1855 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1855 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
 * Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore
 * 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 – Robert Davies Pryce
 * 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

 * 25 February – The steamship Morna is wrecked off North Bishop Rock, with the loss of 21 lives.
 * 30 March – The Severn ferry from Chepstow sinks, and seven people drown.
 * Construction of the first section of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway begins.

New books

 * John Jones (Talhaiarn) – Gwaith Talhaiarn, vol. 1
 * William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Gweithiau Barddonol Gwilym Hiraethog
 * William Williams (Creuddynfab) – Y Barddoniadur

Music

 * Death of James Green of Bron y Garth, last of the traditional crwth players.

Births

 * 11 February – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player (died 1889)
 * 9 April – Jeremiah Jones, poet (died 1902)
 * 16 August – William David Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1918)
 * 11 December – David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, singer (died 1918)

Deaths

 * 21 January – Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), poet, 59
 * 22 January – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician, 74
 * 9 February – William Chambers, industrialist, 81
 * 28 June – FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 66
 * probable
 * Richard Jones, printer and publisher, ?68
 * William Edwards (Gwilym Callestr), poet