1855 in Wales

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

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1855 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins ^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce ^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh ^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley ^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet ^[14]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite ^{[15] [2]}

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell ^{[16] [17]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant ^{[18] [19]}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short ^{[20] [21] [19]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall ^{[22] [19] [23]}

Events

• 25 February – The steamship Morna is wrecked off North Bishop Rock, with the loss of 21 lives. ^[24]
• 30 March – The Severn ferry from Chepstow sinks, and seven people drown.
• Construction of the first section of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway begins.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Jones (Talhaiarn) – Gwaith Talhaiarn, vol. 1 ^[25]
• 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. ^[26]

Births

• 11 February – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player (died 1889)
• 9 April – Jeremiah Jones, poet (died 1902) ^[27]
• 16 August – William David Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1918)
• 11 December – David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, singer (died 1918) ^[28]

Deaths

• 21 January – Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), poet, 59 ^[29]
• 22 January – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician, 74 ^[30]
• 9 February – William Chambers, industrialist, 81
• 28 June – FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 66 ^[31]
• probable
  • Richard Jones, printer and publisher, ?68
  • William Edwards (Gwilym Callestr), poet ^[32]

See also

• 1855 in Ireland

References

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2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. "Editorial". Welshman. 6 October 1865. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
6. 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.
7. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
8. "Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
9. "Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
10. "TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
11. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
12. Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.
13. "Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
14. Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
15. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
16. Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN   9780521563505.
17. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
18. Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.
19. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
20. Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1857). The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. p. 533.
21. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
22. Old Yorkshire, volume 3. 1882. p. 90.
23. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
24. Jay Robert Nash (18 May 1976). Darkest Hours. M. Evans. p. 683. ISBN   978-1-59077-526-4.
25. Brooks, Simon (2017). Why Wales never was: the failure of Welsh nationalism. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 161. ISBN   9781786830135.
26. Budkavlen. F. W. Unggrens bok tryckeri. 1952. p. 10.
27. Gerallt Jones (1959). "Jones (family), Cilie, Cardiganshire. A family of smiths, poets, musicians and preachers". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 22 January 2022.
28. Robert David Griffith (1959). "Davies, David Thomas Ffrangcon (1855-1918), singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 22 January 2022.
29. David Gwenallt Jones (1959). "Evans, Evan (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd; 1795-1855), cleric and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 22 January 2022.
30. Mandler, Peter. "Lewis, Sir Thomas Frankland". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16605.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
31. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Raglan, Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron"  . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
32. "Edwards, William (1790-1855)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales.