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 Timeline of Welsh history 1734 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley^[1][2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• 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^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Sherlock (until 8 November);^[4] Charles Cecil (from 15 January)^[5]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner^[7][8]
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett^[9]

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.^[10]
• 30 March – First entry in the diary of William Bulkeley.^[11]
• date unknown
  • Original construction (in stone) of Cilewent Farmhouse, now located at St Fagans National History Museum.^[12]
  • Daniel Rowland marries Eleanor Davies of Caer-llugest and is ordained a deacon.^[13]

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^[14]

Welsh language

• Simon Thomas – Athrawiaethau Difinyddawl^[15]

Births

• 20 January – Robert Morris, Welsh-born American merchant (died 1806)
• 15 April – Evan Lloyd, poet (died 1776)^[16]
• 3 July – Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (died 1794)^[17]
• 24 October – Thomas Henry, apothecary (died 1816)

Deaths

• 14 June
  • Francis Gwyn, politician, 85^[18]
  • John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?^[19]
• 13 July – Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63^[20]
• October – Thomas Lloyd, lexicographer, 61?^[21]
• 26 December – Salusbury Lloyd, politician,^[22]
• date unknown – Elisha Beadles, South Wales-based Quaker leader, 74?^[23]