This article is about the particular significance of the year 1734 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Sherlock (until 8 November); Charles Cecil (from 15 January) Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett
Events
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. 30 March – First entry in the diary of William Bulkeley. date unknown Original construction (in stone) of Cilewent Farmhouse, now located at St Fagans National History Museum.St Fagans: National History Museum - Cilewent Farmhouse . Accessed 5 May 2013 Daniel Rowland marries Eleanor Davies of Caer-llugest and is ordained a deacon.
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
Welsh language Simon Thomas – Athrawiaethau Difinyddawl
Births 20 January – Robert Morris, Welsh-born American merchant (died 1806) 15 April – Evan Lloyd, poet (died 1776) 3 July – Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (died 1794) 24 October – Thomas Henry, apothecary (died 1816)
Deaths 14 June Francis Gwyn, politician, 85 John Hanbury, industrialist, 70? 13 July – Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63 October – Thomas Lloyd, lexicographer, 61? 26 December – Salusbury Lloyd, politician, date unknown – Elisha Beadles, South Wales-based Quaker leader, 74?
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