1734 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1734 to Wales and its people.

← 1733 1732 1731 1730 1729 1734 in Wales → 1735 1736 1737 1738 1739
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1734 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

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.[1]
• 30 March - First entry in the diary of William Bulkeley.[2]
• date unknown
  • Original construction (in stone) of Cilewent Farmhouse, now located at St Fagans National History Museum.[3]
  • Daniel Rowland marries Eleanor Davies of Caer-llugest and is ordained a deacon.[4]

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[5]

Welsh language

• Simon Thomas - Athrawiaethau Difinyddawl[6]

Births

• 20 January - Robert Morris, Welsh-born American merchant (died 1806)
• 15 April - Evan Lloyd, poet (died 1776)[7]
• 3 July - Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (died 1794)[8]
• 24 October - Thomas Henry, apothecary (died 1816)

Deaths

• 14 June
  • Francis Gwyn, politician, 85[9]
  • John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?[10]
• 13 July - Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63[11]
• October - Thomas Lloyd, lexicographer, 61?[12]
• 26 December - Salusbury Lloyd, politician, [13]
• date unknown - Elisha Beadles, South Wales-based Quaker leader, 74?[14]

References

1. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Hughes, Griffith (fl. 1707-1750), cleric and naturalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
2. Elizabeth Dew Roberts (1936). Mr. Bulkeley and the Pirate: A Welsh Diarist of the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press, H. Milford. p. 4.
3. St Fagans: National History Museum - Cilewent Farmhouse. Accessed 5 May 2013]
4. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Rowland, Daniel (1713-1790), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
5.  "Curll, Edmund". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
6. 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.
7. Sambrook, James (2004). "Lloyd, Evan (1734–1776)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
8. Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. G. Woodfall. 1828. p. 98.
9. Walter Thomas Morgan. "Gwyn, Francis (1648?-1734), politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
10. Robert Stephen. "HANBURY family, of Pontypool industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
11. 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.
12. Jones, Evan David. "Lloyd, Thomas (1673?-1734), cleric and lexicologist". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 May 2008.
13. "LLOYD, Salusbury (d.1734), of Leadbrook, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
14. Thomas Mardy Rees. "Beadles, Elisha (1670-1734), Quaker and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.