1838 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1838 to Wales and its people.
Incumbent[]
- Monarch - Victoria
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[]
- ^ W. L. Davies (1982). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Council of the National Library of Wales. p. 490.
- ^ Registrum Muncaputum "the Record of Caernarvon" by Command of the Queen. 1838.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield); John Alexander Wilson Gunn; Melvin George Wiebe (1987). Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1838-1841. University of Toronto Press. p. 744.
- ^ Christmas Evans; J. Davis (1840). Memoir and sermons of the Rev. Christmas Evans. J. Davis. p. 96.
- ^ Ralph Alan Griffiths (1991). The City of Swansea: Challenges and Change. A. Sutton. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-86299-676-5.
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