1832 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1832 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â William Edward Powell[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[12][2][13]
Events
- 13 January â The Welshman (newspaper) is first published in Carmarthen.
- May â Second cholera pandemic reaches Wales, at Flint.
- 23 May â 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.
- August - Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, visit Wynnstay.
- 28 August - At the Beaumaris eisteddfod,[22] the title of Archdruid is used for the first time.
- 8 Decemberâ8 January 1833 â In the 1832 United Kingdom general election, the first following the Reform Act 1832, John Josiah Guest becomes the first MP for the new constituency of Merthyr Boroughs.
- The first temperance society in Wales is founded at Holyhead.
- Wrexham Infirmary is founded at the instigation of Thomas Taylor Griffith.
- New Cardiff Prison opens.
- Walter Coffin opens the "Rhondda No. 3" coal seam.
Arts and literature
New books
- Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) â Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth Neillduol[23]
- Jedediah Richards â Addysg ac Amddiffyniad
Music
Births
- 5 January â Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler (d. 1891)
- 1 February â John Bryant, harpist (d. 1926)[24]
- 3 April â William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (d. 1878)
- 25 September â John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (d. 1887)[25]
- 4 November â James James (Iago ap Ieuan), harpist and composer (d. 1902)
- 19 November â Benjamin Thomas Williams, lawyer and politician (d. 1890)
- 17 December â Thomas McKenny Hughes, geologist (d. 1917)
- date unknown â William Williams, veterinary surgeon (d. 1900)
Deaths
- 23 February â Owen Williams (MP), 67[26]
- 16 July â Jemima Nicholas, heroine, 82[27]
- 14 August â Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), poet, 63
- 18 November â William Howels or Howells, evangelical preacher, 54[28]
