1903 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1903 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1903 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1903 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa MônHywel Teifi Edwards The Eisteddfod https://books.google.com/books?id=K81RDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT39 20 July 2016 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-914-6 39 Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron GlanuskDod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes Dod 1921 356 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest GreavesNational Museum of Wales Adroddiad Blynyddol The Museum 1935 3 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-EvansThe 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 Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th BaronetThe Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion The Society 1986 63 Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West Potter Matthew The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present Routledge Abingdon, Oxon 2016 9781351545471 149 Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert HughesJournal 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 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynnehttps://cylchgronau.llyfrgell.cymru/view/2043441/2044175/159 Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society 1891-92 National Library of Wales 15 March 2022 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount TredegarCyril James Oswald Evans Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography W. Lewis (printers) 1953 190 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdors-CAMP-VAU-1847 Campbell, Frederick Archibald Vaughan, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911) Glyn Roberts 1959 20 March 2022 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett MilbankWhitaker's Almanack Joseph Whitaker Whitaker's Almanack 1913 847 Bishop of Bangor – Watkin WilliamsBurke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage Burke's Peerage Limited 1925 2437 Bishop of Llandaff – Richard LewisDavid Henry Williams Catalogue of Seals in the National Museum of Wales: Seal dies, Welsh seals, papal bullae National Museum of Wales 1993 75 Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, 978-0-19-954087-7 Bishop of St Davids – John Owens-OWEN-JOH-1854 Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 1959 19 March 2022 Events 4 April - Operations begin on Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway. Wrexham and District Electric Tramways.The Golden Age of Tramways Taylor and Francis 14 November - End of the lock-out at Penrhyn Quarry near Bethesda (begun 1900), the longest major industrial dispute in British history.Cyril Parry The radical tradition in Welsh politics: a study of Liberal and Labour politics in Gwynedd, 1900-1920 https://books.google.com/books?id=Bl_tAAAAMAAJ 1970 University of Hull 9 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"Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair 2021-02-27 eisteddfod.wales 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead Crown - John Evans Davies Cinema July - William Haggar releases Desperate Poaching Affray, seen as an important influence on the chase genre of film.Peter Yorke William Haggar: Fairground Film Maker https://books.google.com/books?id=44y7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA150-IA39 3 November 2011 Accent Press Ltd 978-1-908262-64-6 150 New books English language J. Romilly Allen - Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian TimesColum Hourihane From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Period and Its European Context https://books.google.com/books?id=PggIclfQfx0C&pg=PA205 2001 Princeton University Press 0-691-08825-X 205 Sabine Baring-Gould - A Book of North WalesSabine Baring-Gould A Book of North Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=A04gDQAAQBAJ 1903 Library of Alexandria 978-1-4656-0836-9 Bertrand Russell - The Principles of Mathematics Welsh language Jonathan Ceredig Davies - Awstralia Orllewinolhttps://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-CER-1859 Davies, Jonathan Ceredig (1859-1932), traveller, genealogist, and folk-lorist William Williams Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 18 October 2019 D. M. Lewis - Cofiant y Diweddar Barchedig Evan Lewis, Brynberian, 1813-96https://biography.wales/article/s-LEWI-MOR-1851 Lewis, David Morgan (1851-1937), Congregational minister, afterwards professor of physics Gildas Tibbott Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 18 October 2019 Llyfe Mormon (translation of the Book of Mormon)Journal of History https://books.google.com/books?id=A-cWAQAAIAAJ 1921 35 Music Sport Births 1 January – Horace Evans, royal physician (died 1963)Harold Oxbury Great Britons: Twentieth-Century Lives https://books.google.com/books?id=9coZAAAAYAAJ 1985 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-211599-7 113 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)Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 17 April – Thomas Rowland Hughes, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1949) 1 May – Geraint Goodwin, writer (died 1941)s2-GOOD-GER-1903 Goodwin, Geraint (1903-1941), author Gwyn Jones 2001 28 March 2022 9 May – Tudor Watkins, Baron Watkins, politician (died 1983) 6 June – Ceri Richards, artist (died 1971)John Rothenstein Modern English painters https://books.google.com/books?id=jAw3AQAAIAAJ 1984 Macdonald 978-0-356-10354-9 287 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) Stephens Meic Necrologies: a book of Welsh obituaries Seren Bridgend, Wales 2008 9781854114761 112 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)Ann Evory Hal May Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers https://archive.org/details/contemporaryauth113halm registration October 1985 Gale 978-0-8103-1915-8 350 Deaths 15 January – David Howell, Dean of St Davids, 71The Dean Of St. Davids. The Times Friday, Jan 16, 1903; pg. 4; Issue 36979; col C 30 January – William Jones, historian, 73https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-WIL-1829 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 17 February – Joseph Parry, composer, 61Owain Tudor Edwards Joseph Parry, 1841-1903 https://books.google.com/books?id=v5e0AAAAIAAJ 1 January 1970 Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru 59 19 February - Samuel Arthur Brain, businessman and politician, 53Mr S. A. Brain Dead - Popular Representative Of Public Life https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3376006/3376007 Weekly Mail (Wales and the West of England) 1 21 February 1903 Welsh Newspapers Online 8 March – Morgan Thomas, surgeon, 78Morgan Thomas 0-dict-biogT-V.html#thomas2 12 April – Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer, 85https://biography.wales/article/s-EVAN-SIL-1818 EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818-1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer Richard Edmund Hughes Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 1 January 2019 18 May – Richard Mills the younger, composer and music teacher, 62/3 Humphreys Maggie Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland Mansell London Herndon, VA 1997 9780720123302 234 19 June – Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 71The Catholic Directory of England and Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=IzUsAQAAMAAJ 1981 Hierarchy 12 24 June – Richard Fothergill, coal-owner and politician, 80Price Watkin William Richard Fothergill III Welsh Biography Online https://biography.wales/article/s-FOTH-GIL-1758 15 August – John Pryce, clergyman and writer, Dean of Bangor, 73https://biography.wales/article/s-PRYC-JOH-1828 Pryce, John (1828-1903), dean of Bangor Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 13 February 2020 13 October – Morgan B. Williams, Welsh-born United States politician, 72Lewis 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 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ayhc5XU7smAC&q=morgan+b.+williams&pg=PA107 April 5, 2020 18 September – Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician, 80Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes https://books.google.com/books?id=LSFHAQAAMAAJ 1903 Vinton 403 9 December – Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist, 87 date unknown Sir Walter Morgan, judge, about 82 Riddick John Who was who in British India Greenwood Press Westport, Conn 1998 9780313292323 261 See also 1903 in Ireland References 1903 Wales Category:1903 in Europe Category:1900s in Wales