1703 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1703 to Wales and its people.

← 1702 1701 1700 1699 1698 1703 in Wales → 1704 1705 1706 1707 1708
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1703 in England Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 30 March - Catherine Price, sister of Richard Price, marries William Thomas of Cefn Ydfa, Llangynwyd; they would become the parents of Ann Maddocks.[1]
• July - John Hanbury II marries Bridget Ayscough, the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Ayscough of Stallingbough, Lincolnshire. Sir Edward's only son having died, Bridget inherits a share of his estates and brings a fortune of £10,000 to the marriage.[2]
• 20 July - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, marries Lady Essex Finch, daughter of the Earl of Nottingham.[3]
• 28 August - Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor, marries Charlotte Herbert, daughter of Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, and widow of John Jeffreys, 2nd Baron Jeffreys[4]
• date unknown
  • Baptist leader Thomas Griffiths and a small group of followers settle at Welsh Tract, Delaware, where they found the Welsh Tract Baptist church.[5]

Arts and literature

New books

• James Owen - Moderation a Virtue[6]
• Ellis Wynne - Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc[7]
• Pasc y Christion (translation of a work by Thomas Doolittle)[8]

Music

• Thomas Baddy - hymns appended to Pasc y Christion[9]

Births

• 2 February - Richard Morris, one of the celebrated Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1779)[10]
• probable - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (d. 1772)[11]

Deaths

• 10 May - Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62[12]

See also

• 1703 in Scotland

References

1. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Maddocks (née Thomas), Ann (1704-1727), 'the Maid of Cefn Ydfa'". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
2. Robert Stephen. "Hanbury family, of Pontypool industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
3. "Complete baronetage Volume 3". W. Pollard & co. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
4. Arthur Herbert Dodd. "Herbert family, earls of Pembroke (second creation)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
5. Benjamin George Owens. "Griffiths, Thomas (1645-1725), first minister of the Welsh Tract Baptist church in the present state of Delaware, U.S.A." Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
6. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Owen, James (1654-1706), Dissenting divine and tutor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
7. Lloyd, John Edward (1900). "Wynne, Ellis" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 261–262.
8. David Walker (1976). A History of the Church in Wales. Church in Wales Publications for the Historical Society of the Church in Wales. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-85326-010-3.
9. "Baddy, Thomas (died 1729), Independent minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
10. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Richard (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
11. Shropshire Parish Registers, Hereford Diocese, Volume V - Bromfield Registers 1559-1812. Shropshire Parish Register Society. 1909. p. 76.Baptism date.
12. "Jones, Edward (1641-1703)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.