• Source: 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 – William Jones, 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

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