1837 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1837 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Events
- January - John FrostJohn Frost (Chartist)John Frost was a prominent Welsh leader of the British Chartist movement in the Newport Rising....
becomes Mayor of NewportNewportNewport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent...
. - April 1 - John Josiah GuestJohn Josiah GuestSir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet, known as John Josiah Guest, was a Welsh engineer and entrepreneur.-Life:Born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, as the son of Thomas Guest, a partner in the Dowlais Iron Company...
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 MontgomeryshireMontgomeryshireMontgomeryshire, also known as Maldwyn is one of thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales. Montgomeryshire is still used as a vice-county for wildlife recording...
. - George Rowland Edwards becomes secretary to Lord Clive.
- In the United Kingdom general electionUnited Kingdom general election, 1837The 1837 United Kingdom general election saw Robert Peel's Conservatives close further on the position of the Whigs, who won their fourth election of the decade....
:- Sir John Edwards, 1st BaronetSir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, of GarthSir John Edwards, 1st Baronet , served as Member of Parliament for Montgomery from 8th April 1833 to 23rd June 1841 and the Edwards Baronetcy, of Garth in the County of Montgomery, was created for him in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1838...
, defeats Panton Corbett to win Montgomery for the Liberals for a second time. - Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-EarlEdwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-EarlEdwin Richard Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl KP, FRS was a British Peer. He was styled Viscount Adare from 1824 to 1850....
joins Christopher Rice Mansel TalbotChristopher Rice Mansel TalbotChristopher Rice Mansel Talbot FRS was a landowner, industrialist and Liberal politician. He developed his estate at Margam near Swansea as an extensive ironworks, served by railways and a port, which was re-named Port Talbot.-Early life:Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot was born at Penrice, Swansea,...
as MP for Glamorganshire. - Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th BaronetSir Stephen Glynne, 9th BaronetSir Stephen Richard Glynne, 9th Baronet was a Welsh landowner and Conservative Party politician. He is principally remembered as an assiduous antiquary and student of British church architecture...
, future brother-in-law of Gladstone, becomes MP for Flintshire. - William Bulkeley HughesWilliam Bulkeley HughesWilliam Bulkeley Hughes was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons as a Conservative from 1837 to 1859, and as a Liberal from 1865 to 1882....
defeats Charles Henry Paget to take Caernarvon Boroughs for the Tories.
- Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet
Arts and literature
- Henry Mark AnthonyHenry Mark AnthonyHenry Mark Anthony was an English landscape artist, often favourably compared to John Constable by critics...
exhibits A view on the Rhaidha [sic] Glamorganshire at the Royal Academy.
New books
- Charles James ApperleyCharles James ApperleyCharles James Apperley , English sportsman and sporting writer, better known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he published his works on the chase and on the turf, was born at Plasgronow, near Wrexham, in Denbighshire, North Wales in 1777.- Youth :Charles James Apperley was the second son of...
- The Chace, the Road, and the Turf - Eliza Constantia Campbell - Tales about Wales
Births
- August 5 - William Lewis, 1st Baron MerthyrWilliam Lewis, 1st Baron MerthyrWilliam Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr , known as Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet, from 1896 to 1911, was a Welsh coal mining magnate.Lewis was the son of Thomas William Lewis, an engineer, of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire...
, industrialist (d. 1914) - September 6 - Henry Thomas EdwardsHenry Thomas EdwardsHenry Thomas Edwards was a Welsh preacher.He was born at Llan-ym-Mawddwy, Merioneth, where his father was vicar. He was educated at Westminster and at Jesus College, Oxford , and after teaching for two years at Llandovery went to Llangollen as his father's curate.He became vicar of Aberdare in...
, preacher (d. 1884) - September 22 - Thomas Charles EdwardsThomas Charles EdwardsThomas Charles-Edwards was a Welsh minister, writer and academic who was the first Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth....
, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900) - December 26 - Sir William Boyd DawkinsWilliam Boyd DawkinsProfessor Sir William Boyd Dawkins, FRS, KBE was a British geologist and archaeologist. He was a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Curator of the Manchester Museum and Professor of Geology at Owens College, Manchester. He is noted for his research on fossils and the antiquity of man...
, geologist (d. 1929) - date unknown - William Bowen RowlandsWilliam Bowen RowlandsWilliam Bowen Rowlands , was a British politician and Member of Parliament.He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating on 22 March 1854 at the age of 18...
, politician (d. 1906)
Deaths
- February 19 - Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, 80
- August 26 - Edward Jones (Bathafarn), a founder of the Wesleyan movement in Wales, ?59