1803 in Wales

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

← 1802 1801 1800 1799 1798 1803 in Wales → 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1803 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (until 11 October); Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (from 4 November)^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – vacant until 1804
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford^[2][10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley^[11][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – William Cleaver^[12][13][14]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[15]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot (until 4 June); Samuel Horsley^[16][12]
• Bishop of St Davids – Lord George Murray (until 3 June); Thomas Burgess (from 24 July)^{[17][18][19][20]}

Events

• 26 June - 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.
• 17 July - Thomas Burgess is consecrated Bishop of St David's.^[21]
• September - A new company, the Union Iron World Company, is formed to run Rhymney ironworks, after Benjamin Hall takes it over.^[22]
• date unknown
  • 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.^[23]
  • Thomas Johnes sets up a private printing press to publish translations of French medieval chronicles.
  • Dunraven Castle is built, near Southerndown.
  • Benjamin Heath Malkin begins his travels in South Wales.
  • Paeonia mascula is discovered growing on the island of Steep Holm - the only species of peony native to the British Isles.^[24]

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

• 10 May - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner, industrialist and politician, owner of Margam Castle (died 1890)^[25]
• 29 June - Peter Maurice, priest and writer (died 1878)
• 15 September - Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, politician, historian and antiquary (died 1888)^[26]
• 17 October - Samuel Holland, industrialist (died 1892)
• 18 October - Sir Richard Green-Price, 1st baronet, Liberal politician (died 1887)
• 23 November - Edward Edwards, zoologist (died 1879)
• 25 December - Sir Hugh Owen Owen, 2nd Baronet (died 1891).^[27]
• date unknown
  • Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (died 1868)
  • Owain Meirion, balladeer (died 1868)

Deaths

• 2 January - Sir Richard Perryn, judge, 79^[28]
• 29 April - Thomas Jones, landscape painter, 60^[29]
• 3 June - Lord George Murray, Bishop of St David's and developer of the UK's first optical telegraph, 42^[30]
• 28 September - Ralph Griffiths, editor and publisher, 83?^[31]
• 11 October - Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 58^[32]
• date unknown - Thomas Evans, London bookseller, 64^[33]

See also

• 1803 in Ireland

References

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2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
6. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
7. "not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
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9. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
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16. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
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21. The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral, & Philosophical Knowledge. 1825. p. 689.
22. Arthur Clark (1962). The Story of Monmouthshire. C. Davies. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-9506618-0-3.
23. Todd, A. C. (1972). The industrial archaeology of Cornwall. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. p. 22. ISBN 9780715355909.
24. "The Peony Society - Steep Holm". Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
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26. History of the collection, British Museum, accessed July 2010
27. Escott, Margaret. "Owen, Hugh Owen (1803–1891), of Williamston and Llanstinan, Pemb". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
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32. William Arthur Shaw (1970). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day... Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 48.
33. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Evans, Thomas (1739-1803), and Evans, Thomas (1742-1784), two London booksellers". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 February 2020.