1952 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1952 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1952 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

10 January – An Aer Lingus Douglas DC-3 aircraft on a London–Dublin flight crashes in Wales due to vertical draft in the mountains of Snowdonia, killing twenty passengers and the three crew.^[1]^[2]
5 July – Six miners are killed in a mining accident at Point of Ayr colliery in north Wales.
15 August – Wenvoe transmitting station begins broadcasting 405-line VHF BBC Television to south Wales and the west of England on Band I channel 5 (66.75 MHz).^[3]
3 September - Mahmood Hussein Mattan is the last person to be executed at Cardiff Prison.
19 October - A small Welsh republican group, Y Gweriniaethwyr, make an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the water pipeline leading from the Claerwen dam in mid Wales to Birmingham.^[4]
23 October – Opening of Claerwen reservoir, the first engagement carried out in Wales by Elizabeth II since her accession as Queen of the United Kingdom.^[5] She first sets foot in Wales as monarch at Llandrindod railway station.^[6]
Lake Bala bursts its banks and floods many parts of the Vale of Edeirnion.
Following the retirement of Hugh O'Neill, David Grenfell becomes Father of the House.
Pennar Davies becomes Principal of Swansea Memorial College.

Renoir's La Parisienne is one of the works of art bequeathed to the people of Wales by Gwendoline Davies in 1952.

Gwendoline Davies bequeaths a large part of her art collection to the National Museum of Wales, including Renoir's La Parisienne.

Dylan Thomas records a collection of five of his poems, including Fern Hill and Do not go gentle into that good night, along with the short prose A Child's Christmas in Wales for Caedmon Audio in New York.

Rugby union – Wales win their fifth Grand Slam.
Summer Olympics – Harry Llewellyn wins a gold medal in the team showjumping competition, riding Foxhunter.

3 March – John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones, shipowner and politician, 63
25 April (in Broadstairs) – Sir John Milsom Rees, surgeon, 86
25 August – James Kitchener Davies, poet, dramatist and nationalist, 50
23 October – Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, politician, 95
28 October (in Sydney) – Billy Hughes, London-born Prime Minister of Australia, 90
11 November – Sir William Llewelyn Davies, national librarian, 65
28 November – Ernie George, Wales international rugby player, c.81
2 December – Tom Jackson, Wales international rugby player, 82
15 December (in London) – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor, 92
26 December (in London) – Lyn Harding, actor, 85
31 December – John Cledwyn Davies, politician, 83

↑ Yates, A. H. (1953-01-02). "Airflow over Mountains". Flight. 63 (2293): 2–3. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
↑ White, Kevin (2012-01-26). "60th anniversary of Aer Lingus disaster". Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
↑ Pawley, Edward (1972). BBC Engineering 1922–1972. BBC Publications. p. 374. ISBN 0-563-12127-0.
↑ Gruffydd, Gethin (13 February 2007). "Welsh Republican Movement 1946–1956: Time Line". Alternative Welsh Nationalist Archive. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
↑ "Claerwen Dam Opened By The Queen: Birmingham's Link With Wales". The Times (52451). London. 1952-10-24. p. 4.
↑ "The Station". Powys Built Heritage. Retrieved 2013-03-05.

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