# 1852 in Wales

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

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor (until 9 April); John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor (from 4 May)
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May)
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
* Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
* Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

## 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.
* 14 May – 64 men are killed by underground explosion at Middle Duffryn Colliery, Aberdare.
* 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.
* date unknown
** 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.
** The Alliance Insurance Company is 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)
* 26 April – William Eilir Evans, journalist (died 1910)
* 28 April – Sir Francis Edwards, 1st Baronet, Liberal politician (died 1927)
* 25 November – Sir Evan Vincent Evans, Eisteddfod supporter (died 1934)
* December – Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), writer (died 1943)
* date unknown
** Ann Harriet Hughes (Gwyneth Vaughan), novelist (died 1910)
** David Brynmor Jones, barrister, historian and Liberal MP (died 1921)

## Deaths

* 23 February – Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd), minister and journalist, 31
* 9 April – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 86
* 2 May – John Jones (Ioan Tegid), poet, 60
* 20 May – Robert Williamson ("Bardd Du Môn"), poet, 45?
* 17 June – John Page (Ioan Glan Dyfrdwy), poet, 21/22
* 26 November – John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur and politician, 77
* 18 December – Evan Owen Allen, writer, 47