1834 in Wales

1834 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*December 27 - A ferry from Penally to Caldey sinks, and 15 people drown.
*The Treasury awards a grant of £84 for a school to be set up at Abergwili.

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 (unpublished MS)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

*February 15 - Sir William Henry Preece, engineer (d. 1913)
*March 31 - Thomas Rees Jones, engineer and inventor (d. 1897)
*July 2 - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician (d. 1913)
*August 23 - Hugh Owen Thomas, orthopaedic surgeon (d. 1891)
*October 16 - Pryce Pryce-Jones, mail order entrepreneur (d. 1920)
*"date unknown" - William Thomas (Gwilym Marles), minister (d. 1879)
*December 21 - Griffith Rhys Jones, choirmaster and conductor (d. 1897)

Deaths

*July 9 - Dafydd Cadwaladr, preacher, 82
*August 11 - William Crawshay I, industrialist (b. 1764)
*September 2 - David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)


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