1734 in Wales
Introduction 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 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. *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. **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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