1903 in Wales explained

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^[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
  • Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.
  • Wrexham and District Electric Tramways.^[16]
• 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

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
• 12 April – Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer, 85^[35]
• 18 May – Richard Mills the younger, composer and music teacher, 62/3^[36]
• 19 June – Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 71^[37]
• 24 June – Richard Fothergill, coal-owner and politician, 80^[38]
• 15 August – John Pryce, clergyman and writer, Dean of Bangor, 73^[39]
• 13 October – Morgan B. Williams, Welsh-born United States politician, 72^[40]
• 18 September – Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician, 80^[41]
• 9 December – Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist, 87
• date unknown Sir Walter Morgan, judge, about 82^[42]

See also

• 1903 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Hywel Teifi Edwards. The Eisteddfod. 20 July 2016. University of Wales Press. 978-1-78316-914-6. 39.
2. Book: Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. 356.
3. Book: National Museum of Wales. Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. 1935. 3.
4. Book: The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. 443.
5. Book: The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. 1986. 63.
6. Book: Potter, Matthew . The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present . Routledge . Abingdon, Oxon . 2016 . 9781351545471 . 149.
7. Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales. Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625. Henry Taylor. Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales. 1895. 304.
8. Web site: Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society 1891-92. National Library of Wales. 15 March 2022.
9. Book: Cyril James Oswald Evans. Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography. W. Lewis (printers). 1953. 190.
10. s-CAMP-VAU-1847. Campbell, Frederick Archibald Vaughan, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911). Glyn Roberts. 1959. 20 March 2022.
11. Book: Whitaker's Almanack. Joseph Whitaker. Whitaker's Almanack. 1913. 847.
12. Book: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1925. 2437.
13. Book: David Henry Williams. Catalogue of Seals in the National Museum of Wales: Seal dies, Welsh seals, papal bullae. National Museum of Wales. 1993. 75.
14. [Who's Who (UK)#Who Was Who|''Who was Who 1897–2007'']
15. s-OWEN-JOH-1854. Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. 1959. 19 March 2022.
16. Book: The Golden Age of Tramways. Taylor and Francis.
17. Book: Cyril Parry. The radical tradition in Welsh politics: a study of Liberal and Labour politics in Gwynedd, 1900-1920. 1970. University of Hull. 9.
18. Web site: Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod. 2021-02-27. eisteddfod.wales.
19. Book: Peter Yorke. William Haggar: Fairground Film Maker. 3 November 2011. Accent Press Ltd. 978-1-908262-64-6. 150.
20. Book: Colum Hourihane. From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Period and Its European Context. 2001. Princeton University Press. 0-691-08825-X. 205.
21. Book: Sabine Baring-Gould. A Book of North Wales. 1903. Library of Alexandria. 978-1-4656-0836-9.
22. Web site: Davies, Jonathan Ceredig (1859-1932), traveller, genealogist, and folk-lorist. William Williams. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 18 October 2019.
23. Web site: Lewis, David Morgan (1851-1937), Congregational minister, afterwards professor of physics. Gildas Tibbott. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 18 October 2019.
24. Book: Journal of History. 1921. 35.
25. Book: Harold Oxbury. Great Britons: Twentieth-Century Lives. 1985. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-211599-7. 113.
26. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/66051 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
27. s2-GOOD-GER-1903. Goodwin, Geraint (1903-1941), author. Gwyn Jones. 2001. 28 March 2022.
28. Book: John Rothenstein. Modern English painters. 1984. Macdonald. 978-0-356-10354-9. 287.
29. Book: Stephens, Meic . Necrologies: a book of Welsh obituaries . Seren . Bridgend, Wales . 2008 . 9781854114761 . 112.
30. Book: Ann Evory. Hal May. Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers. registration. October 1985. Gale. 978-0-8103-1915-8. 350.
31. The Dean Of St. Davids. The Times Friday, Jan 16, 1903; pg. 4; Issue 36979; col C
32. Web site: Jones, William (Bleddyn; 1829?-1903), antiquary, local historian, geologist, and collector of folk-lore. Benjamin George Owens. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 16 February 2021.
33. Book: Owain Tudor Edwards. Joseph Parry, 1841-1903. 1 January 1970. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. 59.
34. News: Mr S. A. Brain Dead - Popular Representative Of Public Life . Weekly Mail . (Wales and the West of England) . 1 . 21 February 1903 . Welsh Newspapers Online .
35. Web site: EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818-1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer. Richard Edmund Hughes. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 1 January 2019.
36. Book: Humphreys, Maggie . Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . Mansell . London Herndon, VA . 1997 . 9780720123302 . 234.
37. Book: The Catholic Directory of England and Wales. 1981. Hierarchy. 12.
38. Web site: Price. Watkin William. Richard Fothergill III. Welsh Biography Online.
39. Web site: Pryce, John (1828-1903), dean of Bangor. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. 13 February 2020.
40. Book: Lewis . Ronald L. . Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields . 2008 . The University of North Carolina Press . 978-0-8078-3220-2 . 107–108 . April 5, 2020.
41. Book: Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. 1903. Vinton. 403.
42. Book: Riddick, John . Who was who in British India . Greenwood Press . Westport, Conn . 1998 . 9780313292323 . 261 .