1835 in Wales

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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 (until 23 November);^[5] Penry Williams (from 24 December)^[6]
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby^[7]
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^[8]
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[9]
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[10]
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (until 23 November); Capel Hanbury Leigh (from 24 December^[11]
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[12]
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[13]
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^[14]^[2]^[15]

Bishop of Bangor â Christopher Bethell^[16]^[17]
Bishop of Llandaff â Edward Copleston^[18]
Bishop of St Asaph â William Carey^[19]^[20]^[18]
Bishop of St Davids â John Jenkinson^[18]^[21]^[22]^[23]

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.^[24]
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.^[25]
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.
date unknown
- 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.^[26]
- Adam Sedgwick names the Cambrian period in geology.^[27]

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 (in Trowbridge) â Solomon Andrews, entrepreneur (d. 1908)
10 May â John Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe, industrialist (d. 1913)^[28]
14 July â John Roberts, politician (d. 1894)
7 August â Griffith Evans, bacteriologist (d. 1935)
29 August â Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (d. 1914)^[29]

Deaths

3 March â Daniel Evans, Independent minister and author, 61^[30]
1 May â Edward Jones, architect, 39^[31]
13 May â John Nash, architect, 83
16 May â Felicia Hemans, poet, 41
4 June â William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer, 75^[32]
23 November â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 68^[33]
1 December â Robert Davies (Robin Ddu o'r Glyn), poet, 66
16 December â David Price, East India Company officer, 73^[34]
29 December â Richard Llwyd, poet, 83

References

[1]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
[2]
J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
[3]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
[4]
Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
[5]
Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
[6]
Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
[7]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
[8]
"not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
[9]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
[10]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
[11]
Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.
[12]
Evan David Jones (1959). "Herbert family (earls of Powis)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
[13]
Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
[14]
Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
[15]
William Stockdale (1833). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. p. 86.
[16]
Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
[17]
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
[18]
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
[19]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Carey, William (1769-1846)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885â1900.
[20]
The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
[21]
The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
[22]
George III (King of Great Britain) (1967). The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. University Press. p. 434.
[23]
"Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas". The Royal Society. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
[24]
Richard Bartholomew Mosse (1837). The parliamentary guide, a concise biography of the members of both houses of parliament. pp. 184.
[25]
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons. Ordered to be printed. 1846. p. 318.
[26]
Henry Evers (1878). Steam and the Steam Engine: Land, Marine, and Locomotive. W. Collins. pp. 256.
[27]
Murchison, R. I.; Sedgwick, A. (1835). "On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems". Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: 59â61.
[28]
"John Jones Jenkins". Graces Guide. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
[29]
"Guest, Ivor Bertie (GST852IB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
[30]
John Dyfnallt Owen (1959). "Evans, Daniel(1774-1835), Congregational minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
[31]
Palmer A.N. 1888, op cit.; Piece 4131: Wrexham, Chester Street Chapel (Presbyterian), 1814-1837
[32]
Griffith John Williams (1959). "Pughe, William Owen (1759â1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
[33]
Richard B. Mosse (1837). The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses. A. H. Baily & Co. p. 9.
[34]
"Price, David". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22746. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)