1827 in Wales

1827 in Wales
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1827 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1827

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

Incumbents

Prince of Wales – vacant
Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter. Llewelyn Lewellin becomes its first principal, with Alfred Ollivant as vice-principal.
The nephew of the last Viscount Bulkeley obtains permission to take the name Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley.
Sir Stapleton Cotton is created Viscount Combermere.
Welsh architect John Nash designs Marble Arch in London.

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
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, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68
11 August – Anthony Bushby Bacon, former industrialist
date unknown (in Paris) – Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet, ±66