1827 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales; 1827 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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.^[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

^ 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.
^ William STOCKDALE (Publisher.) (1833). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom for ... 1833; with the arms of the Peers, etc. p. 75.
^ Lleuad yr Oes; neu, Amgeueddfa fisol o wybodaeth mewn crefydd, moes, athroniaeth a hanes (in Welsh). 1828. p. 799.
^ 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.
^ "WILLIAMS BULKELEY, Sir Richard Bulkeley, 10th bt. (1801-1875), of Baron Hill, Anglesey". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
^ Christopher Hibbert; Ben Weinreb; Julia Keay; John Keay (2008). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1939). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society.
^ Bodleian Library (1843). Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi. e Typographeo academico. p. 425.
^ Bob Owen, Croesor. "HUGHES, JOSEPH TUDOR (Blegwryd; 1827-1841), boy harpist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Walesaccess-date=10 February 2019.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "William Aubrey". The National Library of Wales - Dictionary of Welsh Biography.

[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.

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