1903 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1903 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales â Hwfa Môn[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â John Ernest Greaves[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Herbert Davies-Evans[4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â William Cornwallis-West[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Hugh Robert Hughes[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â W. R. M. Wynne[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â Powlett Milbank[11]
- Bishop of Bangor â Watkin Williams[12]
- Bishop of Llandaff â Richard Lewis[13]
- Bishop of St Asaph â A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)[14]
- Bishop of St Davids â John Owen[15]
Events
- 4 April - Operations begin on
- 14 November - End of the lock-out at Penrhyn Quarry near Bethesda (begun 1900), the longest major industrial dispute in British history.[17]
- 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"[18]
- Crown - John Evans Davies
Cinema
- July - William Haggar releases Desperate Poaching Affray, seen as an important influence on the chase genre of film.[19]
New books
English language
- J. Romilly Allen - Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times[20]
- Sabine Baring-Gould - A Book of North Wales[21]
- Bertrand Russell - The Principles of Mathematics
Welsh language
- Jonathan Ceredig Davies - Awstralia Orllewinol[22]
- D. M. Lewis - Cofiant y Diweddar Barchedig Evan Lewis, Brynberian, 1813-96[23]
- Llyfe Mormon (translation of the Book of Mormon)[24]
Music
Sport
Births
- 1 January â Horace Evans, royal physician (died 1963)[25]
- 9 February â Gipsy Daniels, Welsh boxer
- 24 March â Gwilym R. Jones, poet and editor (died 1993)
- 14 April â Glyn Simon, Archbishop of Wales (1968â71; died 1972)[26]
- 17 April â Thomas Rowland Hughes, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1949)
- 1 May â Geraint Goodwin, writer (died 1941)[27]
- 9 May â Tudor Watkins, Baron Watkins, politician (died 1983)
- 6 June â Ceri Richards, artist (died 1971)[28]
- 22 June â Harry Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1978)
- 18 August â Dorothy Edwards, novelist (died 1934)
- 8 November â Ronald Lockley, ornithologist and naturalist (died 2000)[29]
- 22 November â David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore (died 1976)
- 2 December â 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, minersâ leader (died 1984)[30]
Deaths
- 15 January â David Howell, Dean of St Davids, 71[31]
- 30 January â William Jones, historian, 73[32]
- 17 February â Joseph Parry, composer, 61[33]
- 19 February - Samuel Arthur Brain, businessman and politician, 53[34]
- 8 March â Morgan Thomas, surgeon, 78[35]
- 12 April â Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer, 85[36]
- 18 May â Richard Mills the younger, composer and music teacher, 62/3[37]
- 19 June â Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 71[38]
- 24 June â Richard Fothergill, coal-owner and politician, 80[39]
- 15 August â John Pryce, clergyman and writer, Dean of Bangor, 73[40]
- 13 October â Morgan B. Williams, Welsh-born United States politician, 72[41]
- 18 September â Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician, 80[42]
- 9 December â Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist, 87
- date unknown Sir Walter Morgan, judge, about 82[43]