1855 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1855 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1855 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

25 February – The steamship Morna is wrecked off North Bishop Rock, with the loss of 21 lives.[1]
30 March – The Severn ferry from Chepstow sinks, and seven people drown.
Construction of the first section of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway begins.

11 February – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player (died 1889)
9 April – Jeremiah Jones, poet (died 1902)
16 August – William David Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1918)
11 December – David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, singer (died 1918)

21 January – Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), poet, 59
22 January – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician, 74
9 February – William Chambers, industrialist, 81
28 June – FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 66
probable
- Richard Jones, printer and publisher, ?68
- William Edwards (Gwilym Callestr), poet[3]

Jay Robert Nash (18 May 1976). Darkest Hours. M. Evans. p. 683. ISBN 978-1-59077-526-4.
Budkavlen. F. W. Unggrens bok tryckeri. 1952. p. 10.
Welsh Biography Online

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