1837 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1837 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[14][2][15]
Events
- 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.[24]
- 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.[25]
- 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.[26]
- George Rowland Edwards becomes secretary to Lord Clive.
- Major reconstruction of Penrhyn Castle in north Wales by Thomas Hopper (architect) is largely completed.[27]
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
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)[29]
- 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[30]
- 26 December – Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929)
- date unknown
- John Griffiths, mathematician (d. 1916)
- Octavius Vaughan Morgan, politician (d. 1896)[31]
- William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)
Deaths
- 31 January – John Rolls of The Hendre, English-born landowner, 60[32]
- 19 February – Thomas Burgess, former Bishop of St David's, 80[33]
- 27 September – William Pryce Cumby, Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard,[34] 66
- 20 November – John Edward Madocks, MP, 51[35]
See also
References
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- J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- "Penpont including attached conservatory and rear service ranges". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. "Old Wales" Office. 3: 106. 1907.
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 147.
- Evan David Jones (1959). "Herbert family (earls of Powis)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
- William Stockdale (1833). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. p. 86.
- Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
- Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
- Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
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