1827 in Wales

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

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
 * Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Assheton Smith
 * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
 * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
 * Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
 * Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
 * Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney


 * Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Charles Sumner (until 12 December); Edward Copleston
 * Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
 * Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson

Events

 * 1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter. Llewelyn Lewellin becomes its first principal, with Alfred Ollivant as vice-principal.
 * 25 April – Sir Stapleton Cotton is created Viscount Combermere.
 * 6 November – The Welsh-language journal, Baner y Groes, is launched for the first time; 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.
 * Construction work begins on Marble Arch, designed by Welsh architect John Nash and erected in front of Buckingham Palace in London.
 * A source of manganese is discovered at Y Rhiw.

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, 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
 * 22 July – William Aubrey, engineer, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68
 * 11 August – Anthony Bushby Bacon, industrialist, about 55
 * date unknown - Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet (in Paris)