1803 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use Welsh English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1803 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (until 11 October); Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (from 4 November)[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – vacant until 1804
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley[11][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – William Cleaver[12][13][14]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson[15]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot (until 4 June); Samuel Horsley[16][12]
- Bishop of St Davids – Lord George Murray (until 3 June); Thomas Burgess (from 24 July)[17][18][19][20]
Events
- 26 June - First public assembly of the South Wales Unitarian Association.
- Robert Saunderson of Liverpool settles at Bala and becomes official printer to the Calvinistic Methodist Society, working for Thomas Charles.
- 17 July - Thomas Burgess is consecrated Bishop of St David's.[21]
- September - A new company, the Union Iron World Company, is formed to run Rhymney ironworks, after Benjamin Hall takes it over.[22]
- date unknown
- Rhys Davies (Y Glun Bren) preaches from the mounting-block in front of the Black Lion Inn at Talybont in Cardiganshire, beginning Independent Methodist activity there.
- Pascoe Grenfell contracts to trade in copper in the Swansea area.[23]
- Thomas Johnes sets up a private printing press to publish translations of French medieval chronicles.
- Dunraven Castle is built, near Southerndown.
- Benjamin Heath Malkin begins his travels in South Wales.
- Paeonia mascula is discovered growing on the island of Steep Holm - the only species of peony native to the British Isles.[24]
Arts and literature
New books
- J. T. Barber - A Tour Throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire
- Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) - Barddoniaeth
- William Owen Pughe - Geiriadur Cymraeg-Saesneg
Music
Births
- 10 May - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner, industrialist and politician, owner of Margam Castle (died 1890)[25]
- 29 June - Peter Maurice, priest and writer (died 1878)
- 15 September - Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, politician, historian and antiquary (died 1888)[26]
- 17 October - Samuel Holland, industrialist (died 1892)
- 18 October - Sir Richard Green-Price, 1st baronet, Liberal politician (died 1887)
- 23 November - Edward Edwards, zoologist (died 1879)
- 25 December - Sir Hugh Owen Owen, 2nd Baronet (died 1891).[27]
- date unknown
- Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (died 1868)
- Owain Meirion, balladeer (died 1868)
Deaths
- 2 January - Sir Richard Perryn, judge, 79[28]
- 29 April - Thomas Jones, landscape painter, 60[29]
- 3 June - Lord George Murray, Bishop of St David's and developer of the UK's first optical telegraph, 42[30]
- 28 September - Ralph Griffiths, editor and publisher, 83?[31]
- 11 October - Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 58[32]
- date unknown - Thomas Evans, London bookseller, 64[33]
See also
References
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