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]
- 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
Music
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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
- ^ 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.