1832 in the United Kingdom:

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Sport

1832 English cricket season

Events from the year 1832 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - William IV of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Whig

[edit] Events

• 12 February - serious cholera epidemic begins in London from the East London. It is declared officially over in early May but deaths continue. It claimed at least 3000 victims .
• 4 June - The Great Reform Act becomes law, extending suffrage to the whole of the upper middle class, and abolishing the rotten boroughs.^[1]
• 4 July - University of Durham founded, the first in England since 1209.
• December - General election, the first under the new system of voting, gives the Whigs a decisive majority.^[2]

[edit] Publications

• Walter Scott's novels Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous.

[edit] Births

• 27 January - Lewis Carroll, author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer (died 1898)
• 12 March - Charles Boycott, land agent, origin of the word "boycott" (died 1897)
• 14 May - Charles Peace, criminal (died 1879)
• 17 June - Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist (died 1919)
• 30 September - Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, field marshal (died 1914)
• 2 October - Edward Burnett Tylor, anthropologist (died 1917)
• 28 November - Leslie Stephen, writer and critic (died 1904)

[edit] Deaths

• 13 January - Thomas Lord, cricketer and founder of Lord's Cricket Ground (born 1755)
• 27 January - Andrew Bell, educationist and priest (born 1753)
• 6 June - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher (born 1748)
• 23 June - James Hall, geologist (born 1761)
• 21 September - Walter Scott, historical novelist and poet (born 1771)

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