1703 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1703 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• 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

• 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

New books

• 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

• Thomas Baddy – hymns appended to Pasc y Christion[16]

Births

• 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

• 10 May – Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62[19]
• 16 July – Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan, 96[20]

See also

• 1703 in Scotland

References

1. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Stanley, Peter (1998). The house of Stanley : the history of an English family from the 12th century. Edinburgh: Pentland Press. p. 196. ISBN 9781858215785.
4. The Herald and Genealogist, volume 3. 1866. p. 288.
5. Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
6. Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
7. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 77.
8. 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.
9. Robert Stephen. "Hanbury family, of Pontypool industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
10. "Complete baronetage Volume 3". W. Pollard & co. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
11. Arthur Herbert Dodd. "Herbert family, earls of Pembroke (second creation)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
12. 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.
13. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Owen, James (1654-1706), Dissenting divine and tutor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
14. Lloyd, John Edward (1900). "Wynne, Ellis" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 261–262.
15. 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.
16. "Baddy, Thomas (died 1729), Independent minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
17. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Richard (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
18. Shropshire Parish Registers, Hereford Diocese, Volume V - Bromfield Registers 1559-1812. Shropshire Parish Register Society. 1909. p. 76.Baptism date.
19. "Jones, Edward (1641-1703)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
20. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1956. p. 23.