1837 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1837 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1837 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[]

January – John Frost becomes Mayor of Newport.
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.^[1]
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 to take Caernarvon Boroughs for the Tories.
date unknown
- Chartist riots in Montgomeryshire.^[2]
- becomes secretary to Lord Clive.
- Major reconstruction of Penrhyn Castle in north Wales by Thomas Hopper (architect) is largely completed.^[3]

Henry Mark Anthony exhibits A view on the Rhaidha [sic] Glamorganshire at the Royal Academy.
The Welsh Manuscripts Society is founded at Abergavenny.

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, preacher (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)

^ "Argoed Hall". Welsh coal mines. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
^ Thomas Rowland Roberts (1908). Eminent Welshmen: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present. Educational Publishing Company. p. 73.
^ Port, M. H. (2004). "Hopper, Thomas (1776–1856)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13763. Retrieved 23 January 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ "Pryce-Cumby, William, Captain, 1771-1837". nmm.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
^ Archaeologia Cambrensis. W. Pickering. 1904. p. 170.