This article is about the particular significance of the year 1838 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Penry Williams
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â William Edward Powell
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Capel Hanbury Leigh
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
Events
Arts and literature
New books
Visual arts
Births
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
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