This article is about the particular significance of the year 1855 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall
Events 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. Construction of the first section of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway begins.
Arts and literature New books John Jones (Talhaiarn) – Gwaith Talhaiarn, vol. 1 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.
Births 11 February – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player (died 1889) 9 April – Jeremiah Jones, poet (died 1902) 16 August – William David Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1918) 11 December – David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, singer (died 1918)
Deaths 21 January – Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), poet, 59 22 January – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician, 74 9 February – William Chambers, industrialist, 81 10 February – John Henry Vivian, industrialist, 69 28 June – FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 66 probable Richard Jones, printer and publisher, ?68 William Edwards (Gwilym Callestr), poet
See also 1855 in Ireland
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