- 1838 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1838 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"Events
*October -
John Frost joins the Chartist movement.
*Newly-created baronets include SirJohn Josiah Guest , Sir Benjamin Hall and Sir John Edwards.
*John Cory of Devon opens his chandlery near the Custom House inCardiff .
*Thomas Gee joins his father's printing business.
*Foundation of the Bangor Church Building Society.
*J. M. W. Turner paints a water-colour ofFlint Castle .Arts and literature
*A major eisteddfod is held at
Abergavenny .New books
*Sir
Henry Ellis (ed.) - "The Record of Kaernarvon"
*Isaac Williams - "Thoughts in Past Years"
*Jane Williams (Ysgafell) - "Twenty Essays on the Practical Improvement of God's Providential Dispensations as Means to the Moral Discipline to the Christian"Music
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Births
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April 14 - John Thomas, photographer (d. 1905)
*December 8 -Charles Gresford Edmondes , clergyman and teacher (d. 1893)
*December 27 -James Conway Brown , musician (d. 1908)Deaths
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January 23 -Pascoe Grenfell , industrialist and politician, 76
*March 14 - Wyndham Lewis, MP, 57
*July 19 -Christmas Evans , preacher, 71
*September 18 -Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris), poet, 69
*December 26 -Julia Ann Hatton , novelist, 74
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