1903 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1903 to Wales and its people.

← 1902 1901 1900 1899 1898 1903 in Wales → 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1903 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George V)
• Princess of Wales - Mary
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Hwfa Môn[1]

Events

• 4 April - Operations begin on
  • Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.
  • Wrexham and District Electric Tramways.[2]
• 14 November - End of the lock-out at Penrhyn Quarry near Bethesda (begun 1900), the longest major industrial dispute in British history.[3]
• 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"[4]
  • Crown - John Evans Davies

Cinema

• July - William Haggar releases Desperate Poaching Affray, seen as an important influence on the chase genre of film.[5]

New books

English language

• J. Romilly Allen - Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times[6]
• Sabine Baring-Gould - A Book of North Wales[7]
• Bertrand Russell - The Principles of Mathematics

Welsh language

• Jonathan Ceredig Davies - Awstralia Orllewinol[8]
• D. M. Lewis - Cofiant y Diweddar Barchedig Evan Lewis, Brynberian, 1813-96[9]
• Llyfe Mormon (translation of the Book of Mormon)[10]

Music

Sport

Births

• 1 January – Horace Evans, royal physician (died 1963)[11]
• 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)[12]
• 17 April – Thomas Rowland Hughes, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1949)
• 1 May – Geraint Goodwin, writer (died 1941)
• 9 May – Tudor Watkins, Baron Watkins, politician (died 1983)
• 6 June – Ceri Richards, artist (died 1971)[13]
• 22 June – Harry Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1978)
• 18 August – Dorothy Edwards, novelist (died 1934)
• 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)[14]

Deaths

• 17 February – Joseph Parry, composer, 61[15]
• 19 February - Samuel Arthur Brain, businessman and politician, 53[16]
• 8 March – Morgan Thomas, surgeon, 78
• 12 April – Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer, 85[17]
• 19 June – Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 71[18]
• 24 June – Richard Fothergill, coal-owner and politician, 80[19]
• 15 August – John Pryce, clergyman and writer, Dean of Bangor, 73[20]
• 13 October – Morgan B. Williams, United States politician, 72
• 18 September – Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician, 80[21]
• 9 December – Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist, 87

References

1. Hywel Teifi Edwards (20 July 2016). The Eisteddfod. University of Wales Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-78316-914-6.
2. The Golden Age of Tramways. Taylor and Francis.
3. Cyril Parry (1970). The radical tradition in Welsh politics: a study of Liberal and Labour politics in Gwynedd, 1900-1920. University of Hull. p. 9.
4. "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
5. Peter Yorke (3 November 2011). William Haggar: Fairground Film Maker. Accent Press Ltd. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-908262-64-6.
6. Colum Hourihane (2001). From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Period and Its European Context. Princeton University Press. p. 205. ISBN 0-691-08825-X.
7. Sabine Baring-Gould (1903). A Book of North Wales. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 978-1-4656-0836-9.
8. William Williams. "Davies, Jonathan Ceredig (1859-1932), traveller, genealogist, and folk-lorist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
9. Gildas Tibbott. "Lewis, David Morgan (1851-1937), Congregational minister, afterwards professor of physics". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
10. Journal of History. 1921. p. 35.
11. Harold Oxbury (1985). Great Britons: Twentieth-Century Lives. Oxford University Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-19-211599-7.
12. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
13. John Rothenstein (1984). Modern English painters. Macdonald. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-356-10354-9.
14. Ann Evory; Hal May (October 1985). Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers. Gale. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-8103-1915-8.
15. Owain Tudor Edwards (1 January 1970). Joseph Parry, 1841-1903. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. p. 59.
16. "Mr S. A. Brain Dead - Popular Representative Of Public Life". Weekly Mail. (Wales and the West of England). 21 February 1903. p. 1 – via Welsh Newspapers Online.
17. Richard Edmund Hughes. "EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
18. The Catholic Directory of England and Wales. Hierarchy. 1981. p. 12.
19. Price, Watkin William. "Richard Fothergill III". Welsh Biography Online.
20. "Pryce, John (1828-1903), dean of Bangor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
21. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. Vinton. 1903. p. 403.