- Sir Arthur Kennedy GCMG CB Governor 1855-1862, Fitzgerald having retired.
- Joseph Keane Hitchcock, 'Fremantle's first historian', born in Guildford (Western Australia), to die in 1929, three months after his The History of Fremantle was published.
Freotopia
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 6 August, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/timeline/1855.html (it was last updated on 19 December, 2018), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.