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1832
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1832 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 – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of BeaufortEdwin 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 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 292 Thomas 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 Jenkinson Thomas 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
13 January — The Welshman (newspaper) is first published in Carmarthen.
May — Second cholera pandemic reaches Wales, at Flint.
23 May — The Festiniog Railway Company is set up by an act of Parliament, making it, as of the 21st century, the world's oldest surviving statutory public railway company.
August - Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, visit Wynnstay.
28 August - At the Beaumaris eisteddfod,William Jones The Gwyneddion for 1832: containing the prize poems, &c. of the Beaumaris eisteddfod and North Wales literary society, ed. by W. Jones https://books.google.com/books?id=RWYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 1839 1 the title of Archdruid is used for the first time.
8 December–8 January 1833 — In the 1832 United Kingdom general election, the first following the Reform Act 1832, John Josiah Guest becomes the first MP for the new constituency of Merthyr Boroughs.
The first temperance society in Wales is founded at Holyhead.
Wrexham Infirmary is founded at the instigation of Thomas Taylor Griffith.
New Cardiff Prison opens.
Walter Coffin opens the "Rhondda No. 3" coal seam.
Arts and literature
New books
Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) — Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth NeillduolWilliam Rushton Amddiffyniad o brynedigaeth neillduol: yn cynnwys cynghaws, wrth air Duw, ar athrawiaethau y diweddar Mr. Fuller, mewn perthynas i iawn Crist : mewn pedwar llythyr at weinidog o'r Bedyddwyr https://books.google.com/books?id=w6sxtwAACAAJ 1832 Argraffwyd gan J. Jones dros yr awdwr
Jedediah Richards — Addysg ac Amddiffyniad
Music
Births
5 January – Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler (d. 1891)
1 February – John Bryant, harpist (d. 1926)BRYANT, JOHN (Alawydd Glan Tâf; 1832 - 1926), harpist Dictionary of Welsh Biography https://biography.wales/article/s-BRYA-JOH-1832 2026-04-30 biography.wales
3 April – William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (d. 1878)
25 September – John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (d. 1887)Thomas Mardy Rees Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index https://books.google.com/books?id=sXM_AQAAMAAJ 1908 Herald Office 397
4 November – James James (Iago ap Ieuan), harpist and composer (d. 1902)
19 November – Benjamin Thomas Williams, lawyer and politician (d. 1890)
17 December – Thomas McKenny Hughes, geologist (d. 1917)
date unknown – William Williams, veterinary surgeon (d. 1900)
Deaths
23 February – Owen Williams (MP), 67John Burke A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank, But Uninvested with Heritable Honours https://books.google.com/books?id=jJFIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA635 1835 H. Colburn 635
16 July – Jemima Nicholas, heroine, 82Edwyn Henry Stuart Jones The last invasion of Britain https://books.google.com/books?id=yzNIAAAAMAAJ 1950 University of Wales Press 105
14 August – Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), poet, 63
18 November – William Howels or Howells, evangelical preacher, 54Howells, William 28
See also
1832 in Ireland
References
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