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1803 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1803 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
  • Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

    • Events

  • June - Thomas Burgess becomes Bishop of St David's.
  • June 26 - First public assembly of the South Wales Unitarian Association.
  • Robert Saunderson of Liverpool settles at Bala and becomes official printer to the Calvinistic Methodist Society, working for Thomas Charles.
  • Rhys Davies (Y Glun Bren) preaches from the mounting-block in front of the Black Lion Inn at Talybont in Cardiganshire, beginning Independent Methodist activity there.
  • Pascoe Grenfell contracts to trade in copper in the Swansea area.
  • Benjamin Hall buys the Rhymney ironworks.
  • Thomas Johnes sets up a private printing press to publish translations of French medieval chronicles.
  • Dunraven Castle built near Southerndown.
  • Benjamin Heath Malkin begins his travels in South Wales.
  • Paeonia mascula is discovered growing on the island of Steep Holm - the only species of peony native to the British Isles.

    • New books

  • J. T. Barber - A Tour Throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire
  • Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) - Barddoniaeth
  • William Owen Pughe - Geiriadur Cymraeg-Saesneg

    • Births

  • 10 May - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, owner of Margam Castle (died 1890)
  • 29 June - Peter Maurice, priest and writer (died 1878)
  • 15 September - Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, politician, historian and antiquary (died 1888)
  • 17 October - Samuel Holland, industrialist (died 1892)
  • 18 October - Sir Richard Green-Price, 1st baronet, Liberal politician (died 1887)
  • 23 November - Edward Edwards, zoologist (died 1879)
  • date unknown
  • Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (died 1868)
  • Owain Meirion, balladeer (died 1868)

    • Deaths

  • 2 January - Sir Richard Perryn, judge, 79
  • 29 April - Thomas Jones, landscape painter, 60
  • 3 June - Lord George Murray, Bishop of St David's and developer of the UK's first optical telegraph, 42
  • 28 September - Ralph Griffiths, editor and publisher, 83?
  • 30 December - Francis Lewis, signer of the US Declaration of Independence, 90
  • date unknown - Thomas Evans, London bookseller, 64

    • References

    1803 in Wales Wikipedia
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