1833 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1833 to Wales and its people.

← 1832 1831 1830 1829 1828 1833 in Wales → 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1833 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 29 January - In the United Kingdom general election, Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, defeats Tory candidate Panton Corbett to win the enlarged constituency of Montgomery for the Liberals.
• 2 April - Launch of HMS Royal William at Pembroke Dock. This is the first ship to be built there with over 100 guns.[1]
• 26 May - John Etherington Welch Rolls of The Hendre, Monmouth, marries Elizabeth Long, granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Northesk. They are the parents of John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock.[2]
• 29 July - Lady Charlotte Bertie marries John Josiah Guest.[3]
• Autumn - The community of Gomer, Ohio, is founded in the USA by Welsh settlers.[4]
• date unknown
  • Isaac Williams becomes Dean of Trinity College, Oxford.[5]
  • Adrian Stephens invents the steam whistle as a safety device for use at Dowlais Ironworks; he fails to patent it.
  • Abbey Cwmhir Hall is constructed on the site of an earlier house.[6]

Arts and literature

• Mold cape discovered.

New books

• Sir Harford Jones Brydges - The Dynasty of the Kajars, translated from the original Persian manuscript
• Eliza Constantia Campbell - Stories from the History of Wales

Music

• David James - Myfyrdawd

Births

• 10 January – Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet (d. 1877)[7]
• 23 January – Sir Lewis Morris, poet (d. 1907)
• 29 January – David John, Mormon leader (d. 1908 in Utah)[8]
• 6 July – David Hugh Jones (Dewi Arfon), poet (d. 1869)
• 12 July – John Hugh Evans, Wesleyan minister and temperance campaigner (d. 1886)
• 20 August – General Sir James Hills-Johnes, military leader (d. 1919)
• date unknown
  • Jacob Thomas, VC recipient (d. 1911)

Deaths

• 9 January – Sir Thomas Foley, admiral, 75[9]
• 29 January – Thomas Evans, poet, 66
• 6 February – Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London, 69[10]
• 26 February – Richard Jones, minister and writer, 61
• 4 May – William Morgan, scientist and actuary 82
• 16 August – John Edwards-Vaughan, politician, 61[11]
• 1 October – Thomas Beynon, archdeacon of Cardigan and patron of the arts, 88

References

1. William Walker (Commander, Royal Navy.) (1853). The magnetism of ships: and the mariner's compass. Piper brothers & co. p. 85.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (2000). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales p.784-6. ISBN 978-0-8063-1314-6.
3. D.R. Phillips. Lady Charlotte Guest and the Mabinogion. Рипол Классик. p. 18. ISBN 978-5-87743-302-1.
4. Ohio History. Ohio Historical Society. 1907. p. 222.
5. Historical Association (Great Britain) (1982). General Series. Historical Association. p. 42.
6. Reginald Campbell Burn Oliver (1971). The squires of Penybont Hall, Radnorshire, 1755-1926. R. C. B. Oliver. p. 17.
7. Thomas Hughes Jones. "Davies, Richard (Mynyddog; 1833-1877), poet, singer, and eisteddfod conductor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
8. Andrew Jenson. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1, pages 488-490
9. Various; Various Authors (28 February 2013). The Nautical Magazine for 1833. Cambridge University Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-108-05385-3.
10. The Old and New Representation of the United Kingdom, Contrasted; Being a Correct Detail of the Members of the House of Commons at the Commencement of the Session of 1832, with the Changes During the Session. Vacher & Son. 1833. p. 40.
11. Great Britain (1838). The London Gazette. T. Neuman. p. 601.