This article is about the particular significance of the year 1703 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
edit- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2] (10 June – 5 November 1702)[3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke[2][5]
- Bishop of Bangor – John Evans[6]
- Bishop of Llandaff – William Beaw[6]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Edward Jones (until 10 May); George Hooper (from 13 October)[7]
- Bishop of St Davids – vacant
Events
edit- 30 March – Catherine Price, sister of Richard Price, marries William Thomas of Cefn Ydfa, Llangynwyd; they would become the parents of Ann Maddocks.[8]
- July – John Hanbury II marries Bridget Ayscough, the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Ayscough of Stallingbough, Lincolnshire. Sir Edward's only son having died, Bridget inherits a share of his estates and brings a fortune of £10,000 to the marriage.[9]
- 20 July – Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, marries Lady Essex Finch, daughter of the Earl of Nottingham.[10]
- 28 August – Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor, marries Charlotte Herbert, daughter of Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, and widow of John Jeffreys, 2nd Baron Jeffreys[11]
- date unknown
- Baptist leader Thomas Griffiths and a small group of followers settle at Welsh Tract, Delaware, where they found the Welsh Tract Baptist church.[12]
Arts and literature
editNew books
edit- James Owen – Moderation a Virtue[13]
- Ellis Wynne – Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc[14]
- Pasc y Christion (translation of a work by Thomas Doolittle)[15]
Music
edit- Thomas Baddy – hymns appended to Pasc y Christion[16]
Births
edit- 2 February – Richard Morris, one of the celebrated Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1779)[17]
- probable – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (d. 1772)[18]
Deaths
edit- 10 May – Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62[19]
- 16 July – Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan, 96[20]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ a b J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Stanley, Peter (1998). The house of Stanley : the history of an English family from the 12th century. Edinburgh: Pentland Press. p. 196. ISBN 9781858215785.
- ^ The Herald and Genealogist, volume 3. 1866. p. 288.
- ^ Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
- ^ a b Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
- ^ Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 77.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Maddocks (née Thomas), Ann (1704-1727), 'the Maid of Cefn Ydfa'". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Robert Stephen. "Hanbury family, of Pontypool industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ "Complete baronetage Volume 3". W. Pollard & co. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ Arthur Herbert Dodd. "Herbert family, earls of Pembroke (second creation)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Benjamin George Owens. "Griffiths, Thomas (1645-1725), first minister of the Welsh Tract Baptist church in the present state of Delaware, U.S.A.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Owen, James (1654-1706), Dissenting divine and tutor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Lloyd, John Edward (1900). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 261–262.
- ^ David Walker (1976). A History of the Church in Wales. Church in Wales Publications for the Historical Society of the Church in Wales. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-85326-010-3.
- ^ "Baddy, Thomas (died 1729), Independent minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Richard (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Shropshire Parish Registers, Hereford Diocese, Volume V - Bromfield Registers 1559-1812. Shropshire Parish Register Society. 1909. p. 76.Baptism date.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1956. p. 23.