1803 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1803 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
[edit] 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.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- J. T. Barber - A Tour Throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire
- Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) - Barddoniaeth
- William Owen Pughe - Geiriadur Cymraeg-Saesneg
[edit] Music
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
