1734 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1710s; 1720s; 1730s; 1740s; 1750s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1734 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1734 to Wales and its people.

Incumbent[]

Monarch – George II

Events[]

Cilewent Farmhouse at St Fagan's, built in stone in 1734.

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.

[1] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Hughes, Griffith (fl. 1707-1750), cleric and naturalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.

[2] Elizabeth Dew Roberts (1936). Mr. Bulkeley and the Pirate: A Welsh Diarist of the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press, H. Milford. p. 4.

[3] St Fagans: National History Museum - Cilewent Farmhouse Archived 8 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 5 May 2013]

[4] Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Rowland, Daniel (1713-1790), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.

[5] "Curll, Edmund". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[6] 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.

[7] Sambrook, James (2004). "Lloyd, Evan (1734–1776)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.

[8] Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. G. Woodfall. 1828. p. 98.

[9] Walter Thomas Morgan. "Gwyn, Francis (1648?-1734), politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.

[10] Robert Stephen. "HANBURY family, of Pontypool industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.

[11] 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.

[12] Jones, Evan David. "Lloyd, Thomas (1673?-1734), cleric and lexicologist". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 May 2008.

[HOP-13] "LLOYD, Salusbury (d.1734), of Leadbrook, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 January 2019.

[14] 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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