1903 in Wales

← 1902 1901 1900 1903 in Wales → 1904 1905 1906
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1903 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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
  • Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.
  • Wrexham and District Electric Tramways.^[1]
• 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.

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, 1st 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

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