1803 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1803 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
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.
- 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]
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
Births
- 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)
Deaths
- 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
References
- ↑ The Peony Society - Steep Holm
- ↑ History of the collection, British Museum, accessed July 2010
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