1837 in Wales

1837 in Wales

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.
*April 1 - 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.

Arts and literature

*Henry Mark Anthony exhibits "A view on the Rhaidha" [sic] "Glamorganshire" at the Royal Academy.

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

*August 5 - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914)
*September 6 - Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher (d. 1884)
*September 22 - Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900)
*December 26 - Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929)
*"date unknown" - William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)

Deaths

*February 19 - Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, 80


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