1838 in Wales explained

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 Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey^[18]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson^{[19] [20] [21] [22]}

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.^[23]

New books

• Sir Henry Ellis (ed.) - Registrum vulgariter nuncupatum "The record of Caernarvon"^[24]
• 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)^[25]
• 27 December - James Conway Brown, musician (d. 1908)

Deaths

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

See also

• 1838 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. Web site: Penpont including attached conservatory and rear service ranges. British Listed Buildings. 2 December 2021.
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: W. L. Davies. Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. 1982. Council of the National Library of Wales. 490.
24. Book: Registrum Muncaputum "the Record of Caernarvon" by Command of the Queen. 1838.
25. s-EDMO-GRE-1838. Edmondes, Charles Gresford (1838-1893), archdeacon and college principal. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 1959. 4 December 2021.
26. Book: Gordon Willoughby James Gyll. History of the Parish of Wraysbury, Ankerwycke Priory, and Magna Charta Island: With the History of Horton, and the Town of Colnbrook, Bucks. 1862. H.G. Bohn. 73.
27. Book: Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield). John Alexander Wilson Gunn. Melvin George Wiebe. Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1838-1841. 1987. University of Toronto Press. 744.
28. Book: Christmas Evans. J. Davis. Memoir and sermons of the Rev. Christmas Evans. 1840. J. Davis. 96.
29. s-NICH-JOH-1759. Nicholl, Sir John (1759-1838), judge. Henry John Randall. 1959. 4 December 2021.
30. s-WILL-GRI-1769. Williams, Griffith (Gutyn Peris; 1769-1838), poet. Griffith Thomas Roberts. National Library of Wales. 19 October 2021.
31. Book: Ralph Alan Griffiths. The City of Swansea: Challenges and Change. 1991. A. Sutton. 978-0-86299-676-5. 211.