1830s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1830 - 1839 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
[edit] Events
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- Charles James Apperley - The Chace, the Road, and the Turf (1837)
- Eliza Constantia Campbell - Tales about Wales (1837)
- John Evans (I. D. Ffraid) - Hanes yr Iddewon (1831)
- Y Fwyalchen (poetry anthology) (1835)
- Felicia Hemans - Songs of the Affections (1830)
- Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - Athrawiaeth Bedydd (1830)
- Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court (1830)
- Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) - Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1 (1836)
- William Williams (Caledfryn) - Drych Barddonol (1839)
[edit] Music
- Thomas Griffiths (Tau Gimel) - Casgliad o Hymnau (1830)
- David James - Myfyrdawd (1833)
[edit] Births
- 1830
- January 23 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (d. 1861)
- April 22 - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)
- May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic (d. 1904)
- May 25 - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (d. 1877)
- 1831
- December 20 - William T. Davies, Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1912)
- 1832
- January 5 - Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler (d. 1891)
- April 3 - William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (d. 1878)
- September 25 - John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (d. 1887)
- 1833
- date unknown
- Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet (d. 1877)
- James James, harpist and composer (d. 1902)
- date unknown
- 1834
- October 16 - Pryce Pryce-Jones, mail order entrepreneur (d. 1920)
- date unknown - William Thomas (Gwilym Marles), minister (d. 1879)
- 1836
- January 30 - Lewis Jones, Patagoniam settler (d. 1904)
- July 5 - Evan Herber Evans, minister (d. 1896)
- September 30 - George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist (d. 1907)
- October 6 - Allen Raine, novelist (d. 1908)
- October 20 - Daniel Owen, novelist (d. 1895)
- date unknown - John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), poet (d. 1921)
- 1837
- August 5 - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914)
- September 6 - Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher (d. 1884)
- September 22 - Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900)
- December 26 - Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929)
- date unknown - William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)
- 1838
- date unknown - Charles Gresford Edmondes, clergyman and teacher (d. 1893)
- 1839
- March 7 - Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)
- September 24 - John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)
- date unknown - Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)
[edit] Deaths
- 1830
- June 26 - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales (1762-1820)
- 1831
- January 7 - Edward "Celtic" Davies, author, 74
- June 8 - Sarah Siddons, actress (born 1755)
- August 13 - Dic Penderyn, labourer (executed) (born 1808)
- 1834
- August 11 - William Crawshay I, industrialist (b. 1764)
- September 2 - David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)
- 1835
- May 13 - John Nash, architect (b. 1752)
- June 3 - William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer (b. 1759)
- date unknown - Robert Davies (Robin Ddu o'r Glyn), poet (b. 1769)
- 1836
- November 22 - Peter Bailey Williams, antiquarian (b. 1763)
- 1837
- February 19 - Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, 80
- 1838
- March 14 - Wyndham Lewis, MP, 57
- July 19 - Christmas Evans, preacher (b. 1766)
- December 26 - Ann Hatton, novelist (b. 1764)
- 1839
- May 16 - Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
