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)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 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
See also 1833 in Ireland
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