1850s in Wales

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Other events of the decade

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1850 - 1859 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

Anne Beale - Gladys of Harlech (1858)
John Blackwell (Alun) - Ceinion Alun (1851;posthumously published)
B. B. Davies - The History of Wales (1853)
Samuel Evans (Gomerydd) - Y Gomerydd (1854)
John Ceiriog Hughes - Gohebiaethau Syr Meurig Crynswth (vol. 1) (1856)
Aneurin Jones - Tafol y Beirdd(1852)
- John Jones (Talhaiarn) - Gwaith Talhaiarn, vol. 1 (1855)
Owen Wynne Jones
- Fy Oriau Hamddenol (1854)
- Dafydd Llwyd (1857)
- Lleucu Llwyd (1858)
Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) - Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri (1857)
William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)
- Aelwyd F'Ewythr Robert (1852)
- Gweithiau Barddonol Gwilym Hiraethog (1855)
William Thomas (Islwyn) - Barddoniaeth (1854)
William Thomas (Gwilym Marles) - Prydyddiaeth (1859)
Morris Williams (Nicander) - Y Psalmwyr (1850)
William Williams (Creuddynfab) - Y Barddoniadur (1855)

January 1856 - The Welsh national anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, is composed by James James with lyrics by his father Evan James.

1850
- January 4 - Griffith J. Griffith, industrialist (died 1919)
- April 16 - Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (died 1885)
1851
- March 24 - Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (d. 1906)
- July 8 - Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist (d. 1941)
- December 27 - Percy Gilchrist, industrialist
- date unknown - Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, promoter of women's education (died 1925)
1852
- March 20 - John Gwenogvryn Evans, palaeographer (died 1930)
- April 26 - William Eilir Evans, journalist (died 1910)
- April 28 - Sir Francis Edwards, 1st Baronet, Liberal politician (died 1927)
- May 11 - Sir David Saunders Davies, MP (died 1934)
- November 25 - Sir Evan Vincent Evans, Eisteddfod supporter (died 1934)
- December - Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), writer (died 1943)
1855
- date unknown - Jeremiah Jones, poet (died 1902)
1856
- March 26 - David Alfred Thomas, politician (died 1918)
1858
- January 28 - Edgeworth David, explorer (died 1934)
- December 28 - Josiah Towyn Jones, politician
1859
- February 16 - T. E. Ellis, politician (died 1899)
- July 17 - Ernest Rhys, writer (died 1946)

1850
- September 2 - Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, politician (born 1775)
1851
- April 6 - William Morgan Kinsey, travel writer (born 1788)
- June 30 - Thomas Phillips, founder of Llandovery College (born 1760)
1852
- February 23 - Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd), minister and journalist, 31
- May 2 - John Jones (Ioan Tegid), poet (born 1792)
- November 26 - John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur and politician, 77
1853
- date unknown - William Roberts, preacher (b. 1809)
1854
- April 3 - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician (born 1768)
- April 29 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician (born 1768)
1855
- June 28 - FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (born 1788)
- date unknown
- Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet, industrialist
- John Henry Vivian, industrialist (born 1785)
1857
- February 10 - David Thompson, explorer (born to Welsh parents 1770)
- August 12 - William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandaff (born 1787)
- August 16 - John Jones (Talysarn), leading non-conformist minister (born 1796)
1858
- November 17 - Robert Owen, founder of the Co-operative Society (born 1771)
- November 20 - Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet, ironmaster (born 1783)
- December 18 - John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, nephew of Hester Thrale (born 1793)