1952 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - "vacant" (Charles, Prince of Wales, had not been officially designated with the title)
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"
*Archbishop of Wales - John Morgan
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Cynan

Events

*Opening of Claerwen reservoir.
*Lake Bala bursts its banks and floods many parts of the Vale of Edeyrnion.
*5 July - Six miners are killed in an accident at Point of Ayr colliery in north Wales.
*Following the retirement of Hugh O'Neill, David Grenfell becomes Father of the House.
*Pennar Davies becomes Principal of Swansea Memorial College.

Arts and literature

*Richard Bebb marries Gwen Watford.

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Aberystwyth)
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - John Evans
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - "withheld"
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Owen Elias Roberts

New books

*Islwyn Ffowc Elis - "Cyn Oeri'r Gwaed"
*Jack Jones - "Lily of the Valley"
*T. J. Morgan - "Y Treigladau a’u Cystrawen"
*John Dyfnallt Owen - "Rhamant a Rhyddid"
*R. Williams Parry - "Cerddi'r Gaeaf"
*Bertrand Russell - "The Impact of Science on Society"
*Richard Vaughan - "Moulded in Earth"
*Raymond Williams - "Drama from Ibsen to Eliot"

Music

*David Wynne - "Symphony no. 1"

Film

*Richard Burton stars in "My Cousin Rachel".

Broadcasting

*12 March - Tommy Cooper's TV series, "It's Magic", begins its run.
*15 August - The Wenvoe television transmitter enters service.
*26 August - Hit radio series "Welsh Rarebit" transfers to television.

port

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

Births

*22 March - David Jones, politician
*5 May - Andrew Davies AM, politician
*12 June - Jed Williams, jazz journalist
*7 September - Irene James AM, politician
*17 November - David Emanuel, fashion designer
*20 November - Karen Sinclair, politician
*"date unknown"
**Hilary Bevan Jones, television producer
**Robert Minhinnick, poet

Deaths

*3 March - John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones, ship-owner and politician
*25 April - Sir Milsom Rees, surgeon
*25 August - Kitchener Davies, writer
*23 October - Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, politician
*28 October - William Morris Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia
*15 December (in London) - Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor
*26 December - Lyn Harding, actor
*31 December - John Cledwyn Davies, politician