• the year 1723 in Scotland. Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1723. 1723 (MDCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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  • Spathian Smithian, pertaining to, or characteristic of Adam Smith (1723–1790), Scottish philosopher and pioneer of political economy Smithian, something...
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    Gavin Hamilton (artist) (category 1723 births)
    antiquities in the neighbourhood of Rome. These roles in combination made him an arbiter of neoclassical taste. Born in Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1723, he matriculated...
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  • James Maule, 4th Earl of Panmure (category 1723 deaths)
    1658 – 11 April 1723) was a Scottish peer. Born in Monifieth, Scotland, James Maule lived at Ballumbie and became the 4th Earl of Panmure in 1686 on the death...
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    Smith (baptised 16 June [O.S. 5 June] 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy...
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  • Primrose, 1st Earl of Rosebery PC (18 December 1664 – 20 October 1723) was a Scottish politician. Primrose was born on 18 December 1664. He was the son...
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  • Francis Wemyss Charteris (21 October 1723 – 24 August 1808) was a Scottish landowner who claimed to be 7th Earl of Wemyss. Charteris was the second son...
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  • William Dalrymple (moderator) (category 1723 births)
    August 1723 – 28 January 1814) was a Scottish religious writer, minister and Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1781. He is remembered in a poem by...
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  • Kenneth Macaulay (minister) (category 1723 births)
    Kenneth Macaulay (1723 – 2 March 1779) was a Scottish church minister, and writer of a history of St Kilda, Scotland. Macauly was the third son of Aulay...
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    George Watson (accountant) (category 1723 deaths)
    Watson (23 November 1654 – 3 April 1723) was a Scottish accountant and philanthropist. He was the Bank of Scotland's first Chief Accountant. He bequeathed...
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    Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton (10 February 1723 – 25 October 1769), was a Scottish peer. Eglinton was the son of The 9th Earl of Eglinton...
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    James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute (category 1723 deaths)
    Earl of Bute (before 1696 – 28 January 1723) was the son of James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute and Agnes Mackenzie. In February 1711, he married Lady Anne Campbell...
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  • John Swinton of that Ilk was a Scottish politician. He was born before 1662, the second son of John Swinton, of Swinton in Berwickshire, and his wife Margaret...
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    2013). Annotated Readings in the History of Statistics. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4757-3500-0. Olson, Richard S. (8 March 2015). Scottish Philosophy and British...
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    Brown (3 March 1723 - 16 January 1808) was a Scottish-Danish merchant and ship-owner. He was a joint founder of John & David Brown in 1759. The company...
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    Most of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language place names. In the 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people...
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    Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond (category 1723 deaths)
    Richmond, 1st Duke of Lennox KG (29 July 1672 – 27 May 1723), of Goodwood House near Chichester in Sussex, was the youngest of the seven illegitimate sons...
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  • Robert Calder (priest) (category 1723 deaths)
    Robert Calder (1650?–1723) was a clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church, known as an author and controversialist. Calder was a native of Elgin, born...
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    (1656–1723) of Tedworth House, Hampshire, was an English politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1678 and 1723. He served...
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  • events and publications of 1723. March – Voltaire makes an agreement with Abraham Viret to allow his work to be printed in Rouen. July – A new edition...
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    British novelist Adam Livingston (c. 1723–1795), Scottish soldier and politician Adam Livingstone (born 1998), Scottish footballer Adam Lizakowski (born 1956)...
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  • Penicuik, and is constructed between 1723 and 1727, the first Palladian villa in Scotland. St Mary le Strand in London, designed by James Gibbs, becomes...
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  • Sir James Macdonald, 6th Baronet (category 1723 deaths)
    Sir James Macdonald, 6th Baronet (died 1723) was a Scottish Chief of Clan Macdonald of Sleat. Macdonald was a younger son of Sir Donald Macdonald, 3rd...
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  • (died 1723), his son, Scottish politician John Swinton (1703–1777), British writer, academic, clergyman and orientalist John Swinton, Lord Swinton (1723–1799)...
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    December 1723), who was known as the Regent, was a French prince, soldier, and statesman who served as Regent of the Kingdom of France from 1715 to 1723. He...
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    Patterson (1821-1862), American military officer Francis Peacock (1723–1807), Scottish dance teacher and musician Francis "Frank" Pearson (1937–2003), British...
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  • in the Kingdom of Scotland. Monarch – Charles II (since May 29, 1660) 1660: 1 January – Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to...
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  • Dalrymple (moderator) (1723–1814), Scottish minister and religious writer William Dalrymple (British Army officer) (1736–1807), Scottish general and MP for...
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  • and etcher John Watson Gordon (1788–1864), painter Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798), Scottish neoclassical history painter David Ramsay Hay (1798–1866), artist...
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