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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^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Assheton Smith^[6][7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell^[2]
• 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^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (until 28 November)^[2][12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^[13][2][14]

• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie^[15][16]
• Bishop of Llandaff – William Van Mildert^[17]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore^[18][19][20]
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess^{[20][21][22][23]}

Events

• 13 January – Edward Paget, former MP for Caernarvon, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India.^[24]
• 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).^[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 – Llanuwchllyn-born John Richards is elected to the United States Congress.^[27]
• 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.
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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

Births

• 8 January – Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913)^[34]
• 11 February – Llewellyn Turner, politician (d. 1903)
• March – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid (d. 1905)^[35]
• 19 April – Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer (d. 1910)^[36]
• 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^[37]
• 28 November – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford, landowner, 79^[38]
• 30 November – William Joseph Williams, American painter of Welsh parentage, 64
• 4 December – John Ryland Harris (Ieuan Ddu), printer, 20^[39]

See also

• 1823 in Ireland

References