1830 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1830 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby^[6]
• 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^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis (until 20 November;^[10] Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (from 20 November)^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^{[13] [2] [14]}
• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie (until 9 July); Christopher Bethell (from 28 October)^{[15] [16]}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore (until 31 January)William Carey (from 12 November)^[17]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson^{[18] [19] [20] [21]}

Events

• February 23 - William Carey becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
• April 23 - John Montgomery Traherne marries Charlotte Louisa Talbot, daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam.^[22]
• September 1 - In the 1830 United Kingdom general election, Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot is elected for Glamorganshire as a Whig; he will continue to sit for a Glamorganshire constituency until his death in 1890.
• The Penydarren works at Merthyr Tydfil produce the rails for the world's first steam railway.
• The Plymouth ironworks produces over 12,000 tons of bar-iron, compared with 7,941 tons ten years earlier.
• Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed Treasurer of the Navy by the Duke of Wellington.

Arts and literature

New books

• Ellis Evans - Anogaeth i Athrawon ac Athrawesau ein Hysgolion Sabothol^[23]
• Felicia Hemans - Songs of the Affections
• Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - Athrawiaeth Bedydd (1830)
• Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court

Music

• Thomas Griffiths (Tau Gimel) - Casgliad o Hymnau

Births

• 23 January - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (d. 1861)
• 22 April - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)^[24]
• May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic (d. 1904)
• 25 May - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (d. 1877)
• 2 June - Sir John Henry Puleston, banker and politician (d. 1908)
• 12 December - Edwin Hughes ("Balaclava Ned"), soldier, last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade (d. 1927)

Deaths

• 12 January - Owen Davies, Wesleyan Methodist leader
• 31 January - John Luxmoore, Bishop of St Asaph, 64
• 26 June - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales (1762–1820), 67^[25]
• 9 July - Henry William Majendie, Bishop of Bangor^[26]
• 18 November - John Howell (Ioan ab Hywel or Ioan Glandyfroedd), poet
• 29 November - James Humphreys, lawyer, about 62^[27]

See also

• 1830 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Book: Edwin Poole. 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. 1886. 378.
6. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
7. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
8. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
9. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
10. Web site: R. G. Thorne. Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820. 1986. 13 November 2021.
11. s-POWY-HER-1674. Herbert family (earls of Powis). Evan David Jones. 1959. 30 November 2021.
12. Web site: Thorne . R.G. . John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire . History of Parliament . 27 March 2020.
13. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
14. Book: William Stockdale. Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. 1833. 86.
15. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
16. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
17. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
18. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
19. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
20. Book: The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. George III (King of Great Britain). University Press. 1967. 434.
21. Web site: Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas . The Royal Society . 30 October 2020.
22. Book: Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review. 1860. 518.
23. Book: Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. 1953. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa.
24. Book: Ann B. Murphy. Deirdre Raftery. Emily Davies: Collected Letters, 1861-1875. 3 March 2004. University of Virginia Press. 978-0-8139-2391-8. 9.
25. Book: Smith, E. A. . George IV . 1999 . Yale University Press . 0-300-07685-1 . E. A. Smith (historian). 275.
26. Book: Sylvanus Urban. The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, from July to December,1830. Volume C. (Being the Twenty-Third of New Series.) Part the Second.. 1830. 274.
27. s-HUMP-JAM-1768. Humphreys, James (c.1768-1830), legal writer. Elwyn Evans. 1959. 30 November 2021.