1854 in Wales

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

1854
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
See also:
1854 in
The United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

New books

English language

Welsh language

  • John Edwards (Eos Glan Twrch)Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth, ar Amryfal Destynau
  • Samuel Evans (Gomerydd)Y Gomerydd[6]
  • Owen Wynne JonesFy 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

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References

  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.
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