# 1830s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1830–1839 to Wales and its people.

## Events

* 1830
* 1831
* 1832
* 1833
* 1834
* 1835
* 1836
* 1837
* 1838
* 1839

## Arts and literature
### New books

* Charles James Apperley - The Chace, the Road, and the Turf (1837)
* Eliza Constantia Campbell - Tales about Wales (1837)
* John Evans (I. D. Ffraid) - Hanes yr Iddewon (1831)
* Y Fwyalchen (poetry anthology) (1835)
* Felicia Hemans - Songs of the Affections (1830)
* Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - Athrawiaeth Bedydd (1830)
* Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court (1830)
* Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) - Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1 (1836)
* William Williams (Caledfryn) - Drych Barddonol (1839)

### Music

* Thomas Griffiths (Tau Gimel) - Casgliad o Hymnau (1830)
* David James - Myfyrdawd (1833)

## Births

* 1830
** 23 January - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (d. 1861)
** 22 April - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)
** May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic (d. 1904)
** 25 May - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (d. 1877)
* 1831
** 20 December - William T. Davies, Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1912)
* 1832
** 5 January - Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler (d. 1891)
** 3 April - William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (d. 1878)
** 25 September - John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (d. 1887)
* 1833
** date unknown
*** Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet (d. 1877)
*** James James, harpist and composer (d. 1902)
* 1834
** 16 October - Pryce Pryce-Jones, mail order entrepreneur (d. 1920)
** date unknown - William Thomas (Gwilym Marles), minister (d. 1879)
* 1836
** 30 January - Lewis Jones, Patagonian settler (d. 1904)
** 5 July - Evan Herber Evans, minister (d. 1896)
** 30 September - George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist (d. 1907)
** 6 October - Allen Raine, novelist (d. 1908)
** 20 October - Daniel Owen, novelist (d. 1895)
** date unknown - John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), poet (d. 1921)
* 1837
** 5 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914)
** 6 September - Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher (d. 1884)
** 22 September - Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900)
** 26 December - Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929)
** date unknown - William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)
* 1838
** date unknown - Charles Gresford Edmondes, clergyman and teacher (d. 1893)
* 1839
** 7 March - Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)
** 24 September - John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)
** date unknown - Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)

## Deaths

* 1830
** 26 June - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales (1762-1820)
* 1831
** 7 January - Edward "Celtic" Davies, author, 74
** 8 June - Sarah Siddons, actress (born 1755)
** 13 August - Dic Penderyn, labourer (executed) (born 1808)
* 1834
** 11 August - William Crawshay I, industrialist (b. 1764)
** 2 September - David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)
* 1835
** 13 May - John Nash, architect (b. 1752)
** 3 June - William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer (b. 1759)
** date unknown - Robert Davies (Robin Ddu o'r Glyn), poet (b. 1769)
* 1836
** 22 November - Peter Bailey Williams, antiquarian (b. 1763)
* 1837
** 19 February - Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, 80
* 1838
** 14 March - Wyndham Lewis, MP, 57
** 19 July - Christmas Evans, preacher (b. 1766)
** 26 December - Ann Hatton, novelist (b. 1764)
* 1839
** 16 May - Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis