1823 in Wales

none September 2019 November 2021 1823 thumb | right | alt=Black and white engraving of a cathedral. | 1823 engraving of cathedral in Wrexham 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 AngleseyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of BeaufortEdwin Poole The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions Edwin Poole 1886 378 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Assheton Smith http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/assheton-smith-thomas-1752-1828 ASSHETON SMITH, Thomas (c.1752-1828), of Faenol, Caern. and Tidworth, Hants. History of Parliament Online 6 June 2013 19 February 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250219152002/http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/assheton-smith-thomas-1752-1828 deadEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 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 WestminsterOld Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders not known William Retlaw Williams "Old Wales" Office 1907 3 106 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of PowisR. G. Thorne http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839 Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 1986 13 November 2021 13 November 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211113165618/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839 dead Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (until 28 November)s-PHIL-PIC-1491 Philipps family, of Picton Bertie George Charles 1959 19 October 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron RodneyJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115William Stockdale Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom 1833 86 Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305 Bishop of Llandaff – William Van Mildert28096 Mildert, William 2004 2007 Varley Elizabeth Bishop of St Asaph – John LuxmooreThe Church of the people and free church penny magazine 1859 179The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3 George III (King of Great Britain) University Press 1967 434Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 The Royal Society 30 October 2020 Events 13 January – Edward Paget, former MP for Caernarvon, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India.Asiatic Intelligence The Oriental Magazine, and Calcutta Review W. Thacker 1823 269 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).Stephen Aldhouse-Green Great Sites: Paviland Cave British Archaeology 61 http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba61/feat3.shtml 2010-07-16 October 2001 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.https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/20350 Richards, John United States House of Representatives 15 August 2021 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).https://biography.wales/article/s-PRIC-THO-1787 Price, Thomas (Carnhuanawc; 1787-1848), historian and antiquary Brinley Rees Brinley Rees Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 August 2021 The Presbyterian Church of Wales draws up a "Confession of Faith" and becomes a separate body. Smith Gary The Oxford handbook of Presbyterianism Oxford University Press New York, NY 2019 9780190608392 129 The Caergwrle Bowl, a decorated Middle Bronze Age artefact, is discovered.Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences H.M. Stationery Office 1980 26 Arts and literature New books Felicia Hemans – The Siege of Valenciahttps://biography.wales/article/s3-HEMA-DOR-1793 Hemans (nee Browne), Felicia (1793–1835), poet Gwyn Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 August 2021 Huw Morys – Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o bêr ganiadau Huw Morus (posthumous, ed. Walter Davies)https://biography.wales/article/s-MORY-HUW-1622 MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622-1709), poet David Jenkins Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 23 June 2018 Ioan Siencyn – Casgliad o Ganiadau Difyr (posthumous) Music David Charles – Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion (hymns)https://biography.wales/article/s-CHAR-DAV-1762 Charles, David 1 (1762–1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer Gomer Morgan Roberts Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 August 2021 John Ellis – Eliot (hymn tune) Births 8 January – Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913)s6-WALL-RUS-1823 Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823–1913), naturalist and social reformer Richard Elwyn Hughes National Library of Wales 15 August 2021 11 February – Llewellyn Turner, politician (d. 1903) March – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid (d. 1905)https://biography.wales/article/s-WILL-ROW-1823 Williams, Rowland (Hwfa Môn, 1823-1905), Independent minister, and archdruid of Wales ichard Griffith Owen Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 August 2021 19 April – Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer (d. 1910)Scott Rosemary Waring, Anna Letitia (1823–1910) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36742 26 April 2010 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, 66https://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/john-philip-kemble John Philip Kemble Westminster Abbey 23 August 2024 12 April – Diana Noel, 2nd Baroness Barham, philanthropist, 80Noel [formerly Edwardes; née Middleton], Diana, suo jure Baroness Barham http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-47112 Carter Grayson 23 September 2004 4 November 2018 10.1093/ref:odnb/47112 11 November – Sir Richard Richards, politician and judge, 71https://biography.wales/article/s-RICH-HUM-1785 Richards family of Coed William Llewelyn Davies Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 August 2021 28 November – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford, landowner, 79https://biography.wales/article/s-PHIL-PIC-1491 Philipps family, of Picton Bertie George Charles Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 15 August 2021 30 November – William Joseph Williams, American painter of Welsh parentage, 64 4 December – John Ryland Harris (Ieuan Ddu), printer, 20s-HARR-RYL-1802 Harris, John Ryland (Ieuan Ddu, 1802-1823), printer and author William Joseph Rhys National Library of Wales 15 August 2021 See also 1823 in Ireland References Category:Years of the 19th century in Wales Wales Wales Category:1823 in Europe Category:1820s in Wales