1838 in Wales

1838 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1838 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*October - John Frost joins the Chartist movement.
*Newly-created baronets include Sir John Josiah Guest, Sir Benjamin Hall and Sir John Edwards.
*John Cory of Devon opens his chandlery near the Custom House in Cardiff.
*Thomas Gee joins his father's printing business.
*Foundation of the Bangor Church Building Society.
*J. M. W. Turner paints a water-colour of Flint 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

*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

*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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