1832 in the United Kingdom
- 1832 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1832 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
*Monarch - William IV of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Tory
Events
* 12 February - serious cholera epidemic begins in London from the East London. It is declared officially over in early May but deaths continue. It claimed at least 3000 victims .
* 4 June - The Great Reform Act becomes law, extending suffrage to the whole of the upper middle class, and abolishing the rotten boroughs. [cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1820-1840|accessdate=2007-09-12]
* 4 July - University of Durham founded, the first in England since 1209.
* December - General election, the first under the new system of voting, gives the Whigs a decisive majority.[cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 257-258|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2] ]Publications
* Walter Scott's novels "Count Robert of Paris" and "Castle Dangerous".
Births
* 27 January - Lewis Carroll, author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer (died 1898)
* 12 March - Charles Boycott, land agent, origin of the word "boycott" (died 1897)
* 14 May - Charles Peace, criminal (died 1879)
* 17 June - Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist (died 1919)
* 30 September - Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, field marshal (died 1914)
* 2 October - Edward Burnett Tylor, anthropologist (died 1917)
* 28 November - Leslie Stephen, writer and critic (died 1904)
Deaths
* 13 January - Thomas Lord, cricketer and founder of Lord's Cricket Ground (born 1755)
* 27 January - Andrew Bell, educationist and priest (born 1753)
* 6 June - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher (born 1748)
* 23 June - James Hall, geologist (born 1761)
* 21 September - Walter Scott, historical novelist and poet (born 1771)
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