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 Anglesey Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby 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 Westminster Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson
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, 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 Neillduol 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) 3 April – William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (d. 1878) 25 September – John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (d. 1887) 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), 67 16 July – Jemima Nicholas, heroine, 82 14 August – Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), poet, 63 18 November – William Howels or Howells, evangelical preacher, 54
See also 1832 in Ireland
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