1903 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales, son of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - Mary of Teck
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Hwfa Môn

Events

*End of the lock-out at Penrhyn Quarry, near Bethesda - the longest major industrial dispute in British history.
*Sygun Copper Mine is abandoned.
*Closure of the lifeboat 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

New books

*Bertrand Russell - "The Principles of Mathematics"

Music

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port

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Births

*April 17 - Thomas Rowland Hughes, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1949)
*May 9 - Tudor Watkins, Baron Watkins, politician (died 1983)
*June 6 - Ceri Richards, artist (died 1971)
*November 22 - David Rees-Williams, Baron Ogmore (died 1976)
*"date unknown"
**Dorothy Edwards, novelist (died 1934)
**Horace Evans, royal physician
**Gwilym R. Jones, poet and editor (died 1993)
**Will Paynter, miners’ leader (died 1984)
**Glyn Simon, Archbishop of Wales 1968-71) (died 1972)

Deaths

*February 17 - Joseph Parry, composer
*March 8 - Morgan Thomas, surgeon
*April 12 - Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer
*June 19 - Herbert Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster
*October 13 - Morgan B. Williams, United States politician
*September 18 - Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician
*"date unknown"
**Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist
**Watcyn Wyn, preacher and poet