1827 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1827 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Thomas Assheton Smith[6][7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â William Edward Powell[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[13][2][14]
Events
- 1 March â Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter.[23] Llewelyn Lewellin becomes its first principal, with Alfred Ollivant as vice-principal.
- 25 April â Sir Stapleton Cotton is created Viscount Combermere.[24]
- 6 November â The Welsh-language journal, Baner y Groes, is launched for the first time;[25] it would be revived in 1854.
- date unknown
- The nephew of the last Viscount Bulkeley obtains permission, by royal licence, to take the name Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley.[26][27]
- Construction work begins on Marble Arch, designed by Welsh architect John Nash and erected in front of Buckingham Palace in London.[28]
- A source of manganese is discovered at Y Rhiw.
Arts and literature
New books
- Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) â Diliau Barddas[29]
- John Jones â An Explanation of the Greek Article[30]
Music
- Peroriaeth Hyfryd (collection of hymns including Caersalem by Robert Edwards)
Births
- 6 June â Hugh Robert Hughes, genealogist (d. 1911)
- 17 September - Joseph David Jones, composer (d. 1870)
- 27 October â Joseph Tudor Hughes (Blegwryd), harp prodigy (d. 1841)[31]
- 18 November â Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, Alpinist (d. 1913)[32]
- date unknown - Griffith Arthur Jones, clergyman (d. 1906)
Deaths
- 10 January â John Jones, Unitarian minister and writer, about 60[33]
- 25 January â John Evans, Baptist minister and writer, 59
- 12 May â David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr), poet, 76
- 27 May â Maria Bailey, wife of Sir Joseph Bailey
- 3 July â David Davis (Castellhywel), minister and poet, 82[34]
- 22 July â William Aubrey, engineer, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68[35]
- 11 August â Anthony Bushby Bacon, industrialist, about 55[36]
- date unknown - Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet (in Paris)