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1837 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1837 to Wales and its people.

Contents

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.

    • 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, 66

    • References

    1837 in Wales Wikipedia
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