1827 in Wales

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

← 1826 1825 1824 1823 1822 1827 in Wales → 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1827 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – vacant
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

• 1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter.[1] Llewelyn Lewellin becomes its first principal, with Alfred Ollivant as vice-principal.
• 25 April – Sir Stapleton Cotton is created Viscount Combermere.[2]
• 6 November – The Welsh-language journal, Baner y Groes, is launched for the first time;[3] 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.[4][5]
  • Construction work begins on Marble Arch, designed by Welsh architect John Nash and erected in front of Buckingham Palace in London.[6]
  • A source of manganese is discovered at Y Rhiw.

Arts and literature

New books

• Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) – Diliau Barddas[7]
• John Jones – An Explanation of the Greek Article[8]

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)[9]
• 18 November – Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, Alpinist (d. 1913)[10]
• 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[11]
• 22 July – William Aubrey, engineer, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68[12]
• 11 August – Anthony Bushby Bacon, industrialist, about 55
• date unknown - Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet (in Paris)

References

1. E. A. Varley (11 April 2002). The Last of the Prince Bishops: William Van Mildert and the High Church Movement of the Early Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-521-89231-5.
2. William STOCKDALE (Publisher.) (1833). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom for ... 1833; with the arms of the Peers, etc. p. 75.
3. Lleuad yr Oes; neu, Amgeueddfa fisol o wybodaeth mewn crefydd, moes, athroniaeth a hanes (in Welsh). 1828. p. 799.
4. Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales: Containing a Record of All Ranks of the Gentry ... with Many Ancient Pedigrees and Memorials of Old and Extinct Families. Longmans, Green, Reader. p. 40.
5. "WILLIAMS BULKELEY, Sir Richard Bulkeley, 10th bt. (1801-1875), of Baron Hill, Anglesey". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
6. Christopher Hibbert; Ben Weinreb; Julia Keay; John Keay (2008). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
7. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1939). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society.
8. Bodleian Library (1843). Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi. e Typographeo academico. p. 425.
9. Bob Owen, Croesor. "HUGHES, JOSEPH TUDOR (Blegwryd; 1827-1841), boy harpist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Walesaccess-date=10 February 2019.
10. Ioan Bowen Rees. "LEWIS LLOYD, EMMELINE (1827-1913), one of the first women to climb in the Alps". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Walesaccess-date=10 February 2019.
11. Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. Herald Office. p. 161.
12. "William Aubrey". The National Library of Wales - Dictionary of Welsh Biography.