1837 in Wales

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

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.^[1]

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,^[2] 66

References

1. Port, M. H. (2004). "Hopper, Thomas (1776–1856)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13763. Retrieved 2013-01-23. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
2. "Pryce-Cumby, William, Captain, 1771-1837". nmm.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2010.