Wáng Yá 王涯 (763–835; CBDB id 92079), zì Guǎngjīn 廣津, native of Tàiyuán 太原 Jì 冀, was one of the leading mid-Táng court officials and a victim of the Gānlù 甘露 incident of 835. He took jìnshì in 793 and the bóxué hóngcí in 798, served as Hànlín xuéshì under Xiànzōng 憲宗, and rose to zǎixiàng — Tóng zhōngshū ménxià píngzhāng shì 同中書門下平章事 — three times: under Xiànzōng, Wénzōng, and again in 835. He held a long string of senior offices including Bīngbù shàngshū 兵部尚書, Lǐbù shàngshū 禮部尚書, and Sītú 司徒. His name appears in the Yuánhé xìngzuǎn (KR3k0007) as the author of the preface — written in the tenth month of Yuánhé 7 (812) when he was Zhōng dàfū xíng bīngbù yuánwài láng zhī zhìgào 中大夫行兵部員外郎知制誥; the Táng huìyào’s mis-attribution of the Yuánhé xìngzuǎn to him is an error noted in the Sìkù tíyào. In the Gānlù incident of November 835, in which Wénzōng’s chief ministers attempted to break the eunuch faction, Wáng Yá was caught up despite holding no role in the plot; he was arrested, tortured, and executed at age 73, his family wiped out. His biographies are in Jiù Táng shū 169 and Xīn Táng shū 179.