1632 in England

Events from the year 1632 in England.

• Monarch – Charles I
• Lord Chancellor – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry

• 29 March – The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is signed in which England agrees to return all of New France to French control
• 15 June – Sir Francis Windebank is made chief Secretary of State.
• 20 June – A royal charter issued for the foundation of Maryland colony in North America. Lord Baltimore appointed as the first governor.
• July – portraitist Anthony van Dyck, newly returned to London, is knighted and granted a pension as principalle Paynter in ordinary to their majesties.
• 17 October – the court of Star Chamber prohibits all "news books" because of complaints from Spanish and Austrian diplomats that coverage in England of the Thirty Years' War is unfair.

• The Second Folio of William Shakespeare's plays published.
• Publication of William Prynne's Histriomastix, an attack on the English Renaissance theatre.

• 13 March – John Houblon, first Governor of the Bank of England (died 1712)
• 29 August – John Locke, philosopher (died 1704)
• 20 October – Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (died 1723)
• 17 December – Anthony Wood, antiquarian (died 1695)

• 26 March – Sir John Leman, merchant, landowner, Lord Mayor of London and benefactor (born 1544)
• 22 June – James Whitelocke, judge (born 1570)
• 23 August – Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, noblewoman complicit in murder (born 1590)
• 25 August – Thomas Dekker, dramatist (born c. 1572)
• 5 November – Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, nobleman, Catholic sympathiser and scientist (born 1564)
• 27 November – John Eliot, statesman (born 1592)