1835 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1835 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 (until 23 November);^[5] Penry Williams (from 24 December)^[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 – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (until 23 November); Capel Hanbury Leigh (from 24 December^[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 Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey^[18]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson^{[19] [20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 8 January - Sir Joseph Bailey is elected MP for Worcester.
• 19 February - In the United Kingdom general election, newly elected MPs in Wales include Wilson Jones at Denbigh Boroughs.^[23]
• March - At a public meeting in the King's Head Inn, Newport, plans for a floating dock are agreed.
• July - The Newport Dock Act receives the royal assent.^[24]
• September - John Frost is one of the first councillors elected in Newport under the terms of the Municipal Reform Act.
• 1 December - John Owen, mayor of Newport, cuts the first sod as construction begins on Newport Docks.
• date unknown
  • The steam whistle, invented by Adrian Stephens two years earlier, is seen in operation at Dowlais ironworks and is adopted by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway shortly afterwards.^[25]
  • Adam Sedgwick names the Cambrian period in geology.^[26]

Arts and literature

• The Royal Institution of South Wales is established as the Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society.

New books

• Y Fwyalchen (poetry anthology)
• Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis - The Lyvys of the Seyntys

Music

• Anglesey Musical Society holds its first festival.
• John Roberts (Alaw Elwy) plays the harp for Queen Adelaide at Winchester.

Births

• 5 April (in Trowbridge) – Solomon Andrews, entrepreneur (d. 1908)
• 10 May – John Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe, industrialist (d. 1913)^[27]
• 14 July – John Roberts, politician (d. 1894)
• 7 August – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist (d. 1935)
• 29 August – Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (d. 1914)

Deaths

• 3 March – Daniel Evans, Independent minister and author, 61^[28]
• 1 May – Edward Jones, architect, 39^[29]
• 13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
• 16 May – Felicia Hemans, poet, 41
• 4 June – William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer, 75^[30]
• 23 November – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 68^[31]
• 1 December – Robert Davies (Robin Ddu o'r Glyn), poet, 66
• 16 December – David Price, East India Company officer, 73
• 29 December – Richard Llwyd, poet, 83

See also

• 1835 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: 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.
7. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
8. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
9. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
10. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
11. Book: Amy Audrey Locke. The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. 1916. 147.
12. s-POWY-HER-1674. Herbert family (earls of Powis). Evan David Jones. 1959. 30 November 2021.
13. Web site: Thorne . R.G. . John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire . History of Parliament . 27 March 2020.
14. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
15. Book: William Stockdale. Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. 1833. 86.
16. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
17. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
18. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
19. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
20. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
21. Book: The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. George III (King of Great Britain). University Press. 1967. 434.
22. Web site: Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas . The Royal Society . 30 October 2020.
23. Book: Richard Bartholomew Mosse. The parliamentary guide, a concise biography of the members of both houses of parliament. 1837. 184.
24. Book: Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons. 1846. Ordered to be printed. 318.
25. Book: Henry Evers. Steam and the Steam Engine: Land, Marine, and Locomotive. 1878. W. Collins. 256.
26. R. I.. Murchison. Roderick Murchison. A.. Sedgwick. On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems. Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1835. 59–61.
27. Web site: John Jones Jenkins. Graces Guide. 2 December 2021.
28. s-EVAN-DAN-1774. Evans, Daniel(1774-1835), Congregational minister. John Dyfnallt Owen. 1959. 2 December 2021.
29. Palmer A.N. 1888, op cit.; Piece 4131: Wrexham, Chester Street Chapel (Presbyterian), 1814-1837
30. s-PUGH-OWE-1759. Pughe, William Owen (1759–1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet. Griffith John Williams. 1959. 2 December 2021.
31. Book: Richard B. Mosse. The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses. A. H. Baily & Co. 1837. 9.