1823 in Wales

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1823 in the United Kingdom

1823 in Ireland

Other events of 1823

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

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 New books 3.2 Music 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

[edit] Events

• February - John Frost is sentenced to six months in prison for a libel against the town clerk of Newport.
• March 26 - The packet ship Alert sinks off the Skerries, Anglesey, with the loss of a hundred lives.
• William Buckland discovers the "Red Lady of Paviland".
• A major eisteddfod is held at Mold.
• The Welsh Literary Society of Brecon is established by Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc).
• The Calvinistic Methodist denomination draws up a confession of faith.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New books

• Felicia Hemans - The Siege of Valencia
• Huw Morys - Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o bêr ganiadau Huw Morus (posthumous, ed. Walter Davies)

[edit] Music

• David Charles - Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion (hymns)
• John Ellis - Eliot (hymn tune)

[edit] Births

• January 8 - Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913)
• February 11 - Llewellyn Turner, politician (d. 1903)
• March - Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid (d. 1905)
• November 17 - Sir John Evans, archaeologist (d. 1908)

[edit] Deaths

• February 26 - John Philip Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 66
• December 4 - John Ryland Harris (Ieuan Ddu), printer, 20
• date unknown - William Joseph Williams, American painter of Welsh parentage, 64?