1903 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1903 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank
- Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
- Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards
- Bishop of St Davids – John Owen
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, 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, "Y Celt"
- *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
English language
- J. Romilly Allen - Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times
- Sabine Baring-Gould - A Book of North Wales
- Bertrand Russell - ''The Principles of Mathematics''
Welsh language
- Jonathan Ceredig Davies - Awstralia Orllewinol
- D. M. Lewis - Cofiant y Diweddar Barchedig Evan Lewis, Brynberian, 1813-96
- ''Llyfe Mormon''
Births
- 1 January – Horace Evans, royal physician
- 9 February – Gipsy Daniels, Welsh boxer
- 24 March – Gwilym R. Jones, poet and editor
- 14 April – Glyn Simon, Archbishop of Wales
- 17 April – Thomas Rowland Hughes, novelist, poet and dramatist
- 1 May – Geraint Goodwin, writer
- 9 May – Tudor Watkins, Baron Watkins, politician
- 6 June – Ceri Richards, artist
- 22 June – Harry Phillips, Wales international rugby player
- 18 August – Dorothy Edwards, novelist
- 8 November – Ronald Lockley, ornithologist and naturalist
- 22 November – David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore
- 2 December – Jim Sullivan, Wales and British Isles rugby league player
- 6 December
- *E. D. Jones, librarian of National Library of Wales
- *Will Paynter, miners’ leader
Deaths
- 15 January – David Howell, Dean of St Davids, 71
- 30 January – William Jones, historian, 73
- 17 February – Joseph Parry, composer, 61
- 19 February - Samuel Arthur Brain, businessman and politician, 53
- 8 March – Morgan Thomas, surgeon, 78
- 12 April – Daniel Silvan Evans, writer and lexicographer, 85
- 18 May – Richard Mills the younger, composer and music teacher, 62/3
- 19 June – Herbert Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 71
- 24 June – Richard Fothergill, coal-owner and politician, 80
- 15 August – John Pryce, clergyman and writer, Dean of Bangor, 73
- 13 October – Morgan B. Williams, Welsh-born United States politician, 72
- 18 September – Sir Llewellyn Turner, politician, 80
- 9 December – Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist, 87
- date unknown Sir Walter Morgan, judge, about 82