). London: Hurst & Blackett. Retrieved 10 June 2014.

[3] Baskerville, Eirionedd A. "Elizabeth Cadwaladyr". Women in Uniform. The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved 10 June 2014.

[4] Eisteddfod genedlaethol Cymru (1884). Transactions (Cofnodion a chyfansoddiadau). p. 229.

[5] 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.

[6] Walter Davies (1868). English works of the Rev. Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain). Spurrell. p. 210.

[7] 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.

[8] Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan family, of Tredegar Park". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.

[9] William Llewelyn Davies. "Mostyn family of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.

[10] 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.

[11] Cecil John Layton Price. "Kemble, Charles (1775-1854), actor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.

[12] Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Williams, Rowland (1779-1854), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.

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