1832 in the United Kingdom

none June 2020 1832 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1832 English cricket season Events from the year 1832 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – William IV Prime Minister – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (Whig) Foreign Secretary – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Home Secretary – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Secretary of War – Earl of Ripon Events 8 January – Bell's New Weekly Messenger (London) becomes the first known English newspaper to include a political cartoon.Today in History Metro London 2024-01-08 4 12 February – Second cholera pandemic begins to spread in London, starting from East London. It is officially declared over in early May but deaths continue. It will claim at least 3000 victims. In Liverpool, Kitty Wilkinson becomes the "Saint of the Slums"'Slum Saint' honoured with statue 4 February 2010 BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8499533.stm 9 April 2011 by promoting hygiene.Memoir of Kitty Wilkinson of Liverpool, 1786–1860 Herbert R. Rathbone H. Young & Sons 1927 22 March – The Preston Temperance Society is founded by Joseph Livesey, a pioneering organisation in the temperance movement and teetotalism.Gately Iain Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol https://archive.org/details/drinkculturalhis00gate limited 2009 Gotham Books New York 978-1-592-40464-3 248Temperance Society Preston Chronicle 1832-03-24 3 7 June – The Great Reform Act becomes law, abolishing most rotten boroughs and redistributing Parliamentary seats to newer urban centres of industry and commerce, while extending suffrage to male copyholders and leaseholders of rural property with a minimum annual value or renters of property in boroughs also with a minimum annual value (£10 in most cases).http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840 Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840 2007-09-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20070922055840/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840 22 September 2007 dead It is estimated that this raises the number of English voters from 400,000 to 650,000.Phillips John A. Charles Wetherell 1995 The Great Reform Act of 1832 and the Political Modernization of England American Historical Review 100 2 411–436 2169005 10.2307/2169005 A separate husting is required for every 600 voters.Matthew Roberts Political Movements in Urban England, 1832–1914 London Bloomsbury Publishing 2008 Similar legislation is passed for Scotland (the Scottish Reform Act)Notable Dates in History – From the Scottish Reform Bill (1832) to the outbreak of the First World War (1914) http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-f.htm The Flag in the Wind The Scots Independent 2014-07-29 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20141205083554/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-f.htm 5 December 2014 and Ireland (An Act to Amend the Representation of the People of Ireland, the Irish Reform Act).The law journal for the year 1832–1949 https://books.google.com/books?id=-3cDAAAAQAAJ Abridgment of statutes X 1832 E. B. Ince 4 July – University of Durham is founded by Act of Parliament at the instigation of the authorities of the city's cathedral. 16 July – "The Bad Day": 31 sixareens, the traditional fishing craft of Shetland, are lost in a storm with 105 crew. 19 July – Anatomy Act provides for licensing and inspection of anatomists, and for unclaimed corpses from public institutions to be available for their dissection. 1 August – Prescription Act reforms the law related to easements and establishes the right of ancient lights. 7 August – William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury because of his opposition to the Great Reform Act.Assault on His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury The Times London 1832-08-10 3 14927James Garrard Archbishop Howley 1828–1848 Farnham Ashgate 2004 The Archbishops of Canterbury Series 978-1-4724-5133-0 47–8 11–14 August – The body of James Cook, a bookbinder executed the previous day for the murder of his creditor Paas, is hung in irons on a gibbet in Leicester, the last time this practice is carried out.http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng614.htm The Newgate Calendar James Cook 2011-02-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20101230175427/http://exclassics.com/newgate/ng614.htm 30 December 2010 live 1 September – Reformer Joseph Livesey draws up the first public pledge of teetotalism in Preston, Lancashire.https://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2008/09/30/blue_plaques_preston.shtml Blue plaques in Preston BBC 2008 2013-05-07 8 December–8 January 1833 – General election, the first under the new franchise, gives the Whigs a decisive majority.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 257–258 0-7126-5616-2 Commissioners of Woods and Forests become the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, taking over the Office of Works (as its Works Department) and beginning to manage the hereditary land revenues of the Crown in Scotland formerly controlled by the Barons of the Exchequer, under terms of this year's Crown Lands (Scotland) Act.R. B. Pugh Ralph Pugh The Crown Estate – An Historical Essay London Crown Estate 1960 Publications Dr James Kay's study The moral and physical condition of the working-class employed in the cotton manufacture on Manchester. Sir Walter Scott's last Waverley novels Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous, published as the 4th series of Tales of My Landlord 'collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham'. Births 16 January – Sister Dora, born Dorothy Pattison, Anglican nun and nurse (died 1878) 27 January – Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, children's author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and portrait photographer (died 1898) 29 January – Boston Corbett, Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth (died after 1888, perhaps 1894) 12 March – Charles Boycott, land agent, origin of the word "boycott" (died 1897) 14 May – Charles Peace, criminal (hanged 1879) 17 June – Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist (died 1919) 30 September – Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, field marshal (died 1914) 2 October – Edward Burnett Tylor, anthropologist (died 1917) 28 November – Leslie Stephen, writer and critic (died 1904) Deaths 13 January – Thomas Lord, cricketer and founder of Lord's Cricket Ground (born 1755) 27 January – Andrew Bell, Scottish educationist and Anglican priest (born 1753) 10 March – Muzio Clementi, Roman pianist, composer and piano manufacturer (born 1752) 6 June – Jeremy Bentham, philosopher (born 1748) 23 June – Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, geologist (born 1761) 26 August – Robert Radcliffe, cricketer (born 1797) 21 September – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet (born 1771) References 1832 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1832 by country Category:1832 in Europe Category:1830s in the United Kingdom