1903 in Wales

← 1902 1901 1900 1899 1898 1903 in Wales → 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1903 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

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.
• 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