1752 in Wales

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Events from the year 1752 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• April - A quarryman is killed in an attempted raid on a granary at Caernarfon.^[1]
• November 9 - 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

Births

• January 2 - Nicholas Owen, priest and antiquary (died 1811)
• January 18
  • Josiah Boydell, painter (died 1817)
  • John Nash, architect (died 1835)
• March - Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (died 1824)
• 5 November - Richard Richarrds, 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

• May 31 - "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.