1734 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1734 to Wales and its people.
Incumbent[]
Events[]
- March - In a report to the , missionary Griffith Hughes claims to have travelled over 1,100 miles in the Pennsylvania region in the course of his preaching.[1]
- 30 March - First entry in the diary of William Bulkeley.[2]
- date unknown
- Original construction (in stone) of Cilewent Farmhouse, now located at St Fagans National History Museum.[3]
- Daniel Rowland marries Eleanor Davies of Caer-llugest and is ordained a deacon.[4]
Arts and literature[]
New books[]
English language[]
- Edmund Curll - The Life of Robert Price … one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas[5]
Welsh language[]
- Simon Thomas - Athrawiaethau Difinyddawl[6]
Births[]
- 20 January - Robert Morris, Welsh-born American merchant (died 1806)
- 15 April - Evan Lloyd, poet (died 1776)[7]
- 3 July - Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (died 1794)[8]
- 24 October - Thomas Henry, apothecary (died 1816)
Deaths[]
- 14 June
- Francis Gwyn, politician, 85[9]
- John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?[10]
- 13 July - Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63[11]
- October - Thomas Lloyd, lexicographer, 61?[12]
- 26 December - Salusbury Lloyd, politician, [13]
- date unknown - Elisha Beadles, South Wales-based Quaker leader, 74?[14]
References[]
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Hughes, Griffith (fl. 1707-1750), cleric and naturalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ^ Elizabeth Dew Roberts (1936). Mr. Bulkeley and the Pirate: A Welsh Diarist of the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press, H. Milford. p. 4.
- ^ St Fagans: National History Museum - Cilewent Farmhouse Archived 8 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 5 May 2013]
- ^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Rowland, Daniel (1713-1790), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ^ "Curll, Edmund". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Thomas, Nicholas (died 1741), printer and publisher, Carmarthen (and Hereford)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ^ Sambrook, James (2004). "Lloyd, Evan (1734–1776)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. G. Woodfall. 1828. p. 98.
- ^ Walter Thomas Morgan. "Gwyn, Francis (1648?-1734), politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Robert Stephen. "HANBURY family, of Pontypool industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Wynne, Ellis (1670/1-1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Jones, Evan David. "Lloyd, Thomas (1673?-1734), cleric and lexicologist". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 May 2008.
- ^ "LLOYD, Salusbury (d.1734), of Leadbrook, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ Thomas Mardy Rees. "Beadles, Elisha (1670-1734), Quaker and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
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