1827 in Wales
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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.