1837 in Wales

This article is about the particular 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 with the view of obtaining 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 take 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.

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)
 * 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