1823 in Wales

1823 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

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.

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)

Music

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

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)

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?


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