1837 in Wales
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This article describes the significance of the year 1837 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 Penry Williams[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby[7]
- 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[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Capel Hanbury Leigh[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[14][2][15]
Events
- 1 April â John Josiah Guest is elected the first chairman of the Merthyr "board of guardians", formed to obtain an act of Parliament for the incorporation of Merthyr.[24]
- 10 May â 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.[25]
- July /August â 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 win Caernarvon Boroughs for the Tories.
- date unknown
- Chartist riots in Montgomeryshire.[26]
- George Rowland Edwards becomes secretary to Lord Clive.
- Major reconstruction of Penrhyn Castle in north Wales by Thomas Hopper (architect) is largely completed.[27]
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
English language
- Charles James Apperley â The Chace, the Road, and the Turf
- Eliza Constantia Campbell â Tales about Wales[28]
Music
Births
- 14 March â Thomas Meyrick, politician (d. 1921)[30]
- 26 May â Henry Hicks, geologist (d. 1899)[31]
- 3 August â Lewis Pugh Pugh, politician (d. 1908)
- 5 August â William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914)[32]
- 6 September â Henry Thomas Edwards, Dean of Bangor (d. 1884)[33]
- 22 September â Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900)[34]
- 26 December â Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929)[35]
- date unknown
- John Griffiths, mathematician (d. 1916)
- Octavius Vaughan Morgan, politician (d. 1896)[36]
- William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)
Deaths
- 31 January â John Rolls of The Hendre, English-born landowner, 60[37]
- 19 February â Thomas Burgess, former Bishop of St David's, 80[38]
- 27 September â William Pryce Cumby, Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard, 66[39]
- 20 November â John Edward Madocks, MP, 51[40]
