1752 in Wales

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry
• Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond
• Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor

Events

• April – A quarryman is killed in an attempted raid on a granary at Caernarfon.
• 5 June – Frances, mother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, purchases the Mathafarn estate on her son's behalf.
• 9 November – Richard Trevor becomes Bishop of Durham.
• unknown dates
• * Howell Harris founds the Teulu Trefeca
• * Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, builds New Hawarden Castle.
• * A turnpike road opens between Wrexham and Shrewsbury.
• * The first Methodist chapel in Caernarfonshire is built on land adjoining Tŷ-mawr farm, Bryncroes.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Evans – Some Account of the Welch Charity Schools
• Theophilus Evans – ''A History of Modern Enthusiasm''

Music

• John Parry – A Collection of Welsh, English & Scotch Airs
• Harri Llwyd – ''Hymnau ar Amryw Ystyriaethau''

Births

• 2 January – Nicholas Owen, priest and antiquary
• 18 January
• * Josiah Boydell, painter
• * John Nash, architect
• March – Edward Jones, harpist
• 5 November – Richard Richards, judge
• 12 December – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, politician date unknown
• * Richard Llwyd, poet and writer
• * Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist

Deaths

• 23 April – James Bulkeley, 6th Viscount Bulkeley, 35
• 31 May – "Madam" Sidney Griffith, Methodist
• 17 November – Thomas Powell, politician, about 51
• probable – Edward Roberts, mayor of Philadelphia, province of Pennsylvania