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1903 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1903 to Wales and its people.

Contents

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
  • 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
  • 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

    • 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

    1903 in Wales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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