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)
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