1838 in Wales

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

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams ^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh ^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis ^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet ^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney ^{[14] [2] [15]}

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell ^{[16] [17]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston ^[18]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey ^{[19] [20] [18]}
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson ^{[18] [21] [22] [23]}

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. ^[24]

New books

• Sir Henry Ellis (ed.) - Registrum vulgariter nuncupatum "The record of Caernarvon" ^[25]
• 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) ^[26]
• 27 December - James Conway Brown, musician (d. 1908)

Deaths

• 23 January - Pascoe Grenfell, industrialist and politician, 76 ^[27]
• 14 March - Wyndham Lewis, MP, 57 ^[28]
• 19 July - Christmas Evans, preacher, 71 ^[29]
• 26 August - Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge, 79 ^[30]
• 18 September - Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris), poet, 69 ^[31]
• 26 December - Julia Ann Hatton, novelist, 74 ^[32]

See also

• 1838 in Ireland

References

1. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. "Penpont including attached conservatory and rear service ranges". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
6. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
7. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
8. "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. "Old Wales" Office. 3: 106. 1907.
9. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN   9780806313146.
10. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
11. Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.
12. Evan David Jones (1959). "Herbert family (earls of Powis)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 30 November 2021.
13. Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
14. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
15. William Stockdale (1833). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. p. 86.
16. Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN   9780521563505.
17. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
18. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
19.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Carey, William (1769-1846)". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
20. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
21. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
22. George III (King of Great Britain) (1967). The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. University Press. p. 434.
23. "Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas". The Royal Society. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
24. W. L. Davies (1982). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Council of the National Library of Wales. p. 490.
25. Registrum Muncaputum "the Record of Caernarvon" by Command of the Queen. 1838.
26. Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Edmondes, Charles Gresford (1838-1893), archdeacon and college principal". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 4 December 2021.
27. 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.
28. Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield); John Alexander Wilson Gunn; Melvin George Wiebe (1987). Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1838-1841. University of Toronto Press. p. 744.
29. Christmas Evans; J. Davis (1840). Memoir and sermons of the Rev. Christmas Evans. J. Davis. p. 96.
30. Henry John Randall (1959). "Nicholl, Sir John (1759-1838), judge". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 4 December 2021.
31. Griffith Thomas Roberts. "Williams, Griffith (Gutyn Peris; 1769-1838), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
32. Ralph Alan Griffiths (1991). The City of Swansea: Challenges and Change. A. Sutton. p. 211. ISBN   978-0-86299-676-5.