- 1837 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1837 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"Events
*January -
John Frost becomes Mayor ofNewport .
*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 inMontgomeryshire .
*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 joinsChristopher 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 defeatsCharles Henry Paget to takeCaernarvon Boroughs for the Tories.Arts and literature
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Henry Mark Anthony exhibits "A view on the Rhaidha" [sic] "Glamorganshire" at the Royal Academy.New books
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Charles James Apperley - "The Chace, the Road, and the Turf"
*Eliza Constantia Campbell - "Tales about Wales"Music
*Robert Edwards - "Caersalem" (
hymn tune )Births
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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 - SirWilliam Boyd Dawkins , geologist (d. 1929)
*"date unknown" -William Bowen Rowlands , politician (d. 1906)Deaths
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February 19 -Thomas Burgess , Bishop of St David's, 80
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