1903 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1903 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn
• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank
• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

Events

• 4 April - Operations begin on
• Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.
• Wrexham and District Electric Tramways.
• 14 November - End of the lock-out at Penrhyn Quarry near Bethesda (begun 1900), the longest major industrial dispute in British history.
• Sygun Copper Mine is abandoned.
• Closure of the life-boat station on Ynys Llanddwyn.

Arts and literature

• Arthur Machen marries Dorothie Purefoy Hudleston.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Llanelli
• Chair - John Thomas Job, "Y Celt"
• Crown - John Evans Davies

Cinema

• July - William Haggar releases Desperate Poaching Affray, seen as an important influence on the chase genre of film.

New books

English language

• J. Romilly Allen - Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times
• Sabine Baring-Gould - A Book of North Wales
• Bertrand Russell - The Principles of Mathematics

Welsh language

• Jonathan Ceredig Davies - Awstralia Orllewinol
• D. M. Lewis - Cofiant y Diweddar Barchedig Evan Lewis, Brynberian, 1813-96
• Llyfe Mormon (translation of the Book of Mormon)

Music

Sport

Births

• 1 January – Horace Evans, royal physician (died 1963)
• 9 February – Gipsy Daniels, Welsh boxer
• 24 March – Gwilym R. Jones, poet and editor (died 1993)
• 14 April – Glyn Simon, Archbishop of Wales (1968–71; died 1972)
• 17 April – Thomas Rowland Hughes, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1949)
• 1 May – Geraint Goodwin, writer (died 1941)
• 9 May – Tudor Watkins, Baron Watkins, politician (died 1983)
• 6 June – Ceri Richards, artist (died 1971)
• 22 June – Harry Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1978)
• 18 August – Dorothy Edwards, novelist (died 1934)
• 8 November – Ronald Lockley, ornithologist and naturalist (died 2000)
• 22 November – David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore (died 1976)
• 2 December – Jim Sullivan, Wales and British Isles rugby league player (died 1977)
• 6 December
• E. D. Jones, librarian of National Library of Wales (died 1987)
• Will Paynter, miners’ leader (died 1984)

Deaths

• 15 January – David Howell, Dean of St Davids, 71
• 30 January – , historian, 73
• 17 February – Joseph Parry, composer, 61
• 19 February - Samuel Arthur Brain, businessman and politician, 53
• 8 March – Morgan Thomas, surgeon, 78
• 12 April – Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer, 85
• 18 May – Richard Mills the younger, composer and music teacher, 62/3
• 19 June – Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 71
• 24 June – Richard Fothergill, coal-owner and politician, 80
• 15 August – John Pryce, clergyman and writer, Dean of Bangor, 73
• 13 October – Morgan B. Williams, Welsh-born United States politician, 72
• 18 September – Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician, 80
• 9 December – Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist, 87
• date unknown Sir Walter Morgan, judge, about 82

See also

• 1903 in Ireland

References