:1854 in Wales

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• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (until 29 April);{{cite EB9 |last=Cates |first=William Leist Readwin |wstitle=Henry William Paget, First Marquis of Anglesey |volume=2}} Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (from 17 May){{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins{{cite news|title=Editorial|url=http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4353246/ART15|access-date=17 January 2022|newspaper=Welshman|date=6 October 1865}}{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell (until 10 April);{{cite news|title=Cardiganshire. Death of Colonel Powell.|url=http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4348130/4348133/23|access-date=4 October 2017|agency=Welshman|date=14 April 1854|page=3}} Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (from 16 September)
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872|title=Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=5 December 2021}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874|title=Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=16 January 2022}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/talbot-christopher-1803-1890|title=TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=18 January 2022}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn (until 3 April);{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}} Robert Davies Pryce (from 7 May)
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh{{cite book|author=Amy Audrey Locke|title=The Hanbury Family|publisher=Arthur L. Humphreys|year=1916|page=147}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/hanbury-tracy-charles-1778-1858|title=Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont.| publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date = 2 July 2013}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet{{cite web |last1=Thorne |first1=R.G. |title=John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 |website=History of Parliament |access-date=27 March 2020}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=305}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant{{cite book|author1=Frederick Arthur Crisp|author2=Joseph Jackson Howard|title=Visitation of England and Wales|year=1898|page=15}}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short{{cite book|author=Nicholas Harris Nicolas|title=The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope|publisher=John Murray|year=1857|page=533}}{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall{{cite book|title=Old Yorkshire, volume 3|year=1882|page=90}}{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=307}}{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}

• 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.{{cite book|first=Philip A.|last=Wilkins|title=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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VIK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT34|date=22 May 2012|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=978-1-78151-673-7|pages=34}}
• 11 November — In Australia, Welsh-born John Basson Humffray is elected the first president of the Ballarat Reform League.
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• Betsi Cadwaladr volunteers to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War.{{cite book|editor=Williams, Jane|editor-link=Jane Williams (Ysgafell)|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}}{{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}}
• 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.{{cite book|author=Eisteddfod genedlaethol Cymru|title=Transactions (Cofnodion a chyfansoddiadau).|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=71IFAAAAQAAJ|year=1884|page=229}}
• John Williams (Ab Ithel) becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal.{{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-JOH-1811|title=Williams, John(Ab Ithel; 1811-1862), cleric and antiquary|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|year=1959|access-date=21 January 2022}}

• Thomas Prichard — The Heroines of Welsh History{{cite book|author=Neil Evans|title=Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VrmXCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|date=17 February 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-78661-9|pages=84}}
• Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament

• John Edwards (Eos Glan Twrch) — Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth, ar Amryfal Destynau
• Samuel Evans (Gomerydd) — Y Gomerydd{{cite book|author=Walter Davies|title=English works of the Rev. Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C38NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA210|year=1868|publisher=Spurrell|pages=210}}
• Owen Wynne Jones — Fy Oriau Hamddenol
• William Thomas (Islwyn) — Barddoniaeth

• David Richards — Y Blwch Cerddorol (collection of hymns and anthems){{cite book|author1=Robert Evans|author2=Maggie Humphreys|title=Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xZCvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA282|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4411-3796-8|pages=282}}

• 1 January — Peter Morris, baseball player (died 1884 in the United States)
• 8 April — Robert Arthur Williams (Berw), clergyman and poet (died 1926){{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-ART-1854|title=Williams, Robert Arthur (Berw; 1854-1926), cleric and poet|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|year=1959|access-date=21 January 2022}}
• 17 April — Sir John Eldon Bankes, judge (died 1946){{cite DWB|id=s2-BANK-ELD-1854|title=Bankes, Sir John Eldon (1854-1946), judge|access-date=17 June 2014}}
• 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)

• 14 January — Charles Rodney Morgan, politician, 25{{cite DWB|id=s-MORG-TRE-1384|title=Morgan family, of Tredegar Park|author=Walter Thomas Morgan|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=28 March 2019}}
• 3 April — Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85{{cite DWB|id=s-MOST-MOS-1301|title=Mostyn family of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire|author=William Llewelyn Davies|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=28 March 2019}}
• 10 April — William Edward Powell, politician, 66
• 29 April — Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician, 85{{cite DWB|id=s-PAGE-PLA-1737|title=Paget family (later marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen, Anglesey|author=Emyr Gwynne Jones|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=28 March 2019}}
• 24 May — John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39
• 12 November — Charles Kemble, actor, 79{{cite DWB|id=s-KEMB-CHA-1775|title=Kemble, Charles (1775-1854), actor|author=Cecil John Layton Price|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=28 March 2019}}
• 28 December — Rowland Williams, clergyman and writer, 75{{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-ROW-1779|title=Williams, Rowland (1779-1854), cleric|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=28 March 2019}}
• 29 December — Joseph Tregelles Price, industrialist, 70{{cite DWB|id=s-PRIC-TRE-1784|title=Price, Joseph Tregelles (1784-1854), Quaker and ironmaster|author=Watkin William Price|year=1959|access-date=21 January 2022}}

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