1832 in Wales

1832 in Wales

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1832 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland

Other events of 1832

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1832 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales — vacant
• Princess of Wales — vacant

Events

• 23 May — The Festiniog Railway Company is set up by Act of Parliament, making it, as of the 21st century, the world's oldest surviving statutory public railway company.
• In the UK general election, John Josiah Guest becomes the first MP for the new constituency of Merthyr Boroughs.
• At the Beaumaris eisteddfod, the title of Archdruid is used for the first time.
• The first temperance society in Wales is founded at Holyhead.
• Serious outbreak of cholera in Wales.
• Wrexham Infirmary is founded at the instigation of Thomas Taylor Griffith.
• New Cardiff Prison opens.
• Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, visit Wynnstay.
• Walter Coffin opens the "Rhondda No. 3" coal seam.

Arts and literature

New books

• Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) — Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth Neillduol
• Jedediah Richards — Addysg ac Amddiffyniad

Music

Births

• 5 January – Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler (d. 1891)
• 3 April – William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (d. 1878)
• 25 September – John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (d. 1887)
• 19 November – Benjamin Thomas Williams, lawyer and politician (d. 1890)
• 17 December – Thomas McKenny Hughes, geologist (d. 1917)
• date unknown – William Williams, veterinary surgeon (d. 1900)

Deaths

• 23 February – Owen Williams (MP), 67
• 13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
• 14 August – Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), poet, 63