1803 in Wales

1803 in Wales
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1803 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1803

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

Incumbents

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.
Dunraven Castle 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.^[1]

10 May - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, owner of Margam Castle (died 1890)
29 June - Peter Maurice, priest and writer (died 1878)
15 September - Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, politician, historian and antiquary (died 1888)^[2]
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)
date unknown
- Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (died 1868)
- Owain Meirion, balladeer (died 1868)

2 January - Sir Richard Perryn, judge, 79
29 April - Thomas Jones, landscape painter, 60
3 June - Lord George Murray, Bishop of St David's and developer of the UK's first optical telegraph, 42
28 September - Ralph Griffiths, editor and publisher, 83?
30 December - Francis Lewis, signer of the US Declaration of Independence, 90
date unknown - Thomas Evans, London bookseller, 64

1803 in Europe

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