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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1734 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos[1]
- Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Sherlock (until 8 November);[4] Charles Cecil (from 15 January)[5]
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris[6]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner[7][8]
- Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett[9]
Events
Cilewent Farmhouse at St Fagan's, built in stone in 1734.
- March – In a report to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, missionary Griffith Hughes claims to have travelled over 1,100 miles in the Pennsylvania region in the course of his preaching.[10]
- 30 March – First entry in the diary of William Bulkeley.[11]
- date unknown
- Original construction (in stone) of Cilewent Farmhouse, now located at St Fagans National History Museum.[12]
- Daniel Rowland marries Eleanor Davies of Caer-llugest and is ordained a deacon.[13]
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- Edmund Curll – The Life of Robert Price … one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas[14]
Welsh language
- Simon Thomas – Athrawiaethau Difinyddawl[15]
Births
- 20 January – Robert Morris, Welsh-born American merchant (died 1806)
- 15 April – Evan Lloyd, poet (died 1776)[16]
- 3 July – Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (died 1794)[17]
- 24 October – Thomas Henry, apothecary (died 1816)
Deaths
- 14 June
- Francis Gwyn, politician, 85[18]
- John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?[19]
- 13 July – Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63[20]
- October – Thomas Lloyd, lexicographer, 61?[21]
- 26 December – Salusbury Lloyd, politician,[22]
- date unknown – Elisha Beadles, South Wales-based Quaker leader, 74?[23]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ↑ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ↑ Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. p. 235.
- ↑ E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (23 February 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
- ↑ Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 108.
- ↑ Thomas, Lawrence. "Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ↑ Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
- ↑ Courtney, William Prideaux (1898). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ↑ "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Hughes, Griffith (fl. 1707-1750), cleric and naturalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ↑ Elizabeth Dew Roberts (1936). Mr. Bulkeley and the Pirate: A Welsh Diarist of the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press, H. Milford. p. 4.
- ↑ St Fagans: National History Museum - Cilewent Farmhouse Archived 8 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 5 May 2013
- ↑ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Rowland, Daniel (1713-1790), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ↑
"Curll, Edmund". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. - ↑ William Llewelyn Davies. "Thomas, Nicholas (died 1741), printer and publisher, Carmarthen (and Hereford)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ↑ Sambrook, James (2004). "Lloyd, Evan (1734–1776)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
- ↑ Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. G. Woodfall. 1828. p. 98.
- ↑ Walter Thomas Morgan. "Gwyn, Francis (1648?-1734), politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ↑ Robert Stephen. "HANBURY family, of Pontypool industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ↑ William Llewelyn Davies. "Wynne, Ellis (1670/1-1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ↑ Jones, Evan David. "Lloyd, Thomas (1673?-1734), cleric and lexicologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 May 2008.
- ↑ "LLOYD, Salusbury (d.1734), of Leadbrook, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ↑ Thomas Mardy Rees. "Beadles, Elisha (1670-1734), Quaker and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
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