# 1833 in Wales

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

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
* Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
* Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey
* Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson

## 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.
* 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.
* 29 July – Lady Charlotte Bertie marries John Josiah Guest.
* Autumn – The community of Gomer, Ohio, is founded in the United States by Welsh settlers.
* date unknown
** Isaac Williams becomes Dean of Trinity College, Oxford.
** 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.

## Arts and literature

* Mold cape discovered.

### New books

* Sir Harford Jones Brydges – 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)
* 23 January – Sir Lewis Morris, poet (d. 1907)
* 29 January – David John, Mormon leader (d. 1908 in Utah)
* February – Jacob Thomas, VC recipient (d. 1911)
* 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)

## Deaths

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