This article is about the particular significance of the year 1823 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 – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (until 28 November) Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie Bishop of Llandaff – William Van Mildert Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess
Events 13 January – Edward Paget, former MP for Caernarvon, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India. 23 January – 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). 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."Hawaii's Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old History By Peter R. Mills. Page 141 4 March – Llanuwchllyn-born John Richards is elected to the United States Congress. 26 March – The packet ship Alert sinks off The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey, with the loss of a hundred lives. Summer – Stanley Embankment completed by Thomas Telford carrying the Holyhead road between Anglesey and Holy Island. 23 August – A major eisteddfod is held at Mold. unknown date The Welsh Literary Society of Brecon is established by Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc). The Presbyterian Church of Wales draws up a "Confession of Faith" and becomes a separate body. The Caergwrle Bowl, a decorated Middle Bronze Age artefact, is discovered.
Arts and literature New books Felicia Hemans – The Siege of Valencia Huw Morys – Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o bêr ganiadau Huw Morus (posthumous, ed. Walter Davies) Ioan Siencyn – Casgliad o Ganiadau Difyr (posthumous)
Music David Charles – Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion (hymns) John Ellis – Eliot (hymn tune)
Births 8 January – Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913) 11 February – Llewellyn Turner, politician (d. 1903) March – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid (d. 1905) 19 April – Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer (d. 1910) 17 November – Sir John Evans, archaeologist (d. 1908) December – Caroline Elizabeth Williams, radical and champion of women's rights (d. 1908)
Deaths 26 February (in Switzerland) – John Philip Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 66 12 April – Diana Noel, 2nd Baroness Barham, philanthropist, 80 11 November – Sir Richard Richards, politician and judge, 71 28 November – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford, landowner, 79 30 November – William Joseph Williams, American painter of Welsh parentage, 64 4 December – John Ryland Harris (Ieuan Ddu), printer, 20
See also 1823 in Ireland
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