- 1823 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1823 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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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 theSkerries, Anglesey , with the loss of a hundred lives.
*William Buckland discovers the "Red Lady of Paviland ".
*A major eisteddfod is held atMold .
*The Welsh Literary Society of Brecon is established byThomas Price (Carnhuanawc) .
*The Calvinistic Methodist denomination draws up a confession of faith.Arts and literature
New books
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Felicia Hemans - "The Siege of Valencia"
*Huw Morys - "Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o bêr ganiadau Huw Morus" (posthumous, ed.Walter Davies )Music
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David Charles - "Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion" (hymn s)
*John Ellis - "Eliot" (hymn tune )Births
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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
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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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