1752 in Wales

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

Events

April â A quarryman is killed in an attempted raid on a granary at Caernarfon.^[8]
5 June â Frances, mother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, purchases the Mathafarn estate on her son's behalf.^[9]
9 November â 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 TÅ·-mawr farm, Bryncroes.

Arts and literature

New books

John Evans â Some Account of the Welch Charity Schools^[11]
Theophilus Evans â A History of Modern Enthusiasm

Music

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

Births

2 January â Nicholas Owen, priest and antiquary (died 1811)
18 January
- Josiah Boydell, painter (died 1817)
- John Nash, architect (died 1835)^[14]
March â Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (died 1824)^[15]
5 November â Richard Richards, judge (died 1823)
12 December â 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 â James Bulkeley, 6th Viscount Bulkeley, 35^[17]
31 May â "Madam" Sidney Griffith, Methodist (born c.1720)
17 November â Thomas Powell, politician, about 51^[18]
probable â Edward Roberts, mayor of Philadelphia, province of Pennsylvania (born c.1690)

References

[1]
J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
[2]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
[3]
Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. p. 235.
[4]
Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690â1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
[5]
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales,. University Press. p. 255.
[6]
The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
[7]
Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 305.
[8]
Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "Riot in 1752". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 107â110. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
[9]
The Montgomeryshire Collections. Clifton Press. 1872. p. 495.
[10]
Benedetto, Robert (1999). Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group. p. 130. ISBN 9780810866294.
[11]
William Rowlands (1869). Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales... J. Prysc. p. 431.
[12]
"Wales". Romantic National Song Network. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
[13]
Griffith Thomas Roberts. "Llwyd, Harri (died 1799), Wesleyan lay preacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
[14]
Thomas Mardy Rees. "Nash, John (1752-1835), architect". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
[15]
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.
[16]
Griffith, John (1985). Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire families, with their collateral branches in Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and other parts. Wrexham, Clwyd: Bridge Books. p. 43. ISBN 9780950828558.
[17]
Debrett, John (1822). The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. 2. London: J. Moyes. pp. 1092â1093.
[18]
"Powell, Thomas (c.1701â52), of Nanteos, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 23 November 2018.

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