1837 in Wales explained

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

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams^{[5] [6]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell^[2]
  • • Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^{[14] [2] [15]}
• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^{[16] [17]}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey^[18]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson^{[19] [20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 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.^[23]
• 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.^[24]
• 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.^[25]
  • George Rowland Edwards becomes secretary to Lord Clive.
  • Major reconstruction of Penrhyn Castle in north Wales by Thomas Hopper (architect) is largely completed.^[26]

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

English language

• Charles James Apperley – The Chace, the Road, and the Turf
• Eliza Constantia Campbell – Tales about Wales^[27]

Music

• Robert Edwards – Caersalem (hymn tune), published in Peroriaeth Hyfryd^[28]

Births

• 14 March – Thomas Meyrick, politician (d. 1921)^[29]
• 26 May – Henry Hicks, geologist (d. 1899)^[30]
• 3 August – Lewis Pugh Pugh, politician (d. 1908)
• 5 August – William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914)^[31]
• 6 September – Henry Thomas Edwards, Dean of Bangor (d. 1884)^[32]
• 22 September – Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900^[33]
• 26 December – Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929)^[34]
• date unknown
  • John Griffiths, mathematician (d. 1916)
  • Octavius Vaughan Morgan, politician (d. 1896)^[35]
  • William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)

Deaths

• 31 January – John Rolls of The Hendre, English-born landowner, 60^[36]
• 19 February – Thomas Burgess, former Bishop of St David's, 80^[37]
• 27 September – William Pryce Cumby, Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard,^[38] 66
• 20 November – John Edward Madocks, MP, 51^[39]

See also

• 1837 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Web site: Penpont including attached conservatory and rear service ranges. British Listed Buildings. 2 December 2021.
6. Book: Edwin Poole. The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. 1886. 378.
7. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
8. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
9. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
10. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
11. Book: Amy Audrey Locke. The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. 1916. 147.
12. s-POWY-HER-1674. Herbert family (earls of Powis). Evan David Jones. 1959. 30 November 2021.
13. Web site: Thorne . R.G. . John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire . History of Parliament . 27 March 2020.
14. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
15. Book: William Stockdale. Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. 1833. 86.
16. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
17. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
18. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
19. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
20. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
21. Book: The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. George III (King of Great Britain). University Press. 1967. 434.
22. Web site: Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas . The Royal Society . 30 October 2020.
23. s-GUES-DOW-1722. Guest family, iron-masters, coal owners, etc.. Watkin William Price. 1959. 3 December 2021.
24. Web site: Argoed Hall. Welsh coal mines. 8 April 2020.
25. Book: Thomas Rowland Roberts. Eminent Welshmen: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present. 1908. Educational Publishing Company. 73.
26. Web site: M. H.. Port. Hopper, Thomas (1776–1856). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. 2013-01-23. 10.1093/ref:odnb/13763.
27. s-CAMP-CON-1796. Campbell (Morrieson), Eliza Constantia (1796-1864), author. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 31 May 2024.
28. s-EDWA-ROB-1796. Edwards, Robert (1796-1862), musician. Robert David Griffith. 1959. 3 December 2021.
29. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 2, p. 2676
30. Hicks, Henry . Bonney . Thomas George . Thomas George Bonney . II . 419–420.
31. 47974 . Lewis, William Thomas, first Baron Merthyr (1837–1914). John. Williams. 2004.
32. s-EDWA-THO-1837. Edwards, Henry Thomas (1837-1884), dean of Bangor. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 31 May 2024.
33. Evans. Rev. Trebor Lloyd. Edwards, Lewis (1809-1887). s-EDWA-LEW-1809. 6 November 2014.
34. Dawkins, William Boyd. 7. 873.
35. s-MORG-VAU-1831. Morgan, Sir Walter Vaughan. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 1959. 3 December 2021.
36. Book: A historical tour through Monmouthshire. 1904. Davies and co.. William Coxe. 2. Edwin Davies. 23 June 2012. v-vi.
37. s-BURG-THO-1756. Burgess, Thomas (1756-1837), bishop. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 1959. 3 December 2021.
38. Web site: Pryce-Cumby, William, Captain, 1771-1837 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110608074401/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/archive/catalogue/record.cfm?ID=PRY. 8 June 2011 . nmm.ac.uk . 3 July 2010.
39. Book: Archaeologia Cambrensis. 1904. W. Pickering. 170.