1827 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1827 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Assheton Smith
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney

• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie
• Bishop of Llandaff – Charles Sumner (until 12 December); Edward Copleston
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson

Events

• 1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter. Llewelyn Lewellin becomes its first principal, with Alfred Ollivant as vice-principal.
• 25 April – Sir Stapleton Cotton is created Viscount Combermere.
• 6 November – The Welsh-language journal, Baner y Groes, is launched for the first time; 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.
• Construction work begins on Marble Arch, designed by Welsh architect John Nash and erected in front of Buckingham Palace in London.
• A source of manganese is discovered at Y Rhiw.

Arts and literature

New books

• Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) – Diliau Barddas
• John Jones – An Explanation of the Greek Article

Music

• Peroriaeth Hyfryd (collection of hymns including Caersalem by Robert Edwards)

Births

• 6 June – Hugh Robert Hughes, genealogist (d. 1911)
• 17 September - Joseph David Jones, composer (d. 1870)
• 27 October – Joseph Tudor Hughes (Blegwryd), harp prodigy (d. 1841)
• 18 November – Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, Alpinist (d. 1913)
• date unknown - Griffith Arthur Jones, clergyman (d. 1906)

Deaths

• 10 January – John Jones, Unitarian minister and writer, about 60
• 25 January – John Evans, Baptist minister and writer, 59
• 12 May – David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr), poet, 76
• 27 May – Maria Bailey, wife of Sir Joseph Bailey
• 3 July – David Davis (Castellhywel), minister and poet, 82
• 22 July – William Aubrey, engineer, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68
• 11 August – Anthony Bushby Bacon, industrialist, about 55
• date unknown - Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet <small>(in Paris)</small>

See also

• 1827 in Ireland

References