This article describes the significance of the year 1837 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams 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 Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh 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 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. 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire. 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. George Rowland Edwards becomes secretary to Lord Clive. Major reconstruction of Penrhyn Castle in north Wales by Thomas Hopper (architect) is largely completed.
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
Music Robert Edwards – Caersalem (hymn tune), published in Peroriaeth Hyfryd
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) 3 August – Lewis Pugh Pugh, politician (d. 1908) 5 August – William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist (d. 1914) 6 September – Henry Thomas Edwards, Dean of Bangor (d. 1884) 22 September – Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales (d. 1900) 26 December – Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (d. 1929) date unknown John Griffiths, mathematician (d. 1916) Octavius Vaughan Morgan, politician (d. 1896) William Bowen Rowlands, politician (d. 1906)
Deaths 31 January – John Rolls of The Hendre, English-born landowner, 60 19 February – Thomas Burgess, former Bishop of St David's, 80 27 September – William Pryce Cumby, Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard, 66 20 November – John Edward Madocks, MP, 51
See also 1837 in Ireland
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