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1852 in Wales

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

Contents

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.
  • 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. 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.
  • St David's College, Lampeter, becomes the first institution in Wales to award degrees.
  • Construction of the first Merthyr Synagogue begins.

    • 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)
  • 26 April — William Eilir Evans, journalist (died 1910)
  • 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)
  • December — Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), writer (died 1943)

    • Deaths

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

    • References

    1852 in Wales Wikipedia
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