1838 in Wales

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

← 1837 1836 1835 1834 1833 1838 in Wales → 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1838 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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.
• Tinplate manufacture at Ystalyfera begins.
• Wrexham Infirmary established.
• Foundation of the Bangor Church Building Society.

Arts and literature

• A major eisteddfod is held at Abergavenny.[1]

New books

• Sir Henry Ellis (ed.) - Registrum vulgariter nuncupatum "The record of Caernarvon"[2]
• Lady Charlotte Guest begins publication of her translation into English of the Mabinogion.
• 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

Visual arts

• J. M. W. Turner paints a watercolour of Flint Castle.

Births

• 14 April - John Thomas, photographer (d. 1905)
• 8 December - Charles Gresford Edmondes, clergyman and teacher (d. 1893)
• 27 December - James Conway Brown, musician (d. 1908)

Deaths

• 23 January - Pascoe Grenfell, industrialist and politician, 76[3]
• 14 March - Wyndham Lewis, MP, 57[4]
• 19 July - Christmas Evans, preacher, 71[5]
• 26 August - Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge, 79
• 18 September - Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris), poet, 69
• 26 December - Julia Ann Hatton, novelist, 74[6]

References

1. W. L. Davies (1982). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Council of the National Library of Wales. p. 490.
2. Registrum Muncaputum "the Record of Caernarvon" by Command of the Queen. 1838.
3. Gordon Willoughby James Gyll (1862). History of the Parish of Wraysbury, Ankerwycke Priory, and Magna Charta Island: With the History of Horton, and the Town of Colnbrook, Bucks. H.G. Bohn. p. 73.
4. Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield); John Alexander Wilson Gunn; Melvin George Wiebe (1987). Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1838-1841. University of Toronto Press. p. 744.
5. Christmas Evans; J. Davis (1840). Memoir and sermons of the Rev. Christmas Evans. J. Davis. p. 96.
6. Ralph Alan Griffiths (1991). The City of Swansea: Challenges and Change. A. Sutton. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-86299-676-5.