1837 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1837 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

January - John Frost becomes Mayor of Newport.
April 1 - John Josiah Guest is elected the first chairman of the Merthyr "board of guardians", formed with the view of obtaining an act of Parliament for the incorporation of Merthyr.
Chartist riots in Montgomeryshire.
George Rowland Edwards becomes secretary to Lord Clive.
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 take Caernarvon Boroughs for the Tories.

Henry Mark Anthony exhibits A view on the Rhaidha [sic] Glamorganshire at the Royal Academy.

August 5 - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914)
September 6 - Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher (d. 1884)
September 22 - Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900)
December 26 - Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929)
date unknown - William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)