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1827 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1827 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – vacant
  • Princess of Wales – vacant

    • Events

  • 1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter. Llewelyn Lewellin becomes its first principal, with Alfred Ollivant as vice-principal.
  • The nephew of the last Viscount Bulkeley obtains permission to take the name Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley.
  • Sir Stapleton Cotton is created Viscount Combermere.
  • Welsh architect John Nash designs Marble Arch in London.

    • New books

  • Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) – Diliau Barddas
  • John Jones – An Explanation of the Greek Article

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

    • Deaths

  • 10 January – John Jones, Unitarian minister and writer
  • 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
  • 22 July – William Aubrey, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68
  • 11 August – Anthony Bushby Bacon, former industrialist
  • date unknown (in Paris) – Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet, ±66

    • References

    1827 in Wales Wikipedia
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