1837 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1837 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 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.
- Major reconstruction of Penrhyn Castle in north Wales by Thomas Hopper (architect) is largely completed.[1]
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
- Charles James Apperley - The Chace, the Road, and the Turf
- Eliza Constantia Campbell - Tales about Wales
Music
- Robert Edwards - Caersalem (hymn tune)
Births
- 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)
Deaths
- 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,[2] 66
References
- ↑ Port, M. H. (2004). "Hopper, Thomas (1776–1856)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13763. Retrieved 2013-01-23. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ "Pryce-Cumby, William, Captain, 1771-1837". nmm.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2010.