1830 in Wales

Updated on Nov 05, 2023

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Centuries: 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1830 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - vacant

Princess of Wales - vacant

February 23 - William Carey becomes Bishop of St Asaph.

April 23 - John Montgomery Traherne marries Charlotte Louisa Talbot, daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam.

The Penydarren works at Merthyr Tydfil produce the rails for the world's first steam railway.

The Plymouth ironworks produces over 12,000 tons of bar-iron, compared with 7,941 tons ten years earlier.

Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed Treasurer of the Navy by the Duke of Wellington.

Ellis Evans - Anogaeth i Athrawon ac Athrawesau ein Hysgolion Sabothol

Felicia Hemans - Songs of the Affections

Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - Athrawiaeth Bedydd (1830)

Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court

Thomas Griffiths (Tau Gimel) - Casgliad o Hymnau

January 23 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (d. 1861)

April 22 - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)

May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic (d. 1904)

May 25 - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (d. 1877)

12 January - Owen Davies, Wesleyan Methodist leader

26 June - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales (1762–1820)

9 July - Henry William Majendie, Bishop of Bangor

18 November - John Howell (Ioan ab Hywel or Ioan Glandyfroedd), poet

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