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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 Tŷ-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)
References
- ^ J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. p. 235.
- Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
- Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales,. University Press. p. 255.
- The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 305.
- Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "Riot in 1752". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 107–110. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
- The Montgomeryshire Collections. Clifton Press. 1872. p. 495.
- Benedetto, Robert (1999). Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group. p. 130. ISBN 9780810866294.
- William Rowlands (1869). Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales... J. Prysc. p. 431.
- "Wales". Romantic National Song Network. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- Griffith Thomas Roberts. "Llwyd, Harri (died 1799), Wesleyan lay preacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- Thomas Mardy Rees. "Nash, John (1752-1835), architect". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- Tecwyn Ellis. "Jones, Edward (Bardd y Brenin; 1752-1824), harpist, arranger and publisher of harp music". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- Griffith, John (1985). Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire families, with their collateral branches in Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and other parts. Wrexham, Clwyd: Bridge Books. p. 43. ISBN 9780950828558.
- Debrett, John (1822). The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. 2. London: J. Moyes. pp. 1092–1093.
- "Powell, Thomas (c.1701–52), of Nanteos, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 23 November 2018.