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, Prince Regent
• 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

1. The Peony Society - Steep Holm
2. History of the collection, British Museum, accessed July 2010