1838 in Wales

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
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams
• 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 – Capel Hanbury Leigh
• 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

• 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.

New books

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

Deaths

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

See also

• 1838 in Ireland

References