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.

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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[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.