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 Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, Bishop of St Davids – John Owen
Events 4 April - Operations begin on Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway. Wrexham and District Electric Tramways. 14 November - End of the lock-out at Penrhyn Quarry near Bethesda (begun 1900), the longest major industrial dispute in British history. 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" Crown - John Evans Davies
Cinema July - William Haggar releases Desperate Poaching Affray, seen as an important influence on the chase genre of film.
New books English language J. Romilly Allen - Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times Sabine Baring-Gould - A Book of North Wales Bertrand Russell - The Principles of Mathematics
Welsh language Jonathan Ceredig Davies - Awstralia Orllewinol D. M. Lewis - Cofiant y Diweddar Barchedig Evan Lewis, Brynberian, 1813-96 Llyfe Mormon (translation of the Book of Mormon)
Music
Sport
Births 1 January – Horace Evans, royal physician (died 1963) 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) 9 May – Tudor Watkins, Baron Watkins, politician (died 1983) 6 June – Ceri Richards, artist (died 1971) 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) 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)
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, 73 17 February – Joseph Parry, composer, 61 19 February - Samuel Arthur Brain, businessman and politician, 53 8 March – Morgan Thomas, surgeon, 78 12 April – Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer, 85 18 May – Richard Mills the younger, composer and music teacher, 62/3 19 June – Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 71 24 June – Richard Fothergill, coal-owner and politician, 80 15 August – John Pryce, clergyman and writer, Dean of Bangor, 73 13 October – Morgan B. Williams, Welsh-born United States politician, 72 18 September – Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician, 80 9 December – Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist, 87 date unknown Sir Walter Morgan, judge, about 82
See also 1903 in Ireland
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