1834 in Wales

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

← 1833 1832 1831 1830 1829 1834 in Wales → 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1834 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 12 February - The city of Bangor, Maine, is incorporated in the United States.[1] It is said to have been named after the Welsh hymn tune "Bangor".[2]
• 23 June - HMS Tartarus is launched at Pembroke Dock. It is the Royal Navy's first steam-powered man-of-war (a paddle gunvessel).[3]
• 27 December - A ferry from Penally to Caldey sinks and 15 people drown.
• 29 December - The West of England and South Wales District Bank is established in Bristol.[4]
• 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;[5] 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 (unpublished MS)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

• 17 February - John Thelwall, Welsh-descended orator, writer, political reformer, journalist, poet, elocutionist and speech therapist, 69
• 29 March - John Mytton, eccentric squire and politician of the Welsh border country, 37 (alcohol-related)[6]
• 13 May - John Jones, clergyman and writer, 58[7]
• 20 June - John Wynne Griffith, politician, 71[8]
• 9 July - Dafydd Cadwaladr, preacher, 82
• 11 August - William Crawshay I, industrialist (b. 1764)
• 2 September - David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)

References

1. Harrie Badger Coe (1928). Maine, Resources, Attractions, and Its People: A History. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 893.
2. Best Books on (1937). Maine, a Guide 'down East,'. Best Books on. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-62376-018-2.
3. Guard, John (5 January 2004). "History of Pembroke Dockyard". Retrieved 10 January 2012.
4. "West of england and South Wales District Banking Company". British Banking History Society. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
5. Berry, George (1970). Discovering Schools. Tring: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-85263-091-3.
6. "Jack Mytton". Bye-gones Relating to Wales and the Border Counties: 294. February 1900. hdl:10107/2099670.
7. Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth (2007). "Jones, John (1775–1834), cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 March 2009.
8. Jacob Youde William Lloyd (1885). The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog: And the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd. T. Richards. p. 295.