1827 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1827 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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. 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.

Arts and literature

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 -
  • William Aubrey, engineer (b. 1859)^[1]
  • Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet (in Paris)

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