1837 in Wales

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1837 in Wales
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1837 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1837

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

Incumbents

January - John Frost becomes Mayor of Newport.
1 April - 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.
The Welsh Manuscripts Society is founded at Abergavenny.

14 March - Thomas Meyrick, politician (d. 1921)
26 May - Henry Hicks, geologist (d. 1899)
3 August - Lewis Pugh Pugh, politician (d. 1908)
5 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914)
6 September - Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher (d. 1884)
22 September - Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900)
26 December - Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929)
date unknown
- Octavius Vaughan Morgan, politician (d. 1896)
- William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)

19 February - Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, 80
26 August - Edward Jones (Bathafarn), a founder of the Wesleyan movement in Wales, ?59
27 September - William Pryce Cumby, Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard,^[1] 66

↑ "Pryce-Cumby, William, Captain, 1771-1837". nmm.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2010.

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