title: 1703 in Wales
text: # 1703 in Wales
  
  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 (10 June – 5 November 1702)
  * Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
  * Bishop of Bangor – John Evans
  * Bishop of Llandaff – William Beaw
  * Bishop of St Asaph – Edward Jones (until 10 May); George Hooper (from 13 October)
  * 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.
  * 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.
  * 20 July – Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, marries Lady Essex Finch, daughter of the Earl of Nottingham.
  * 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
  * 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.
  
  ## Arts and literature
  
  ### New books
  
  * James Owen – Moderation a Virtue
  * Ellis Wynne – Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc
  * Pasc y Christion (translation of a work by Thomas Doolittle)
  
  ### Music
  
  * Thomas Baddy – hymns appended to Pasc y Christion
  
  ## Births
  
  * 2 February – Richard Morris, one of the celebrated Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1779)
  * probable – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis (d. 1772)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 10 May – Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62
  * 16 July – Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan, 96
  