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- Summer – Marian Evans (who has not yet adopted the pseudonym George Eliot) drafts "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton", the first of her Scenes of Clerical Life (1857) and her first work of fiction, while holidaying at Tenby.
- 3 January – Thomas Richard, minister, 72
- 18 February – James Morgan, engineer, 80?
- 28 March – Henry Watkins Williams-Wynn, politician, 73[32]
- May – Thomas Robert Jones, founder of the Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites, 54
- 28 May – John Bryan, minister, 79/80[33]
- 29 June – Peter Jones, Welsh-descended missionary, 54
- 14 August – Rev William Buckland, palaeontologist and discoverer of the "Red Lady of Paviland", 72[34]
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