1823 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1823 to Wales and its people.

← 1822 1821 1820 1819 1818 1823 in Wales → 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1823 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – vacant
• Princess of Wales – vacant

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 discovers the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial (first discovered on 21 December last).[1]
• 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."[2]
• 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.
• A major eisteddfod is held at Mold.
• 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)[3]
• 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)[4]
• 17 November – Sir John Evans, archaeologist (d. 1908)
• December – Caroline Elizabeth Williams, radical and champion of women's rights (d. 1908)

Deaths

• 26 February – John Philip Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 66
• 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

References

1. Aldhouse-Green, Stephen (October 2001). "Great Sites: Paviland Cave". British Archaeology (61). Retrieved 16 July 2010.
2. Hawaii's Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old History By Peter R. Mills. Page 141
3. David Jenkins. "MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622-1709), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
4. Scott, Rosemary (2004). "Waring, Anna Letitia (1823–1910)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 April 2010.