1830 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1830 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â William Edward Powell[2]
- 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[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis (until 20 November;[10] Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (from 20 November)[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[13][2][14]
- Bishop of Bangor â Henry Majendie (until 9 July);[15] Christopher Bethell (from 28 October)[16][17]
- Bishop of Llandaff â Edward Copleston[18]
- Bishop of St Asaph â John Luxmoore (until 31 January)[19]William Carey (from 12 November)[20][21][18]
- Bishop of St Davids â John Jenkinson[18][22][23][24]
Events
- February 23 - William Carey becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
- April 23 - John Montgomery Traherne marries Charlotte Louisa Talbot, daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam.[25]
- September 1 - In the 1830 United Kingdom general election, Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot is elected for Glamorganshire as a Whig; he will continue to sit for a Glamorganshire constituency until his death in 1890.
- The Penydarren works at Merthyr Tydfil produce the rails for the world's first steam railway.
- The Plymouth ironworks produces over 12,000 tons of bar-iron, compared with 7,941 tons ten years earlier.
- Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed Treasurer of the Navy by the Duke of Wellington.
Arts and literature
New books
- Ellis Evans - Anogaeth i Athrawon ac Athrawesau ein Hysgolion Sabothol[26]
- Felicia Hemans - Songs of the Affections
- Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - Athrawiaeth Bedydd (1830)
- Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court
Music
- Thomas Griffiths (Tau Gimel) - Casgliad o Hymnau
Births
- 23 January - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (d. 1861)
- 22 April - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)[27]
- May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic (d. 1904)
- 25 May - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (d. 1877)
- 2 June - Sir John Henry Puleston, banker and politician (d. 1908)
- 12 December - Edwin Hughes ("Balaclava Ned"), soldier, last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade (d. 1927)
Deaths
- 12 January - Owen Davies, Wesleyan Methodist leader
- 31 January - John Luxmoore, Bishop of St Asaph, 64[19]
- 26 June - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales (1762â1820), 67[28]
- 9 July - Henry William Majendie, Bishop of Bangor[15]
- 18 November - John Howell (Ioan ab Hywel or Ioan Glandyfroedd), poet
- 29 November - James Humphreys, lawyer, about 62[29]
