1852 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales; 1852 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1852 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

24 February – The Times reports that Robert Stephenson has approved Isambard Kingdom Brunel's design for a railway bridge at Chepstow.
10 May – 27 men are killed by quicksand at Gwendraeth Colliery, Pontyberem.^[1]
August – Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones begins his second (4-year) mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales.^[2] He also oversees translation of the Book of Mormon into the Welsh language.
14 September – Three-decker sailing first-rate ship of the line HMS Duke of Wellington, converted on the stocks to screw propulsion, is launched at Pembroke Dock.
4 November – In the United Kingdom general election:
- Walter Coffin becomes the first Nonconformist MP elected in Wales.
- Henry Vivian becomes MP for Truro.
- Crawshay Bailey becomes MP for Monmouth Boroughs.
December – In the by-election caused by the death of John Josiah Guest, Henry Austin Bruce is elected MP for Merthyr Tydfil.
date unknown
- St David's College, Lampeter, becomes the first institution in Wales to award degrees.^[3]
- Construction of the first Merthyr Synagogue begins.
- Richard Muspratt sets up an alkali manufacturing factory in Flint.^[4]
- Alliance Insurance Company set up in Wrexham, advertising itself as the only Welsh insurance company.

Arts and literature

New books

Aneurin Jones – Tafol y Beirdd
William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Aelwyd F'Ewythr Robert
John Williams (Glanmor) – Awstralia a'r Cloddfeydd Aur
Robert Williams – Enwogion Cymru: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen, from the Earliest Times

Music

J. Ambrose Lloyd – Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear
Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) – Ystorm Tiberias (oratorio)
Thomas Williams (Hafrenydd) – Ceinion Cerddoriaeth

Births

20 March – John Gwenogvryn Evans, palaeographer (died 1930)^[5]
26 April – William Eilir Evans, journalist (died 1910)^[6]
28 April – Sir Francis Edwards, 1st Baronet, Liberal politician (died 1927)
11 May – Sir David Saunders Davies, MP (died 1934)
25 November – Sir Evan Vincent Evans, Eisteddfod supporter (died 1934)^[7]
December – Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), writer (died 1943)^[8]
date unknown
- Ann Harriet Hughes (Gwyneth Vaughan), novelist (died 1910)^[9]
- David Brynmor Jones, barrister, historian and Liberal MP (died 1921)^[10]

Deaths

23 February – Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd), minister and journalist, 31
2 May – John Jones (Ioan Tegid), poet, 60^[11]
20 May – Robert Williamson, poet, 45?
26 November – John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur and politician, 77^[12]

References

^ Reference Wales. University of Wales Press. 1994. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-7083-1234-6.
^ Williams, David (2009). "Jones, Daniel". Welsh Biography Online. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
^ David Trevor William Price (1987). Bishop Burgess and Lampeter College. University of Wales Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-7083-0965-0.
^ Peter John Turnbull Morris; Colin Archibald Russell; John Graham Smith (1988). Archives of the British chemical industry, 1750-1914: a handlist. British Society for the History of Science. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-906450-06-2.
^ Alexander Hopkins McDonnald (1951). The Encyclopedia Americana. Americana Corporation. p. 592.
^ David Gwenallt Jones. "Evans, William Eilir; 1852-1910), cleric, poet, and journalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
^ Thomas Jones. "Evans, Evan (later Sir Evan Vincent Evans); 1852 (or 1851)-1934), eisteddfodwr, and secretary of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
^ Margaret Beatrice Davies. "Jones, Alice Gray (Ceridwen Peris); 1852-1943), author (1852-1921)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
^ Williams, Richard Bryn (1981), "Hughes, Annie Harriet", Dictionary of Welsh Biography, retrieved 6 July 2020
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones (later Brynmor-Jones), Sir David Brynmor (1852-1921), lawyer and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
^ Y Cylchgrawn: at wasanaeth crefydd, llenyddiaeth, gwleidiadaeth, ac hanesiaeth (in Welsh). 1869. p. 33.
^ Madeleine Elsas (1960). Iron in the making: Dowlais Iron Company letters, 1782-1860. County Records Committee of the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions & County Council. p. viii.

[1] Reference Wales. University of Wales Press. 1994. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-7083-1234-6.

[2] Williams, David (2009). "Jones, Daniel". Welsh Biography Online. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Retrieved 10 June 2014.

[3] David Trevor William Price (1987). Bishop Burgess and Lampeter College. University of Wales Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-7083-0965-0.

[4] Peter John Turnbull Morris; Colin Archibald Russell; John Graham Smith (1988). Archives of the British chemical industry, 1750-1914: a handlist. British Society for the History of Science. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-906450-06-2.

[5] Alexander Hopkins McDonnald (1951). The Encyclopedia Americana. Americana Corporation. p. 592.

[6] David Gwenallt Jones. "Evans, William Eilir; 1852-1910), cleric, poet, and journalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.

[7] Thomas Jones. "Evans, Evan (later Sir Evan Vincent Evans); 1852 (or 1851)-1934), eisteddfodwr, and secretary of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.

[8] Margaret Beatrice Davies. "Jones, Alice Gray (Ceridwen Peris); 1852-1943), author (1852-1921)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.

[9] Williams, Richard Bryn (1981), "Hughes, Annie Harriet", Dictionary of Welsh Biography, retrieved 6 July 2020

[10] Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones (later Brynmor-Jones), Sir David Brynmor (1852-1921), lawyer and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.

[11] Y Cylchgrawn: at wasanaeth crefydd, llenyddiaeth, gwleidiadaeth, ac hanesiaeth (in Welsh). 1869. p. 33.

[12] Madeleine Elsas (1960). Iron in the making: Dowlais Iron Company letters, 1782-1860. County Records Committee of the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions & County Council. p. viii.

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