1903 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1903 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents[]
- Monarch - Edward VII
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Hwfa Môn[1]
Events[]
- 4 April - Operations begin on
- 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 -
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[]
- 30 January – William Jones, historian, 73[15]
- 17 February – Joseph Parry, composer, 61[16]
- 19 February - Samuel Arthur Brain, businessman and politician, 53[17]
- 8 March – Morgan Thomas, surgeon, 78
- 12 April – Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer, 85[18]
- 18 May – Richard Mills the younger, composer and music teacher, 62/3[19]
- 19 June – Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 71[20]
- 24 June – Richard Fothergill, coal-owner and politician, 80[21]
- 15 August – John Pryce, clergyman and writer, Dean of Bangor, 73[22]
- 13 October – Morgan B. Williams, United States politician, 72
- 18 September – Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician, 80[23]
- 9 December – Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist, 87
References[]
- ^ Hywel Teifi Edwards (20 July 2016). The Eisteddfod. University of Wales Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-78316-914-6.
- ^ The Golden Age of Tramways. Taylor and Francis.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Winners of the Chair | National Eisteddfod". eisteddfod.wales. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
- ^ Peter Yorke (3 November 2011). William Haggar: Fairground Film Maker. Accent Press Ltd. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-908262-64-6.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sabine Baring-Gould (1903). A Book of North Wales. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 978-1-4656-0836-9.
- ^ William Williams. "Davies, Jonathan Ceredig (1859-1932), traveller, genealogist, and folk-lorist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Journal of History. 1921. p. 35.
- ^ Harold Oxbury (1985). Great Britons: Twentieth-Century Lives. Oxford University Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-19-211599-7.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ John Rothenstein (1984). Modern English painters. Macdonald. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-356-10354-9.
- ^ Ann Evory; Hal May (October 1985). Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers. Gale. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-8103-1915-8.
- ^ Benjamin George Owens. "Jones, William (Bleddyn; 1829?-1903), antiquary, local historian, geologist, and collector of folk-lore". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ Owain Tudor Edwards (1 January 1970). Joseph Parry, 1841-1903. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. p. 59.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Humphreys, Maggie (1997). Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. London Herndon, VA: Mansell. p. 234. ISBN 9780720123302.
- ^ The Catholic Directory of England and Wales. Hierarchy. 1981. p. 12.
- ^ Price, Watkin William. "Richard Fothergill III". Welsh Biography Online.
- ^ "Pryce, John (1828-1903), dean of Bangor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. Vinton. 1903. p. 403.
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