1903 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1903 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George V)
- Princess of Wales - Mary
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Hwfa Môn
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.
- 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
- 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
- Bertrand Russell - The Principles of Mathematics
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)
- 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)
- 22 November – David Rees-Williams, Baron Ogmore (died 1976)
- 2 December – Jim Sullivan, Wales and British Isles rugby league player (died 1977)
- 6 December – Will Paynter, miners’ leader (died 1984)
Deaths
- 17 February – Joseph Parry, composer, 61
- 8 March – Morgan Thomas, surgeon, 78
- 12 April – Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer, 85
- 19 June – Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 71
- 13 October – Morgan B. Williams, United States politician, 72
- 18 September – Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician, 80
- 9 December – Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist, 87
References
- ↑ The Golden Age of Tramways. Taylor and Francis.
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