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1834 in Wales

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

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • June 23 - HMS Tartarus is launched at Pembroke Dock. It is the Royal Navy's first steam-powered man-of-war (a paddle gunvessel).
  • December 27 - A ferry from Penally to Caldey sinks and 15 people drown.
  • William Williams of Wern starts the "General Union" movement.
  • The government begins to make grants of 50% towards the erection of new elementary schools in England and Wales; 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.
  • Walter Rice Howell Powell inherits the Maesgwynne estate.

    • 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
  • John Humffreys Parry - The Cambrian Plutarch: Comprising Memoirs of Some of the Most Eminent Welshmen

    • Music

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 (unpublished MS)

    • Births

  • 15 February - Sir William Henry Preece, engineer (d. 1913)
  • 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)
  • 23 August - Hugh Owen Thomas, orthopaedic surgeon (d. 1891)
  • 16 October - Pryce Pryce-Jones, mail order entrepreneur (d. 1920)
  • 21 December - Griffith Rhys Jones, choirmaster and conductor (d. 1897)
  • date unknown - William Thomas (Gwilym Marles), minister (d. 1879)

    • Deaths

  • 13 May - John Jones, clergyman and writer, 58
  • 20 June - John Wynne Griffith, politician, 71
  • 9 July - Dafydd Cadwaladr, preacher, 82
  • 11 August - William Crawshay I, industrialist (b. 1764)
  • 2 September - David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)

    • References

    1834 in Wales Wikipedia
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