“1854 in Wales”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

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

Events

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.

Betsi Cadwaladr volunteers to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War.^[1]^[2]

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.

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

A penny newspaper, the Herald Cymraeg, is founded at Caernarfon, with James Evans as editor.

Arts and literature

New books

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

Thomas Prichard — The Heroines of Welsh History

William Thomas (Islwyn) — Barddoniaeth

Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament

Music

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)

22 September — John Fox Tallis, mining engineer (died 1925)

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

References

1. ^{{cite book|editor=Williams, Jane|title=The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse, Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladr|location=London|publisher=Hurst & Blackett|year=1857|url=http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/600015971.pdf|accessdate=2014-06-10}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Elizabeth Cadwaladyr|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/womeninuniform/crimea_profile.htm|first=Eirionedd A|last=Baskerville|work=Women in Uniform|publisher=The National Archives (United Kingdom)|accessdate=2014-06-10}}

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