List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1723 to Wales and its people .
Arts and literature [ edit ] 28 April - Sir John Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Eltham , English-born politician of Welsh parentage, 69[ 14]
31 May - William Baxter , classical scholar, 72[ 15]
4 August - William Fleetwood , Bishop of St Asaph 1704-1708, 67
3 October - Adam Ottley , Bishop of St Davids, 68[ 16]
21 November - Henry Rowlands , antiquary, 68[ 17]
10 December - Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron Mansel , politician, about 55[ 18]
28 December - Sir Charles Lloyd, 1st Baronet, of Milfield , politician, 61[ 19]
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^ From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
^ Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath . p. 162.
^ Davies, J. D. "Ottley, Adam". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/63755 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Richard (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 15 May 2018 .
^ Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1660-1828
^ Philip Jenkins (13 October 2014). A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990 . Routledge. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-317-87269-6 .
^ Geraint H. Jenkins; Professor of Welsh History Geraint H Jenkins (1978). Literature, Religion and Society in Wales, 1660-1730 . University of Wales Press [for] the History and Law Committee of the Board of Celtic Studies. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-7083-0669-7 .
^ David Gwenallt Jones. "Owen, Goronwy" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018 .
^ Thomas Rowland Roberts (1908). Eminent Welshmen: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present . Educational Publishing Company. p. 410 .
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^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Grosart, Alexander Balloch (1885). "Baxter, William (1650-1723) ". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Bray, Gerald (2005). Records of Convocation . Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY: Boydell Press in association with the Church of England Record Society. p. 2. ISBN 9781843832270 .
^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index . Herald Office. p. 25.
^ "Mansel, Thomas II (1667-1723), of Gerard Street, Westminster and Margam Abbey, Glam" . History of Parliament Online (1660-1690). Retrieved 1 July 2019 .
^ Hayton, D. W. (2002) "Lloyd, Sir Charles (c.1662–1723), of Maesyfelin, nr. Lampeter, Card. and Ludlow, Salop." The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690–1715