1837 in Wales

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

← 1836 1835 1834 1833 1832 1837 in Wales → 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1837 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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.
• 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.[1]
• 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.[2]
  • George Rowland Edwards becomes secretary to Lord Clive.
  • Major reconstruction of Penrhyn Castle in north Wales by Thomas Hopper (architect) is largely completed.[3]

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
  • John Griffiths, mathematician (d. 1916)
  • Octavius Vaughan Morgan, politician (d. 1896)
  • William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)

Deaths

• 19 February – Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, 80
• 27 September – William Pryce Cumby, Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard,[4] 66
• 20 November – John Edward Madocks, MP, 51[5]

References

1. "Argoed Hall". Welsh coal mines. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
2. Thomas Rowland Roberts (1908). Eminent Welshmen: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present. Educational Publishing Company. p. 73.
3. Port, M. H. (2004). "Hopper, Thomas (1776–1856)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13763. Retrieved 23 January 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
4. "Pryce-Cumby, William, Captain, 1771-1837". nmm.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
5. Archaeologia Cambrensis. W. Pickering. 1904. p. 170.