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 – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams ^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh ^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis ^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet ^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney ^{[14] [2] [15]}

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell ^{[16] [17]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston ^[18]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey ^{[19] [20] [18]}
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson ^{[18] [21] [22] [23]}

Events

• 1 April – 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 – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire. ^[25]
• July /August – 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 – The Chace, the Road, and the Turf
• Eliza Constantia Campbell – Tales about Wales ^[28]

Music

• Robert Edwards – Caersalem (hymn tune), published in Peroriaeth Hyfryd ^[29]

Births

• 14 March – Thomas Meyrick, politician (d. 1921) ^[30]
• 26 May – Henry Hicks, geologist (d. 1899) ^[31]
• 3 August – Lewis Pugh Pugh, politician (d. 1908)
• 5 August – William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914) ^[32]
• 6 September – Henry Thomas Edwards, Dean of Bangor (d. 1884) ^[33]
• 22 September – Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900) ^[34]
• 26 December – 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 – John Rolls of The Hendre, English-born landowner, 60 ^[37]
• 19 February – Thomas Burgess, former Bishop of St David's, 80 ^[38]
• 27 September – William Pryce Cumby, Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard, 66 ^[39]
• 20 November – John Edward Madocks, MP, 51 ^[40]

See also

• 1837 in Ireland

References

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