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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.

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)
• 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

References

1. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
2. ^ J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
6. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
7. "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
8. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
9. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
10. Evan David Jones (1959). "Herbert family (earls of Powis)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
11. Thorne, R.G. "John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
12. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
13. William Stockdale (1833). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. p. 86.
14. Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780521563505.
15. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
16. ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
17.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Carey, William (1769-1846)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
18. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
19. The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
20. George III (King of Great Britain) (1967). The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. University Press. p. 434.
21. "Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas". The Royal Society. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. Edwyn Henry Stuart Jones (1950). The last invasion of Britain. University of Wales Press. p. 105.
27.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Howells, William". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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