1827 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1827 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Events
- 1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter. Llewelyn LewellinLlewelyn LewellinLlewelyn Lewellin was a clergyman and academic, the first principal of St David's College, Lampeter....
becomes its first principal, with Alfred OllivantAlfred OllivantAlfred Ollivant was an academic who went on to become bishop of Llandaff.Born in Manchester, he was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He won the Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship in 1822 and was elected to a fellowship at Trinity College. In 1827, he was appointed the first...
as vice-principal. - The nephew of the last Viscount BulkeleyViscount BulkeleyViscount Bulkeley, of Cashel in the County of Tipperary, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 19 January 1644 for Thomas Bulkeley, the son of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Beaumaris and a supporter of King Charles I of England. The title descended from father to son until the death of...
obtains permission to take the name Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley. - Sir Stapleton CottonStapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount CombermereField Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere GCB, GCH, KSI, PC , was a British military leader, diplomat and politician...
is created Viscount CombermereViscount CombermereViscount Combermere, of Bhurtpore in the East Indies and of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1827 for the prominent military commander Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, 1st Baron Combermere...
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New books
- Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) – Diliau Barddas
- John JonesJohn Jones (Unitarian)John Jones LL.D. was a Welsh Unitarian minister, critic, tutor and lexicographer.-Life:He was born about 1766 near Llandovery, in the parish of Llandingat, Carmarthenshire. His father was a farmer...
– 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 JonesJoseph David JonesJoseph David Jones was a Welsh composer and schoolmaster, commonly known as J. D. Jones. He was the father of industrialist Sir Henry Haydn Jones....
, composer (d. 1870) - 27 October – Joseph Tudor Hughes (Blegwryd), harp prodigy (d. 1841)
- date unknown - Griffith Arthur JonesGriffith Arthur JonesGriffith Arthur Jones was a Welsh Anglican priest for over 50 years, and was a strong supporter of the practices of the Oxford Movement in his ministry.-Life:...
, clergyman (d. 1906)
Deaths
- 10 January – John JonesJohn Jones (Unitarian)John Jones LL.D. was a Welsh Unitarian minister, critic, tutor and lexicographer.-Life:He was born about 1766 near Llandovery, in the parish of Llandingat, Carmarthenshire. His father was a farmer...
, Unitarian minister and writer - 12 May – David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr)David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr)David Richards , better-known by his bardic name Dafydd Ionawr, was a Welsh-language poet, born near Tywyn in Gwynedd, north-west Wales....
, poet, 76 - 27 May – Maria Bailey, wife of Sir Joseph BaileySir Joseph Bailey, 1st BaronetSir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet was an English ironmaster and Member of Parliament .Bailey was born in 1783 in Great Wenham, Suffolk, the son of John Bailey, of Wakefield and his wife Susannah...
- 3 July – David Davis (Castellhywel)David Davis (Castellhywel)David Davis , known as "Castellhywel" or "Dafis Castellhywel" to differentiate him from others of the same name, was a Welsh minister and poet....
, minister and poet, 82 - 22 July – William AubreyWilliam AubreyWilliam Aubrey was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1553 to 1559, and was one of the founding Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford. He was also a MP.-Early life and Oxford University:...
, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68 - 11 August – Anthony Bushby Bacon, former industrialist
- date unknown (in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
) – Helen Maria WilliamsHelen Maria WilliamsHelen Maria Williams was a British novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. A religious dissenter, she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution; she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror, but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her...
, novelist and poet, ±66