1752 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1752 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

November 9 - Richard Trevor becomes Bishop of Durham.
Howell Harris founds the Teulu Trefeca ("The Trefeca family")
Frances, mother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, purchases the Mathafarn estate on her son's behalf.
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.

January 2 - Nicholas Owen, clergyman and antiquary (died 1811)
January 18
- Josiah Boydell, painter (died 1817)
- John Nash, architect (died 1835)
March - Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (died 1824)
date unknown
- Richard Llwyd, poet and writer (died 1835)
- Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist (died 1828)