1834 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1834 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^[12][2][13]
• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^[14][15]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston^[16]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey^[17][18][16]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson^{[16][19][20][21]}

Events

• 12 February - The city of Bangor, Maine, is incorporated in the United States.^[22] It is said to have been named after the Welsh hymn tune "Bangor".^[23]
• 23 June - HMS Tartarus is launched at Pembroke Dock. It is the Royal Navy's first steam-powered man-of-war (a paddle gunvessel).^[24]
• 27 December - A ferry from Penally to Caldey sinks and 15 people drown.
• 29 December - The West of England and South Wales District Bank is established in Bristol.^[25]
• unknown dates
  • William Williams of Wern starts the "General Union" movement.^[26]
  • The government begins to make grants of 50% towards the erection of new elementary schools in England and Wales;^[27] hence the Treasury awards £84 for a school to be set up at Abergwili.
  • Border Breweries (Wrexham) begin operation at the Nag's Head public house.^[28]
  • Walter Rice Howell Powell inherits the Maesgwynne estate. Nicholas, Thomas.^[29]

Arts and literature

• At an eisteddfod held in Cardiff, Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover, wins a prize for her essay on the Welsh language. Taliesin Williams wins the chair.

New books

• Sir Harford Jones Brydges - An Account of His Majesty's Mission to Persia in the years 1807-11
• Thomas Medwin - The Angler in Wales: Or, Days and Nights of Sportsmen^[30]
• John Humffreys Parry - The Cambrian Plutarch: Comprising Memoirs of Some of the Most Eminent Welshmen^[31]

Music

• Foulk Robert Williams - Llyfr Cerddoriaeth o Gerddi Sion... (unpublished MS)

Births

• 15 February - Sir William Henry Preece, engineer (d. 1913)^[32]
• 31 March - Thomas Rees Jones, engineer and inventor (d. 1897)
• 14 April - Arthur John Williams, lawyer, author and politician (d. 1911)
• 2 July - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician (d. 1913)^[33]
• 23 August - Hugh Owen Thomas, orthopaedic surgeon (d. 1891)^[34]
• 16 October - Pryce Pryce-Jones, mail order entrepreneur (d. 1920)^[35]
• 21 December - Griffith Rhys Jones, choirmaster and conductor (d. 1897)^[36]
• date unknown - William Thomas (Gwilym Marles), minister (d. 1879)^[37]

Deaths

• 17 February - John Thelwall, Welsh-descended orator, writer, political reformer, journalist, poet, elocutionist and speech therapist, 69^[38]
• 29 March - John Mytton, eccentric squire and politician of the Welsh border country, 37 (alcohol-related)^[39]
• 13 May - John Jones, clergyman and writer, 58^[40]
• 20 June - John Wynne Griffith, politician, 71^[41]
• 9 July - Dafydd Cadwaladr, preacher, 82^[42]
• 11 August - William Crawshay I, industrialist, about 70 (b. 1764)^[43]
• 2 September - David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)^[44]

See also

• 1834 in Ireland

References

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4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
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