1827 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1827 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

17 January – The Duke of Wellington becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.^[1]
1 March – St David's College, Lampeter, Wales, opens its doors to its first students.
7 March – Ellen Turner is abducted – the Shrigley abduction case begins.
7 April – John Walker begins selling his invention, the friction match.^[1]
10 April – George Canning succeeds Lord Liverpool as British Prime Minister following the latter's resignation due to ill health after almost fifteen years in office.^[2]
14 May – culprits in the Shrigley abduction are sentenced to three years each.
18 May – Red Barn Murder in Suffolk: Maria Marten is shot by her lover.
21 May – launch of the London Standard newspaper.
6 July – Treaty of London between France, Britain and Russia to demand that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.
8 August – Prime Minister George Canning dies in office only 119 days after being appointed, making him the shortest serving Prime Minister in British history.
31 August – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich is appointed Prime Minister following the death of Canning, continuing the Canningite Government as the Goderich Ministry.
20 October – Battle of Navarino (Greek War of Independence): British, French and Russian naval forces destroy the Turko-Egyptian fleet in Greece.^[1] This is the last naval action to be fought under sail alone.

The first of Peel's Acts begin to consolidate the criminal law. Hue and cry is abolished^[3] and the setting of mantraps to catch poachers is made illegal.
Robert Brown observes the phenomenon of Brownian motion.^[4]
Yorkshire Philosophical Society begins excavation of St Mary's Abbey, York, prior to construction of the Yorkshire Museum on part of the site.

7 January – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-born civil engineer, "father of time zones" (died 1915 in Canada)
14 January – Enderby Jackson, pioneer of the British brass band (died 1903)
24 February – Lydia Becker, suffragette (died 1890)
4 March – Henrietta Keddie ('Sarah Tytler'), Scottish-born novelist (died 1914)
7 March – John Hall Gladstone, chemist and physicist (died 1902)
14 March – George Frederick Bodley, architect (died 1907)
25 March – Edward Bradley ('Cuthbert Bede'), novelist (died 1889)
2 April – William Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1910)
5 April – Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, pioneer of antiseptic surgery (died 1912)
14 April – Augustus Pitt Rivers, né Lane-Fox, archaeologist (died 1900)
4 May – John Hanning Speke, explorer (died 1864)
16 July – William McEwan, Scottish-born brewer and politician (died 1913)
17 July – Sir Frederick Abel, chemist (died 1902)
16 August – Frances Buss, pioneer of women's education (died 1894)
19 September – J. P. Seddon, architect (died 1906)
24 October – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Liberal Party politician (died 1909)
Henry Gray, anatomist (died 1861)
Margaret Eleanor Parker, social reformer (died 1896)

2 January – John Mason Good, writer (born 1764)
5 January – Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, heir-presumptive to the throne (born 1763)
28 February – Thomas Holloway, portrait painter and engraver (born 1748)
21 April – Thomas Rowlandson, artist and caricaturist (born 1757)
26 June – Samuel Crompton, inventor (born 1753)
21 July – Archibald Constable, Scottish publisher (born 1774)
8 August – George Canning, statesman, Prime Minister from April (born 1770)
12 August – William Blake, poet, painter and printmaker (born 1757)

^ ^a ^b ^c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 255–256. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ Criminal Statutes Repeal Act, 7 and 8 Geo. IV. c. 27.
^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.

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