- 1850s in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1850 - 1859 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
*
Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"Events
*1850
*1851
*1852
*1853
*1854
*1855
*1856
*1857
*1858
*1859Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales
*1853 - "Islwyn" wins the crown at theAbergavenny eisteddfod.
*1858 - "Great Eisteddfod" atLlangollen ; early appearance of Gorsedd ceremony.New books
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Anne Beale - "Gladys of Harlech" (1858)
*John Blackwell (Alun) - "Ceinion Alun" (1851;posthumously published)
*B. B. Davies - "The History of Wales" (1853)
*Samuel Evans (Gomerydd) - "Y Gomerydd" (1854)
*John Ceiriog Hughes - "Gohebiaethau Syr Meurig Crynswth" (vol. 1) (1856)
*Aneurin Jones - "Tafol y Beirdd"(1852)
**John Jones (Talhaiarn) - "Gwaith Talhaiarn", vol. 1 (1855)
*Owen Wynne Jones
**"Fy Oriau Hamddenol" (1854)
**"Dafydd Llwyd" (1857)
**"Lleucu Llwyd" (1858)
*Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) - "Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri" (1857)
*William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)
**"Aelwyd F'Ewythr Robert" (1852)
**"Gweithiau Barddonol Gwilym Hiraethog" (1855)
*William Thomas (Islwyn) - "Barddoniaeth" (1854)
*William Thomas (Gwilym Marles) - "Prydyddiaeth" (1859)
*Morris Williams (Nicander) - "Y Psalmwyr" (1850)
*William Williams (Creuddynfab) - "Y Barddoniadur" (1855)Music
*"Y Blwch Cerddorol" (collection of hymns and anthems) (1854)
*Thomas Jones (Gogrynwr) - "Gweddi Habacuc" (cantata) (1851)
*J. Ambrose Lloyd - "Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear" (1852)
*Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) - "Ystorm Tiberias" (oratorio) (1852)*January
1856 - The Welsh national anthem, "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau ", is composed byJames James with lyrics by his fatherEvan James .Births
*1850
**January 4 -Griffith J. Griffith , industrialist (died1919 )
**April 16 -Sidney Gilchrist Thomas , inventor (died1885 )
*1851
**March 24 -Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (d.1906 )
**July 8 - SirArthur Evans , archaeologist (d.1941 )
**December 27 -Percy Gilchrist , industrialist
**"date unknown" -Elizabeth Phillips Hughes , promoter of women's education (died1925 )
*1852
**March 20 -John Gwenogvryn Evans , palaeographer (died 1930)
**April 26 -William Eilir Evans , journalist (died 1910)
**April 28 -Sir Francis Edwards, 1st Baronet , Liberal politician (died 1927)
**May 11 - SirDavid Saunders Davies , MP (died 1934)
**November 25 - SirEvan Vincent Evans , Eisteddfod supporter (died 1934)
**December -Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), writer (died 1943)
*1855
**"date unknown" -Jeremiah Jones , poet (died1902 )
*1856
**March 26 -David Alfred Thomas , politician (died1918 )
*1858
**January 28 -Edgeworth David , explorer (died1934 )
**December 28 -Josiah Towyn Jones , politician
*1859
**February 16 -T. E. Ellis , politician (died1899 )
**July 17 -Ernest Rhys , writer (died1946 )Deaths
*1850
**September 2 - Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, politician (born1775 )
*1851
**April 6 -William Morgan Kinsey , travel writer (born1788 )
**June 30 - Thomas Phillips, founder ofLlandovery College (born1760 )
*1852
**February 23 -Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd) , minister and journalist, 31
**May 2 -John Jones (Ioan Tegid) , poet (born1792 )
**November 26 -John Josiah Guest , engineer, entrepreneur and politician, 77
*1853
**"date unknown" - William Roberts, preacher (b.1809 )
*1854
**April 3 -Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn , politician (born1768 )
**April 29 -Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey , soldier and politician (born 1768)
*1855
**June 28 -FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (born1788 )
**"date unknown"
**Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet , industrialist
**John Henry Vivian , industrialist (born1785 )
*1857
**February 10 - David Thompson, explorer (born to Welsh parents1770 )
**August 12 -William Daniel Conybeare , dean of Llandaff (born1787 )
**August 16 -John Jones (Talysarn) , leading non-conformist minister (born1796 )
*1858
**November 17 -Robert Owen , founder of the Co-operative Society (born1771 )
**November 20 -Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet , ironmaster (born1783 )
**December 18 -John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury , nephew ofHester Thrale (born1793 )
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