1832 in Wales

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 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.

New books

 * Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) — Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth Neillduol
 * Jedediah Richards — Addysg ac Amddiffyniad

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)
 * 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