1903 in Wales

1903 in Wales
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1903 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1903

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1903 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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 lifeboat station on Ynys Llanddwyn.

William Haggar releases Desperate Poaching Affray, seen as an important influence on the chase genre of film.

1 January - Horace Evans, royal physician (died 1963)
9 February - Gipsy Daniels, Welsh boxer
17 April - Thomas Rowland Hughes, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 1949)
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)
22 November - David Rees-Williams, Baron Ogmore (died 1976)
2 December - Jim Sullivan, Wales and British Isles rugby league player (died 1977)
date unknown
- Dorothy Edwards, novelist (died 1934)
- Gwilym R. Jones, poet and editor (died 1993)
- Will Paynter, miners’ leader (died 1984)
- Glyn Simon, Archbishop of Wales 1968-71) (died 1972)