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.
• 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.^[1] 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.
• Richard Muspratt sets up an alkali manufacturing factory in Flint.
• Alliance Insurance Company set up in Wrexham, advertising itself as the only Welsh insurance company.

Arts and literature

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