1832 in Wales

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

← 1831 1830 1829 1828 1827 1832 in Wales → 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1832 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 13 January — The Welshman (newspaper) is first published in Carmarthen.
• May — Second cholera pandemic reaches Wales, at Flint.
• 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.
• August - Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, visit Wynnstay.
• 28 August - At the Beaumaris eisteddfod,[1] the title of Archdruid is used for the first time.
• 8 December–8 January 1833 — 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) — Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth Neillduol[2]
• Jedediah Richards — Addysg ac Amddiffyniad

Music

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)[3]
• 4 November – James James (Iago ap Ieuan), harpist and composer (d. 1902)
• 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[4]
• 13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
• 16 July – Jemima Nicholas, heroine, 82[5]
• 14 August – Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), poet, 63

References

1. William Jones (1839). The Gwyneddion for 1832: containing the prize poems, &c. of the Beaumaris eisteddfod and North Wales literary society, ed. by W. Jones. p. 1.
2. William Rushton (1832). Amddiffyniad o brynedigaeth neillduol: yn cynnwys cynghaws, wrth air Duw, ar athrawiaethau y diweddar Mr. Fuller, mewn perthynas i iawn Crist : mewn pedwar llythyr at weinidog o'r Bedyddwyr. Argraffwyd gan J. Jones dros yr awdwr.
3. Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. Herald Office. p. 397.
4. John Burke (1835). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank, But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. H. Colburn. p. 635.
5. Edwyn Henry Stuart Jones (1950). The last invasion of Britain. University of Wales Press. p. 105.