1952 in Wales

1952 in Wales
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1952 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1952

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

Incumbents

5 July - Six miners are killed in a mining accident at Point of Ayr colliery in north Wales.
3 September - Mahmood Hussein Mattan is the last person to be executed at Cardiff Prison.
Opening of Claerwen reservoir.
Lake Bala bursts its banks and floods many parts of the Vale of Edeyrnion.
Following the retirement of Hugh O'Neill, David Grenfell becomes Father of the House.
Pennar Davies becomes Principal of Swansea Memorial College.

Dylan Thomas records a collection of five of his poems, including Fern Hill and Do not go gentle into that good night, along with the short prose A Child's Christmas in Wales for Caedmon Audio in New York.

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

3 March – John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones, ship-owner and politician, 63
25 April – Sir Milsom Rees, surgeon, 86
25 August – James Kitchener Davies, poet, dramatist, and nationalist, 50
23 October – Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, politician, 95
28 October – William Morris Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia
28 November – Ernie George, Wales international rugby player
2 December – Tom Jackson, Wales international rugby player, 82
15 December (in London) – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor, 92
26 December (in London) – Lyn Harding, actor, 85
31 December – John Cledwyn Davies, politician, 83