1835 in Wales

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
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (until 23 November); Penry Williams (from 24 December)
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
• 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
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (until 23 November); Capel Hanbury Leigh (from 24 December
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson

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.
• 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.
• 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.
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• 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.
• Adam Sedgwick names the Cambrian period in geology.

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 <small>(in Trowbridge)</small> – Solomon Andrews, entrepreneur (d. 1908)
• 10 May – John Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe, industrialist (d. 1913)
• 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
• 1 May – Edward Jones, architect, 39
• 13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
• 16 May – Felicia Hemans, poet, 41
• 4 June – William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer, 75
• 23 November – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 68
• 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

References