This article is about the particular significance of the year 1854 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
edit- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (until 29 April);[1] Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (from 17 May)[2][3][4][5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins[6][7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell (until 10 April);[9] Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (from 16 September)
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn (until 3 April);[13] Robert Davies Pryce (from 7 May)
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley[15]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[16]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[17][3]
Events
edit- 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.[26]
- 11 November — In Australia, Welsh-born John Basson Humffray is elected the first president of the Ballarat Reform League.
- unknown dates
- Betsi Cadwaladr volunteers to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War.[27][28]
- 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.[29]
- John Williams (Ab Ithel) becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal.[30]
Arts and literature
editNew books
editEnglish language
edit- Thomas Prichard — The Heroines of Welsh History[31]
- Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament
Welsh language
edit- John Edwards (Eos Glan Twrch) — Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth, ar Amryfal Destynau
- Samuel Evans (Gomerydd) — Y Gomerydd[32]
- Owen Wynne Jones — Fy Oriau Hamddenol
- William Thomas (Islwyn) — Barddoniaeth
Music
edit- David Richards — Y Blwch Cerddorol (collection of hymns and anthems)[33]
Births
edit- 1 January — Peter Morris, baseball player (died 1884 in the United States)
- 8 April — Robert Arthur Williams (Berw), clergyman and poet (died 1926)[34]
- 17 April — Sir John Eldon Bankes, judge (died 1946)[35]
- 30 April — William Critchlow Harris, Welsh-Canadian architect (died 1913)
- 10 July — John Lloyd Williams, botanist and composer (died 1945)
- 16 December — J. D. Rees, colonial administrator (died 1922)
Deaths
edit- 14 January — Charles Rodney Morgan, politician, 25[36]
- 3 April — Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85[37]
- 10 April — William Edward Powell, politician, 66[9]
- 29 April — Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician, 85[38]
- 24 May — John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39
- 12 November — Charles Kemble, actor, 79[39]
- 28 December — Rowland Williams, clergyman and writer, 75[40]
- 29 December — Joseph Tregelles Price, industrialist, 70[41]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Cates, William Leist Readwin (1878). . In Baynes, T. S. (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- ^ a b J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- ^ "Editorial". Welshman. 6 October 1865. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- ^ a b "Cardiganshire. Death of Colonel Powell". Welshman. 14 April 1854. p. 3. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- ^ "Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ "TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- ^ Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.
- ^ "Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
- ^ Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
- ^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
- ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
- ^ Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.
- ^ a b c Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
- ^ Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1857). The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. p. 533.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. p. 90.
- ^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Williams, John(Ab Ithel; 1811-1862), cleric and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (1959). "Williams, Robert Arthur (Berw; 1854-1926), cleric and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "Bankes, Sir John Eldon (1854-1946), judge". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Watkin William Price (1959). "Price, Joseph Tregelles (1784-1854), Quaker and ironmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2022.