1827 in Wales explained

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^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Assheton Smith^{[6] [7]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell^[2]
  • • 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^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^{[13] [2] [14]}
• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie^{[15] [16]}
  • Bishop of Llandaff – Charles Sumner (until 12 December); Edward Copleston Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore^{[17] [18]}
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson^{[19] [20] [21] [22]}

Events

• 1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter.^[23] Llewelyn Lewellin becomes its first principal, with Alfred Ollivant as vice-principal.
• 25 April – Sir Stapleton Cotton is created Viscount Combermere.^[24]
• 6 November – The Welsh-language journal, Baner y Groes, is launched for the first time;^[25] 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.^{[26] [27]}
  • Construction work begins on Marble Arch, designed by Welsh architect John Nash and erected in front of Buckingham Palace in London.^[28]
  • A source of manganese is discovered at Y Rhiw.

Arts and literature

New books

• Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) – Diliau Barddas^[29]
• John Jones – An Explanation of the Greek Article^[30]

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)^[31]
• 18 November – Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, Alpinist (d. 1913)^[32]
• date unknown - Griffith Arthur Jones, clergyman (d. 1906)

Deaths

• 10 January – John Jones, Unitarian minister and writer, about 60^[33]
• 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^[34]
• 22 July – William Aubrey, engineer, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68^[35]
• 11 August – Anthony Bushby Bacon, industrialist, about 55^[36]
• date unknown - Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet (in Paris)

See also

• 1827 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Book: Edwin 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.
6. Web site: ASSHETON SMITH, Thomas (c.1752-1828), of Faenol, Caern. and Tidworth, Hants.. History of Parliament Online. 6 June 2013.
7. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
8. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
9. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
10. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
11. Web site: R. G. Thorne. Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820. 1986. 13 November 2021.
12. Web site: Thorne . R.G. . John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire . History of Parliament . 27 March 2020.
13. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
14. Book: William Stockdale. Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom. 1833. 86.
15. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
16. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
17. Book: The Church of the people and free church penny magazine. 1859. 179.
18. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
19. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
20. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
21. Book: The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. George III (King of Great Britain). University Press. 1967. 434.
22. Web site: Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas . The Royal Society . 30 October 2020.
23. Book: E. A. Varley. The Last of the Prince Bishops: William Van Mildert and the High Church Movement of the Early Nineteenth Century. 11 April 2002. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-89231-5. 93.
24. Book: William STOCKDALE (Publisher.). Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom for ... 1833; with the arms of the Peers, etc. 1833. 75.
25. Book: Lleuad yr Oes; neu, Amgeueddfa fisol o wybodaeth mewn crefydd, moes, athroniaeth a hanes. 1828. 799. cy.
26. Book: 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. 1872. Longmans, Green, Reader. 40.
27. Web site: WILLIAMS BULKELEY, Sir Richard Bulkeley, 10th bt. (1801-1875), of Baron Hill, Anglesey. History of Parliament Online. 10 February 2019.
28. Book: Christopher Hibbert . Ben Weinreb . Julia Keay . John Keay. The London Encyclopaedia . 2008 . Macmillan . 978-1-4050-4924-5.
29. Book: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. 1939. The Society.
30. Book: Bodleian Library. Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi. 1843. e Typographeo academico. 425.
31. s-HUGH-TUD-1827. HUGHES, JOSEPH TUDOR (Blegwryd; 1827-1841), boy harpist. Bob Owen, Croesor. 10 February 2019.
32. 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.
33. s-JONE-JHN-1766. Jones, John (1766?-1827), classical scholar and Unitarian divine. Griffith Milwyn Griffiths. 1959. 28 November 2021.
34. Book: Thomas Mardy Rees. Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. 1908. Herald Office. 161.
35. William Aubrey. s-AUBR-WIL-1759. yes.
36. s-BACO-N00-1718. Bacon family. Watkin William. Price. Watkin William Price. 1959. 28 November 2021.