1837 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1837 to Wales and its people.
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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.
- 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.[1]
- 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 take Caernarvon Boroughs for the Tories.
- date unknown
- Chartist riots in Montgomeryshire.[2]
- George Rowland Edwards becomes secretary to Lord Clive.
- Major reconstruction of Penrhyn Castle in north Wales by Thomas Hopper (architect) is largely completed.[3]
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
- John Griffiths, mathematician (d. 1916)
- 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,[4] 66
- 20 November – John Edward Madocks, MP, 51[5]
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References
- "Argoed Hall". Welsh coal mines. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- Thomas Rowland Roberts (1908). Eminent Welshmen: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present. Educational Publishing Company. p. 73.
- Port, M. H. (2004). "Hopper, Thomas (1776–1856)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13763. Retrieved 23 January 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- "Pryce-Cumby, William, Captain, 1771-1837". nmm.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
- Archaeologia Cambrensis. W. Pickering. 1904. p. 170.
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