1752 in Wales

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

Events

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

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
 * Harri Llwyd – Hymnau ar Amryw Ystyriaethau

Births

 * 2 January – Nicholas Owen, priest and antiquary (died 1811)
 * 18 January
 * Josiah Boydell, painter (died 1817)
 * John Nash, architect (died 1835)
 * March – Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (died 1824)
 * 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
 * 31 May – "Madam" Sidney Griffith, Methodist (born c.1720)
 * 17 November – Thomas Powell, politician, about 51
 * probable – Edward Roberts, mayor of Philadelphia, province of Pennsylvania (born c.1690)