1734 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1734 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales – 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 ; Charles Cecil
- 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 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
- 15 April – Evan Lloyd, poet
- 3 July – Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke
- 24 October – Thomas Henry, apothecary
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?