1723 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1723 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley ^{[1] [2]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos ^[1]

• Bishop of Bangor – Richard Reynolds (until 17 June) ^[3] William Baker (from 11 August) ^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler ^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne ^[6]
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley (until 3 October) ^[7]

Events

• 7 May - Lewis Morris arrives in London from Anglesey. ^[8]
• October - Following the death of Adam Ottley, bishop of St Davids, while in office, Richard Smalbroke, Treasurer of Llandaff, is selected as his successor.
• date unknown - The roles of Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Custos Rotulorum of Brecknockshire are merged. ^[9]

Arts and literature

New books

• Henry Rowlands - Mona Antiqua Restaurata ^[10]
• Christmas Samuel - Llun Agrippa ^[11]

Births

• 1 January - Goronwy Owen, poet (died 1769) ^[12]
• 23 February - Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
• 5 March - Princess Mary of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1772)
• August - Sir Richard Perryn, judge (died 1803) ^[13]

Deaths

• 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]

References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
3. "Reynolds, Richard (1674-1743)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
4. "Baker, William (1668-1732)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
5. 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
6. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
7. 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.)
8. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Richard (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 15 May 2018.
9. Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1660-1828
10. Philip Jenkins (13 October 2014). A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990. Routledge. p. 75. ISBN   978-1-317-87269-6.
11. 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.
12. David Gwenallt Jones. "Owen, Goronwy". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
13. 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.
14. Hayton, D. W. (2002). "Williams, Sir John (1653-1723)". In Hayton, David; Cruickshanks, Eveline; Handley, Stuart (eds.). The House of Commons 1690-1715. The History of Parliament Trust.
15.  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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. "Mansel, Thomas II (1667-1723), of Gerard Street, Westminster and Margam Abbey, Glam". History of Parliament Online (1660-1690). Retrieved 1 July 2019.
19. 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