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1833 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1833 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - vacant
  • Princess of Wales - vacant

    • Events

  • 29 January - In the United Kingdom general election, Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, defeats Tory candidate Panton Corbett to win the enlarged constituency of Montgomery for the Liberals.
  • 2 April - Launch of HMS Royal William at Pembroke Dock. This is the first ship to be built there with over 100 guns.
  • 26 May - John Etherington Welch Rolls of The Hendre, Monmouth, marries Elizabeth Long, granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Northesk. They are the parents of John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock.
  • Isaac Williams becomes Dean of Trinity College, Oxford.
  • Lady Charlotte Bertie marries John Josiah Guest.
  • Adrian Stephens invents the steam whistle as a safety device for use at Dowlais Ironworks; he fails to patent it.
  • The community of Gomer, Ohio, is founded in the USA by Welsh settlers.
  • Abbey Cwmhir Hall is constructed on the site of an earlier house.

    • Arts and literature

  • Mold cape discovered.

    • New books

  • Sir Harford Jones Brydges - The Dynasty of the Kajars, translated from the original Persian manuscript
  • Eliza Constantia Campbell - Stories from the History of Wales

    • Music

  • David James - Myfyrdawd

    • Births

  • 10 January - Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet (d. 1877)
  • 23 January - Sir Lewis Morris, poet (d. 1907)
  • 6 July - David Hugh Jones (Dewi Arfon), poet (d. 1869)
  • 12 July - John Hugh Evans, Wesleyan minister and temperance campaigner (d. 1886)
  • 20 August - General Sir James Hills-Johnes, military leader (d. 1919)
  • date unknown
  • James James (Iago ap Ieuan), harpist and composer (d. 1902)
  • Jacob Thomas, VC recipient (d. 1911)

    • Deaths

  • 9 January - Sir Thomas Foley, admiral, 75
  • 29 January - Thomas Evans, poet, 66
  • 6 February - Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London, 69
  • 26 February - Richard Jones, minister and writer, 61
  • 4 May - William Morgan, scientist and actuary 82
  • 16 August - John Edwards-Vaughan, politician, 61
  • 1 October - Thomas Beynon, archdeacon of Cardigan and patron of the arts, 88

    • References

    1833 in Wales Wikipedia
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