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 (in Paris)
See also 1827 in Ireland
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