1855 in Wales

1855 in Wales
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1855 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1855

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

Incumbents

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.
8 September — At the Siege of Sevastopool in the Crimean War, Corporal Robert Shields of the 23rd Regiment of Foot recovers a fatally wounded officer from an exposed position, an action for which he will become the first Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross.
Construction of the first section of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway begins.

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

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^[1]