1852 in Wales

1852 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*February 24 - "The Times" reports that Robert Stephenson has approved Isambard Kingdom Brunel's design for a railway bridge at Chepstow.
*May 10 - 27 men are killed by quicksand at Gwendraeth Colliery, Pontyberem.
*November 4 - 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.

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

*March 20 - John Gwenogvryn Evans, palaeographer (died 1930)
*April 26 - William Eilir Evans, journalist (died 1910)
*April 28 - Sir Francis Edwards, 1st Baronet, Liberal politician (died 1927)
*May 11 - Sir David Saunders Davies, MP (died 1934)
*November 25 - Sir Evan Vincent Evans, Eisteddfod supporter (died 1934)
*December - Alice Gray Jones (Ceridwen Peris), writer (died 1943)

Deaths

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


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