In 1827, the Mahoning Association appointed Walter Scott as an evangelist.

Admitted to the Ohio bar in 1827, he accumulated considerable wealth as a lawyer actively involved in the coal and iron industries of the Mahoning Valley, and he went on to become president of the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad.

This controversy over whether churches or members should participate in mission boards, bible tract societies, and temperance societies led the Primitive Baptists to separate from other general Baptist groups that supported such organizations, and to make declarations of opposition to such organizations in articles like the Kehukee Association Declaration of 1827.

In 1827, Padstow Harbour Association chose Hawker's Cove as the location for the Padstow lifeboat.

Through his influence, the growing missionary tide, led by Elder Martin Ross, was abated and in 1827 the Kehukee Association " agreed that we discard all Missionary Societies, Bible Societies and Theological Seminaries ,... believing these societies and institutions to be inventions of men, and not warranted from the word of God.

In 1827, the Law Library Company merged with the Associated Members of the Bar and became known as the Law Association of Philadelphia.

After further travels in Nubia and Sudan, in 1827 he set out funded by the Association, to make his way as far up the White Nile as could be, in search of the fabled source of the Nile: tribal hostility forced him back at 13 degrees north latitude.

Exeter Hall was used for holding religious and philanthropic meetings, including the Protestant Reformation Society ( founded in 1827 ), and the Protestant Association ( revived in 1835 ).

He was appointed Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen in 1827 and was President of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

After losing his parliamentary majority in a general election in November 1827, Charles dismissed Prime Minister Villèle on 5 January 1828 and appointed Jean-Baptise de Martignac, a man the King disliked and thought of only as provisional.

Ehrenberg was appointed professor of medicine at Berlin University in 1827.

Addison was promoted to assistant physician on January 14, 1824 and in 1827 he was appointed lecturer of materia medica.

In 1827 he was appointed professor of ancient literature and eloquence in the University of Greifswald ; it was there that he died.

He was appointed Governor of Norway on 26 November 1827, a position which he held until his death in Christiania, the Norwegian capital, on 6 December 1829.

William Wilkins, who had recently completed major works at Downing, King's, and Trinity, was appointed architect and the New Court was completed in 1827 in a neo-gothic style.

In 1817 he was appointed city and police commissar in Bamberg, in 1819, Governmental Councillor in Munich, and in 1827 promoted to Senior Legal Secretary.

In 1827 Ward was appointed Foreign Secretary under George Canning, a post he held also under Lord Goderich and the Duke of Wellington, resigning office in May 1828.

Still retaining office in the Tory government, he became a Privy Counsellor in 1821, and shortly afterwards was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, a position which he held until April 1827.

In 1819 Elphinstone was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Bombay, a post he held until 1827.

Randolph was appointed to the US Senate in December, 1825 to fill a vacancy, and served until 1827.

This was transferred to the British Museum in 1827, and Brown was appointed Keeper of the Banksian Botanical Collection.

George Canning was MP for Newport when appointed Prime Minister in 1827 ; however, under the law as it then stood a minister accepting office automatically vacated his seat and had to stand for re-election to the Commons, and Canning chose to stand at Seaford, a government pocket borough in Sussex, rather than fight Newport again.

In 1827 he sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Judge-Advocate-General by George Canning, a post he held until 1828, the last months under the premiership of Lord Goderich.

Instead, he was appointed a judge of the general court of Virginia and served for two years, resigning in 1827 to return to his seat in the House of Representatives as a Jacksonian.

During the Greek War of Independence he commanded H. M. S. Talbot at the Battle of Navarino in October 1827 and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in November of that year.

He was appointed to the peerage in 1827, sitting as Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden, and initially attended the House of Lords regularly.

In 1823 he was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade ; from September 1827 to June 1828 he was President of the Board of Trade and Treasurer of the Navy.

In 1835 he was appointed professor of geology at the École des Mines, in succession to Brochant de Villiers, whose assistant he had been in the duties of the chair since 1827.

He remained out of office until April 1827 when he was appointed Lord Privy Seal by his brother-in-law George Canning.

Ellsworth was appointed professor of law at Trinity College in 1827, which position he held until his death.

Because of Crittenden's support of his presidential bid, President Adams appointed him United States district attorney for the district of Kentucky in 1827.

* 1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer ( b. 1747 )

The term " socialist " was first used in English in the British Cooperative Magazine in 1827 and came to be associated with the followers of the Welsh reformer Robert Owen, such as the Rochdale Pioneers who founded the co-operative movement.

* Horace Mann-American education reformer, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833.

* January 12-Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educational reformer ( died 1827 )

François Alexandre Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld, Duke of La Rochefoucauld ( 11 January 1747 – 27 March 1827 ) was a French social reformer.

* François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt ( 1747 – 1827 ), social reformer

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ( 12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827 ) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.

* Robert Jackson ( surgeon ) ( 1750 – 1827 ), Scottish physician-surgeon, reformer, and inspector-general of army hospitals

* Acharya Rajendrasuri, reformer in Shvetambar sect of Jainism ( born 1827 ).

* William Wilkins Crescent: William Wilkins ( 1827 – 1892 ), educational reformer and administrator, including Principal of Fort Street Model School ( New South Wales )