1803 in Wales explained

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

• 1803 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Book: Edwin Poole. The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. 1886. 378.
6. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
7. Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. not known. William Retlaw Williams. "Old Wales" Office. 1907. 3. 106.
8. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
9. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
10. s-PHIL-PIC-1491. Philipps family, of Picton. Bertie George Charles. 1959. 19 October 2021.
11. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
12. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
13. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
14. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Handbook of British chronology . New York Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England . 1996 . 9780521563505 . 292.
15. Book: John Henry James. A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. 1898. 16.
16. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
17. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 307.
18. Book: The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. 95.
19. Book: The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3. George III (King of Great Britain). University Press. 1967. 434.
20. Web site: Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas . The Royal Society . 30 October 2020.
21. Book: The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral, & Philosophical Knowledge. 1825. 689.
22. Book: Arthur Clark. The Story of Monmouthshire. 1962. C. Davies. 978-0-9506618-0-3. 80.
23. Book: Todd, A. C. . The industrial archaeology of Cornwall . David and Charles . Newton Abbot . 1972 . 9780715355909 . 22.
24. Web site: The Peony Society - Steep Holm . 2011-01-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728100222/http://www.thepeonysociety.org/Steep_Holm.html . 2011-07-28 . dead .
25. Book: John Hodgson. John Hodgson-Hinde. A History of Northumberland: The topography and local antiquities, arranged in parishes. 3 v. 1827. E. Walker. 212.
26. https://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/departments/prehistory_and_europe/history_of_the_collection.aspx History of the collection
27. Web site: Escott. Margaret. Owen, Hugh Owen (1803–1891), of Williamston and Llanstinan, Pemb.. The History of Parliament. 14 March 2018.
28. Perryn, Richard.
29. Book: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. 1984. The Society..
30. Book: John Hodgson. John Hodgson-Hinde. A History of Northumberland: The topography and local antiquities, arranged in parishes. 3 v. 1827. E. Walker. 212.
31. Book: James King. Faking. 1 April 1999. Dundurn. 978-1-55488-529-9. 28.
32. Book: William Arthur Shaw. The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day.... Genealogical Publishing Company. 1970. 48.
33. s1-EVAN-THO-1739. Evans, Thomas (1739-1803), and Evans, Thomas (1742-1784), two London booksellers. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 6 February 2020.