1832 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1832 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales — vacant
- Princess of Wales — vacant
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 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,[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 Neillduol[2]
- Jedediah Richards — Addysg ac Amddiffyniad
Music
Births
- 5 January – Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler (d. 1891)
- 3 April – William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (d. 1878)
- 25 September – John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (d. 1887)[3]
- 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[4]
- 13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
- 16 July – Jemima Nicholas, heroine, 82[5]
- 14 August – Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), poet, 63
References
- ^ William Jones (1839). The Gwyneddion for 1832: containing the prize poems, &c. of the Beaumaris eisteddfod and North Wales literary society, ed. by W. Jones. p. 1.
- ^ William Rushton (1832). 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. Argraffwyd gan J. Jones dros yr awdwr.
- ^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. Herald Office. p. 397.
- ^ John Burke (1835). 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. H. Colburn. p. 635.
- ^ Edwyn Henry Stuart Jones (1950). The last invasion of Britain. University of Wales Press. p. 105.