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 – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort ^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Assheton Smith ^{[6] [7]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell ^[2]
• 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 ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis ^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet ^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney ^{[13] [2] [14]}

• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie ^{[15] [16]}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Charles Sumner (until 12 December); Edward Copleston ^[17]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore ^{[18] [19] [17]}
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson ^{[17] [20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter. ^[23] Llewelyn Lewellin becomes its first principal, with Alfred Ollivant as vice-principal.
• 25 April – Sir Stapleton Cotton is created Viscount Combermere. ^[24]
• 6 November – 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) – Diliau Barddas ^[29]
• John Jones – An Explanation of the Greek Article ^[30]

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) ^[31]
• 18 November – Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, Alpinist (d. 1913) ^[32]
• date unknown - Griffith Arthur Jones, clergyman (d. 1906)

Deaths

• 10 January – John Jones, Unitarian minister and writer, about 60 ^[33]
• 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 ^[34]
• 22 July – William Aubrey, engineer, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68 ^[35]
• 11 August – Anthony Bushby Bacon, industrialist, about 55 ^[36]
• date unknown - Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet (in Paris)

See also

• 1827 in Ireland

References

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