1854 in Wales

1854 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*October 31 - David Davies (Dai'r Cantwr) receives a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.
*November 5 - At the Battle of Inkerman, Hugh Rowlands carries out the actions that lead to his becoming the first Welshman to win the Victoria Cross.
*November 11 - In Australia, Welsh-born John Basson Humffray is elected the first president of the Ballarat Reform League.
*Beti Cadwaladr leaves home to nurse in the Crimean War.
*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

*April 8 - Robert Arthur Williams (Berw), clergyman and poet (died 1926)
*April 17 - Sir John Eldon Bankes, judge (died 1946)
*July 10 - John Lloyd Williams, botanist and composer (died 1945)

Deaths

*April 3 - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85
*April 29 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician,85
*May 24 - John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39


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