1823 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1823 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Thomas Assheton Smith[6][7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â William Edward Powell[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (until 28 November)[2][12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[13][2][14]
Events
- 13 January â Edward Paget, former MP for Caernarvon, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India.[24]
- 23 January â In Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, William Buckland inspects the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial (first discovered on 21 December last).[25]
- February
- John Frost is sentenced to six months in prison for a libel against the town clerk of Newport.
- Mercy Whitney describes the burial, in Hawaii, of the infant son of Isaac and Elizabeth Peke Davis: "A regular procession of two and two followed the corpse. Going into the fort in which the grave was dug seemed like entering a burying ground, more so than anything I have witnessed since I left America."[26]
- 4 March â Llanuwchllyn-born John Richards is elected to the United States Congress.[27]
- 26 March â The packet ship Alert sinks off The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey, with the loss of a hundred lives.
- Summer â Stanley Embankment completed by Thomas Telford carrying the Holyhead road between Anglesey and Holy Island.
- 23 August â A major eisteddfod is held at Mold.
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- The Welsh Literary Society of Brecon is established by Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc).[28]
- The Presbyterian Church of Wales draws up a "Confession of Faith" and becomes a separate body.[29]
- The Caergwrle Bowl, a decorated Middle Bronze Age artefact, is discovered.[30]
Arts and literature
New books
- Felicia Hemans â The Siege of Valencia[31]
- Huw Morys â Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o bêr ganiadau Huw Morus (posthumous, ed. Walter Davies)[32]
- Ioan Siencyn â Casgliad o Ganiadau Difyr (posthumous)
Music
- David Charles â Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion (hymns)[33]
- John Ellis â Eliot (hymn tune)
Births
- 8 January â Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913)[34]
- 11 February â Llewellyn Turner, politician (d. 1903)
- March â Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid (d. 1905)[35]
- 19 April â Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer (d. 1910)[36]
- 17 November â Sir John Evans, archaeologist (d. 1908)
- December â Caroline Elizabeth Williams, radical and champion of women's rights (d. 1908)
Deaths
- 26 February (in Switzerland) â John Philip Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 66[37]
- 12 April â Diana Noel, 2nd Baroness Barham, philanthropist, 80[38]
- 11 November â Sir Richard Richards, politician and judge, 71[39]
- 28 November â Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford, landowner, 79[40]
- 30 November â William Joseph Williams, American painter of Welsh parentage, 64
- 4 December â John Ryland Harris (Ieuan Ddu), printer, 20[41]