1903 in Wales
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
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 1903 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Script error: No such module "For".
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans[4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank[11]
- Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams[12]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis[13]
- Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)[14]
- Bishop of St Davids – 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 – Horace Evans, royal physician (died 1963)[25]
- 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)[26]
- 17 April – Thomas Rowland Hughes, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1949)
- 1 May – Geraint Goodwin, writer (died 1941)[27]
- 9 May – Tudor Watkins, Baron Watkins, politician (died 1983)
- 6 June – Ceri Richards, artist (died 1971)[28]
- 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)[29]
- 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)[30]
Deaths
- 15 January – David Howell, Dean of St Davids, 71[31]
- 30 January – William Jones, historian, 73[32]
- 17 February – Joseph Parry, composer, 61[33]
- 19 February - Samuel Arthur Brain, businessman and politician, 53[34]
- 8 March – Morgan Thomas, surgeon, 78[35]
- 12 April – Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer, 85[36]
- 18 May – Richard Mills the younger, composer and music teacher, 62/3[37]
- 19 June – Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 71[38]
- 24 June – Richard Fothergill, coal-owner and politician, 80[39]
- 15 August – John Pryce, clergyman and writer, Dean of Bangor, 73[40]
- 13 October – Morgan B. Williams, Welsh-born United States politician, 72[41]
- 18 September – Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician, 80[42]
- 9 December – Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist, 87
- date unknown Sir Walter Morgan, judge, about 82[43]
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Template:Cite DWB
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, Template:ISBN
- ↑ Template:Cite DWB
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ Template:Cite DWB
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ The Dean Of St. Davids. The Times Friday, Jan 16, 1903; pg. 4; Issue 36979; col C
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".