1752 in Wales

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Events from the year 1752 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George III)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• April - A quarryman is killed in an attempted raid on a granary at Caernarfon.[1]
• 9 November - Richard Trevor becomes Bishop of Durham.
• Howell Harris founds the Teulu Trefeca ("The Trefeca family")
• Frances, mother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, purchases the Mathafarn estate on her son's behalf.
• 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[2]
• Harri Llwyd - Hymnau ar Amryw Ystyriaethau[3]

Births

• 2 January - Nicholas Owen, priest and antiquary (died 1811)
• 18 January
  • Josiah Boydell, painter (died 1817)
  • John Nash, architect (died 1835)[4]
• March - Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (died 1824)[5]
• 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[6]
• 31 May - "Madam" Sidney Griffith, Methodist (born c.1720)
• probable - Edward Roberts, mayor of Philadelphia, USA (born c.1690)

References

1. 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.
2. "Wales". Romantic National Song Network. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
3. Griffith Thomas Roberts. "Llwyd, Harri (died 1799), Wesleyan lay preacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
4. Thomas Mardy Rees. "Nash, John (1752-1835), architect". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
5. 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.
6. Debrett, John (1822). The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. 2. London: J. Moyes. pp. 1092–1093.