1854 in Wales

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

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (until 29 April); Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (from 17 May)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
 * Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell (until 10 April); Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (from 16 September)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
 * Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
 * Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
 * Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn (until 3 April); Robert Davies Pryce (from 7 May)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
 * Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite


 * Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
 * Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

Events

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * John Williams (Ab Ithel) becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal.

English language

 * Thomas Prichard — The Heroines of Welsh History
 * Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament

Welsh language

 * 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
 * William Thomas (Islwyn) — Barddoniaeth

Music

 * David Richards — Y Blwch Cerddorol (collection of hymns and anthems)

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)
 * 16 December — J. D. Rees, colonial administrator (died 1922)

Deaths

 * 14 January — Charles Rodney Morgan, politician, 25
 * 3 April — Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85
 * 10 April — William Edward Powell, politician, 66
 * 29 April — Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician, 85
 * 24 May — John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39
 * 12 November — Charles Kemble, actor, 79
 * 28 December — Rowland Williams, clergyman and writer, 75
 * 29 December — Joseph Tregelles Price, industrialist, 70