1803 in Wales

1803 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
*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.
*Benjamin Heath Malkin begins his travels in South Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

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

Music

Births

*May 10 - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, owner of Margam Castle (d. 1890)
*October 17 - Samuel Holland, industrialist (d. 1892)
*"date unknown" - Owain Meirion, balladeer (d. 1868)

Deaths

*January 2 - Sir Richard Perryn, judge, 79
*April 29 - Thomas Jones, landscape painter, 60
*June 3 - Lord George Murray, Bishop of St David's and developer of the UK's first optical telegraph, 42


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