1752 in Wales explained

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^{[1] [2]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond^[6]
• Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor (until 7 December)^[7]

Events

• April – A quarryman is killed in an attempted raid on a granary at Caernarfon.^[8]
• 5 June – Frances, mother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, purchases the Mathafarn estate on her son's behalf.^[9]
• 9 November – Richard Trevor becomes Bishop of Durham.^[7]
• unknown dates
  • Howell Harris founds the Teulu Trefeca ("The Trefeca family")^[10]
  • 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^[11]
• Theophilus Evans – A History of Modern Enthusiasm

Music

• John Parry – A Collection of Welsh, English & Scotch Airs^[12]
• Harri Llwyd – Hymnau ar Amryw Ystyriaethau^[13]

Births

• 2 January – Nicholas Owen, priest and antiquary (died 1811)
• 18 January
  • Josiah Boydell, painter (died 1817)
  • John Nash, architect (died 1835)^[14]
• March – Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (died 1824)^[15]
• 5 November – Richard Richards, judge (died 1823)
• 12 December – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, politician (died 1822)^[16]
• 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^[17]
• 31 May – "Madam" Sidney Griffith, Methodist (born c.1720)
• 17 November – Thomas Powell, politician, about 51^[18]
• probable – Edward Roberts, mayor of Philadelphia, province of Pennsylvania (born c.1690)

Notes and References

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