1837 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use Welsh English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in Wales header This article describes the significance of the year 1837 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell[2]
- 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[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[14][2][15]
- Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell[16][17]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston[18]
- Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey[19][20][18]
- Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson[18][21][22][23]
Events
- 1 April – John Josiah Guest is elected the first chairman of the Merthyr "board of guardians", formed to obtain an act of Parliament for the incorporation of Merthyr.[24]
- 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.[25]
- July /August – In the United Kingdom general election:
- Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, defeats Panton Corbett to win Montgomery for the Liberals for a second time.
- Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl joins Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot as MP for Glamorganshire.
- Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, future brother-in-law of Gladstone, becomes MP for Flintshire.
- William Bulkeley Hughes defeats Charles Henry Paget to win Caernarvon Boroughs for the Tories.
- date unknown
- Chartist riots in Montgomeryshire.[26]
- George Rowland Edwards becomes secretary to Lord Clive.
- Major reconstruction of Penrhyn Castle in north Wales by Thomas Hopper (architect) is largely completed.[27]
Arts and literature
- Henry Mark Anthony exhibits A view on the Rhaidha [sic] Glamorganshire at the Royal Academy.
- The Welsh Manuscripts Society is founded at Abergavenny.
New books
English language
- Charles James Apperley – The Chace, the Road, and the Turf
- Eliza Constantia Campbell – Tales about Wales[28]
Music
- Robert Edwards – Caersalem (hymn tune), published in Peroriaeth Hyfryd[29]
Births
- 14 March – Thomas Meyrick, politician (d. 1921)[30]
- 26 May – Henry Hicks, geologist (d. 1899)[31]
- 3 August – Lewis Pugh Pugh, politician (d. 1908)
- 5 August – William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914)[32]
- 6 September – Henry Thomas Edwards, Dean of Bangor (d. 1884)[33]
- 22 September – Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900)[34]
- 26 December – Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929)[35]
- date unknown
- John Griffiths, mathematician (d. 1916)
- Octavius Vaughan Morgan, politician (d. 1896)[36]
- William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)
Deaths
- 31 January – John Rolls of The Hendre, English-born landowner, 60[37]
- 19 February – Thomas Burgess, former Bishop of St David's, 80[38]
- 27 September – William Pryce Cumby, Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard, 66[39]
- 20 November – John Edward Madocks, MP, 51[40]
See also
References
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