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1832 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1832 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales — vacant
  • Princess of Wales — vacant

    • Events

  • 23 May — 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.
  • In the UK general election, John Josiah Guest becomes the first MP for the new constituency of Merthyr Boroughs.
  • At the Beaumaris eisteddfod, the title of Archdruid is used for the first time.
  • The first temperance society in Wales is founded at Holyhead.
  • Serious outbreak of cholera in Wales.
  • Wrexham Infirmary is founded at the instigation of Thomas Taylor Griffith.
  • New Cardiff Prison opens.
  • Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, visit Wynnstay.
  • Walter Coffin opens the "Rhondda No. 3" coal seam.

    • New books

  • Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) — Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth Neillduol
  • Jedediah Richards — Addysg ac Amddiffyniad

    • Births

  • 5 January – Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler (d. 1891)
  • 3 April – William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (d. 1878)
  • 25 September – John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (d. 1887)
  • 19 November – Benjamin Thomas Williams, lawyer and politician (d. 1890)
  • 17 December – Thomas McKenny Hughes, geologist (d. 1917)
  • date unknown – William Williams, veterinary surgeon (d. 1900)

    • Deaths

  • 23 February – Owen Williams (MP), 67
  • 13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
  • July – Jemima Nicholas, heroine, c.82
  • 14 August – Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), poet, 63

    • References

    1832 in Wales Wikipedia
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