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
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Thomas Assheton Smith
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â William Edward Powell
- 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
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
Events
Arts and literature
New books
Music
- Peroriaeth Hyfryd (collection of hymns including Caersalem by Robert Edwards)
Births
Deaths
- 10 January â John Jones, Unitarian minister and writer, about 60
- 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
- 22 July â William Aubrey, engineer, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68
- 11 August â Anthony Bushby Bacon, industrialist, about 55
- date unknown - Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet <small>(in Paris)</small>
See also
References