1752 in Wales

Events from the year 1752 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry
• Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond
• Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor (until 7 December)

Events

• April – A quarryman is killed in an attempted raid on a granary at Caernarfon.
• 5 June – Frances, mother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, purchases the Mathafarn estate on her son's behalf.
• 9 November – Richard Trevor becomes Bishop of Durham.
• unknown dates
• Howell Harris founds the Teulu Trefeca ("The Trefeca family")
• Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, builds New Hawarden Castle.
• A turnpike road opens between Wrexham and Shrewsbury.
• The first Methodist chapel in Caernarfonshire is built on land adjoining TÅ·-mawr farm, Bryncroes.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Evans – Some Account of the Welch Charity Schools
• Theophilus Evans – A History of Modern Enthusiasm

Music

• John Parry – A Collection of Welsh, English & Scotch Airs
• Harri Llwyd – Hymnau ar Amryw Ystyriaethau

Births

• 2 January – Nicholas Owen, priest and antiquary (died 1811)
• 18 January
• Josiah Boydell, painter (died 1817)
• John Nash, architect (died 1835)
• March – Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (died 1824)
• 5 November – Richard Richards, judge (died 1823)
• 12 December – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, politician (died 1822)
• date unknown
• Richard Llwyd, poet and writer (died 1835)
• Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist (died 1828)

Deaths

• 23 April – James Bulkeley, 6th Viscount Bulkeley, 35
• 31 May – "Madam" Sidney Griffith, Methodist (born c.1720)
• 17 November – Thomas Powell, politician, about 51
• probable – Edward Roberts, mayor of Philadelphia, province of Pennsylvania (born c.1690)

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