1837 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1837 This article describes the significance of the year 1837 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of AngleseyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williamshttps://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300006802-penpont-including-attached-conservatory-and-rear-service-ranges-trallong#.YakSuNDP3cs Penpont including attached conservatory and rear service ranges British Listed Buildings 2 December 2021Edwin 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 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de EresbyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell 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 WestminsterOld Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders not known William Retlaw Williams "Old Wales" Office 1907 3 106 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury LeighAmy Audrey Locke The Hanbury Family Arthur L. Humphreys 1916 147 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powiss-POWY-HER-1674 Herbert family (earls of Powis) Evan David Jones 1959 30 November 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st BaronetThorne R.G. John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 History of Parliament 27 March 2020 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron RodneyJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115William Stockdale Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom 1833 86 Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305 Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston Bishop of St Asaph – William CareyCarey, William (1769-1846)The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – John JenkinsonThomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3 George III (King of Great Britain) University Press 1967 434Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 The Royal Society 30 October 2020 Events 1 April – John Josiah Guest is elected the first chairman of the Merthyr "board of guardians", formed to obtain an act of Parliament for the incorporation of Merthyr.s-GUES-DOW-1722 Guest family, iron-masters, coal owners, etc. Watkin William Price 1959 3 December 2021 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/deathrolls/Argoed_hall_colliery.htm Argoed Hall Welsh coal mines 8 April 2020 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 win Caernarvon Boroughs for the Tories. date unknown Chartist riots in Montgomeryshire.Thomas Rowland Roberts Eminent Welshmen: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present https://archive.org/details/eminentwelshmens01robeuoft 1908 Educational Publishing Company 73 George Rowland Edwards becomes secretary to Lord Clive. Major reconstruction of Penrhyn Castle in north Wales by Thomas Hopper (architect) is largely completed.M. H. Port Hopper, Thomas (1776–1856) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13763 2013-01-23 10.1093/ref:odnb/13763 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 Waless-CAMP-CON-1796 Campbell (Morrieson), Eliza Constantia (1796-1864), author Robert Thomas Jenkins 31 May 2024 Music Robert Edwards – Caersalem (hymn tune), published in Peroriaeth Hyfryds-EDWA-ROB-1796 Edwards, Robert (1796-1862), musician Robert David Griffith 1959 3 December 2021 Births 14 March – Thomas Meyrick, politician (d. 1921)Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 2, p. 2676 26 May – Henry Hicks, geologist (d. 1899)Hicks, Henry Bonney Thomas George Thomas George Bonney II 419–420 3 August – Lewis Pugh Pugh, politician (d. 1908) 5 August – William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914)47974 Lewis, William Thomas, first Baron Merthyr (1837–1914) John Williams 2004 6 September – Henry Thomas Edwards, Dean of Bangor (d. 1884)s-EDWA-THO-1837 Edwards, Henry Thomas (1837-1884), dean of Bangor Robert Thomas Jenkins 31 May 2024 22 September – Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900)Evans Rev. Trebor Lloyd Edwards, Lewis (1809-1887) s-EDWA-LEW-1809 6 November 2014 26 December – Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929)Dawkins, William Boyd 7 873 date unknown John Griffiths, mathematician (d. 1916) Octavius Vaughan Morgan, politician (d. 1896)s-MORG-VAU-1831 Morgan, Sir Walter Vaughan Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 3 December 2021 William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906) Deaths 31 January – John Rolls of The Hendre, English-born landowner, 60A historical tour through Monmouthshire 1904 Davies and co. https://books.google.com/books?id=ofFBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5-IA7 William Coxe 2 Edwin Davies 23 June 2012 v-vi 19 February – Thomas Burgess, former Bishop of St David's, 80s-BURG-THO-1756 Burgess, Thomas (1756-1837), bishop Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 1959 3 December 2021 27 September – William Pryce Cumby, Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard, 66 http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/archive/catalogue/record.cfm?ID=PRY https://web.archive.org/web/20110608074401/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/archive/catalogue/record.cfm?ID=PRY 8 June 2011 Pryce-Cumby, William, Captain, 1771-1837 nmm.ac.uk 3 July 2010 20 November – John Edward Madocks, MP, 51Archaeologia Cambrensis https://archive.org/details/archaeologiacam11unkngoog 1904 W. Pickering 170 See also 1837 in Ireland References 1837 in Wales Wales Wales Category:1837 in Europe Category:1830s in Wales