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1827 in Wales
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1827
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 AngleseyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of BeaufortEdwin Poole The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions Edwin Poole 1886 378
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Assheton Smith http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/assheton-smith-thomas-1752-1828 ASSHETON SMITH, Thomas (c.1752-1828), of Faenol, Caern. and Tidworth, Hants. History of Parliament Online 6 June 2013 19 February 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250219152002/http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/assheton-smith-thomas-1752-1828 deadEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26
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 WestminsterOld Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders not known William Retlaw Williams "Old Wales" Office 1907 3 106
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of PowisR. G. Thorne http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839 Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 1986 13 November 2021 13 November 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211113165618/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839 dead
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st BaronetThorne R.G. John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 History of Parliament 27 March 2020
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron RodneyJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115William Stockdale Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom 1833 86
Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305
Bishop of Llandaff – Charles Sumner (until 12 December); Edward Copleston
Bishop of St Asaph – John LuxmooreThe Church of the people and free church penny magazine 1859 179The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15
Bishop of St Davids – John JenkinsonThomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3 George III (King of Great Britain) University Press 1967 434Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 The Royal Society 30 October 2020
Events
1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter.E. A. Varley The Last of the Prince Bishops: William Van Mildert and the High Church Movement of the Early Nineteenth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=jLqpg38BTDAC&pg=PA93 11 April 2002 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89231-5 93 Llewelyn Lewellin becomes its first principal, with Alfred Ollivant as vice-principal.
25 April – Sir Stapleton Cotton is created Viscount Combermere.William STOCKDALE (Publisher.) Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom for ... 1833; with the arms of the Peers, etc https://books.google.com/books?id=nzAhtsVDTZUC&pg=PA75 1833 75
6 November – The Welsh-language journal, Baner y Groes, is launched for the first time;Lleuad yr Oes; neu, Amgeueddfa fisol o wybodaeth mewn crefydd, moes, athroniaeth a hanes https://books.google.com/books?id=M9IGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA799 1828 799 cy 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.Thomas Nicholas 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 https://books.google.com/books?id=iD4LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA40 1872 Longmans, Green, Reader 40https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/williams-bulkeley-sir-richard-1801-1875 WILLIAMS BULKELEY, Sir Richard Bulkeley, 10th bt. (1801-1875), of Baron Hill, Anglesey History of Parliament Online 10 February 2019
Construction work begins on Marble Arch, designed by Welsh architect John Nash and erected in front of Buckingham Palace in London.Christopher Hibbert Ben Weinreb Julia Keay John Keay The London Encyclopaedia https://books.google.com/books?id=wN_H-__MBpYC&pg=PA528 2008 Macmillan 978-1-4050-4924-5
A source of manganese is discovered at Y Rhiw.
Arts and literature
New books
Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) – Diliau BarddasHonourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=lF0dAAAAMAAJ 1939 The Society
John Jones – An Explanation of the Greek ArticleBodleian Library Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi https://books.google.com/books?id=H_VfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA425 1843 e Typographeo academico 425
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)s-HUGH-TUD-1827 HUGHES, JOSEPH TUDOR (Blegwryd; 1827-1841), boy harpist Bob Owen, Croesor 10 February 2019
18 November – Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, Alpinist (d. 1913)s3-LEWI-EMM-1827 LEWIS LLOYD, EMMELINE (1827-1913), one of the first women to climb in the Alps Ioan Bowen Rees yes 10 February 2019
date unknown - Griffith Arthur Jones, clergyman (d. 1906)
Deaths
10 January – John Jones, Unitarian minister and writer, about 60s-JONE-JHN-1766 Jones, John (1766?-1827), classical scholar and Unitarian divine Griffith Milwyn Griffiths 1959 28 November 2021
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, 82Thomas Mardy Rees Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index https://books.google.com/books?id=sXM_AQAAMAAJ 1908 Herald Office 161
22 July – William Aubrey, engineer, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68William Aubrey s-AUBR-WIL-1759 yes
11 August – Anthony Bushby Bacon, industrialist, about 55s-BACO-N00-1718 Bacon family Watkin William Price Watkin William Price 1959 28 November 2021
date unknown - Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet (in Paris)
See also
1827 in Ireland
References
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