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Wynne, William Watkin Edward, 1801-1880

  • GB-2014-WSA-18759
  • Person
  • 1801-1880

WYNNE, WILLIAM WATKIN EDWARD, eldest son of William Wynne, Peniarth, Merioneth, and Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Rev. Philip Puleston DD, Vicar of Ruabon, Denbighshire; b. 23 Dec 1801; adm. 27 Sep 1814; Jesus Coll. Oxford, matr. 24 Mar 1820; Junior Clerk, Board of Control (occurs 1830); MP (Conservative) Merioneth 1852-65; DL JP Merioneth, High Sheriff 1867; Constable of Harlech Castle 1874; a learned Welsh antiquary; FSA, re-el 10 Feb 1853; compiled Pedigree of the Family of Wynne 1872, and joint author of a history of Harlech Castle, 1878; m. 8 May 1839 Mary, second dau. of Robert Aglionby Slaney MP, Walford Manor, Shropshire; d. 9 Jun 1880. DNB.

Wynne, Robert, 1690-1762

  • GB-2014-WSA-18756
  • Person
  • 1690-1762

WYNNE, ROBERT, eldest surviving son of Robert Wynne, and Elin, dau. and heiress of Robert Wynne, Plas Mawr, Conway, Caernarvonshire; b. 9 Jul 1690; at school under Knipe (correspondence between Sir John Wynn, Bart., and Duke of Newcastle in 1754, British Library, Add. MSS 32735, ff 345, 388-90); of Bodyscallen, Caernarvonshire; Protonotary and Clerk of the Crown, Caernarvonshire, Anglesey and Merioneth, from 1750; MP Caernarvon District 16 Dec 1754-61; d. Mar 1762.

Wynne, Robert Watkin, ca. 1755-1806

  • GB-2014-WSA-18755
  • Person
  • ca. 1755-1806

WYNNE, ROBERT WATKIN, son of Robert Wynne, Llangwn, Denbighshire, and Mary, dau. of Humphrey Roberts, Bryn y Newydd, Caernarvonshire; b.; adm. 17 Nov 1767; in school list 1771; Jesus Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 May 1773, aged 18; MP Denbighshire 28 Aug 1789-96; High Sheriff, Merioneth 1798; m. by 1777 Anne Sobieski, dau. of Thomas Dod, Edge, Cheshire; d. 2 Mar 1806.

Wynn, Ellis, 1559-1623

  • GB-2014-WSA-18746
  • Person
  • 1559-1623

WYNN, ELLIS, son of Maurice Wynn, Gwydir, Caernarvonshire, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Sir Richard Bulkeley, Kt, Beaumaris, Anglesey; b. before 1559; at school under Grant (Calendar of Wynn Papers, 429); entered household of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury; Gentleman Harbinger, Royal Household, by 1596; MP Saltash 1597; Clerk of the Petty Bag from 14 Nov 1603; m. Ann, dau. of --- Gage, Alderman, City of London [check]; d. 27 Sep 1623. Buried South Aisle of Nave, Westminster Abbey.

Wyndham, Percy Charles, 1757-1833

  • GB-2014-WSA-18741
  • Person
  • 1757-1833

WYNDHAM, HON. PERCY CHARLES, second son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (qv); b. 23 Sep 1757; adm. 17 Oct 1765; KS (Capt. ) 1769; Capt. of the School 1773; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1774, but did not matr.; Chancery Registrar, Jamaica 1763 (still 1780); Secretary and Clerk of the Courts, and Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, Barbados May 1763 - 1820; MP Chichester 11 Mar 1782-4, Midhurst 1790-6; d. unm. 5 Aug 1833.

Wyndham, Charles, 1710-1763

  • GB-2014-WSA-18735
  • Person
  • 1710-1763

WYNDHAM, CHARLES, 2ND EARL OF EGREMONT, son of Right Hon. Sir William Wyndham, Bart., MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his first wife Lady Katherine Seymour, dau. of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset KG; b. 19 Aug 1710; adm. Jan 1718/9; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 May 1725; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1727-30; MP Bridgwater 7 Apr 1735-41, Appleby 1 Jan 1742-7, Taunton 1747 – 7 Feb 1749/50; entered politics as a Tory, but became a Whig in the 1740s; succ. father as 4th baronet 17 Jun 1740, and his maternal uncle, Algernon, 7th Duke of Somerset, as 2nd Earl of Egremont 7 Feb 1749/50; inherited the Duke of Somerset’s estates in Sussex and Cumberland; Lord Lieut., Cumberland 23 Apr 1751 – 13 Dec 1759, Sussex from 15 Jan 1763; named one of the Plenipotentiaries for the intended Congress at Augsburg; Privy Councillor 8 Jul 1761; Secretary of State, Southern Dept., from 9 Oct 1761; conducted the negotiations with Spain 1761-2 and with France 1762; remained in office under the Bute and Grenville governments; member, Society of Dilettanti 1742; Busby Trustee 4 Apr 1754; m. 12 Mar 1750/1 Hon. Alice Maria Carpenter, Lady of Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte, dau. of George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter (I); d. 21 Aug 1763. DNB.

Wyndham, Charles William, 1760-1828

  • GB-2014-WSA-18734
  • Person
  • 1760-1828

WYNDHAM, HON. CHARLES WILLIAM, third son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (qv); b. 8 Oct 1760; adm. 12 May 1767; left Midsummer 1775; Secretary and Clerk of Enrolments, Jamaica May 1763-1816; MP Midhurst 1790 – Jan 1795, New Shoreham 30 May 1795-1802, Sussex 29 Jan 1807-12; m. 4 Feb 1801 Lady Anna Barbara Frances Child-Villiers, widow of William Henry Lambton MP, Lambton, Co. Durham, and dau. of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey; d. 8 Jul 1828.

Wyche, Cyril, d. 1707

  • GB-2014-WSA-18706
  • Person
  • d. 1707

WYCHE, SIR CYRIL, second son of Right Hon. Sir Peter Wyche, PC, Kt, English Ambassador at Constantinople, and Jane, dau. of Sir William Meredith, Kt, Wrexham, Denbighshire; b.; a godson of Cyril Loukaris, Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, after whom he was named; adm.; KS in 1649; contributed a copy of verses to Lacrimae Musarum, 1649; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Nov 1650; BA 17 Feb 1652/3; MA 1655; DCL 1665; LLD Dublin 1692; adm. Gray’s Inn 1 May 1657, called to bar 15 Jun 1670; knighted at The Hague May 1660; one of the Six Clerks in Chancery 28 Jan 1662-75; MP Callington May 1661 – Jan 1678/9, East Grinstead Feb – Mar 1680/1, Saltash 1685-7, Preston 1702-5; Chief Secretary to Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieut. Ireland 1677-82, and to Henry Sidney, Lord Lieut. Ireland, Sep 1692 – Jul 1693; MP (I) Dublin University 17 Sep 1692 – 26 Jun 1693; Privy Councillor (I) 1692; one of the Lord Justices of Ireland 1693-5; a Commissioner for Irish Forfeitures 1700; FRS 20 May 1663, President 30 Nov 1683 – 30 Nov 1684; lic. to m. 1st, 2 Aug 1663 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Jermyn, Rushbrooke, Suffolk; lic. to m. 2nd, 29 Jul 1684 Susanna, dau. of Sir Herbert Perrott, Kt, MP, Haroldstone, Pembs., and dau. of Sir Francis Norreys, Kt, Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire; m. 3rd, 15 May 1692 Mary, eldest dau. of George Evelyn, Wotton, Surrey; d. 29 Dec 1707. DNB.

Wrottesley, John, 1771-1841

  • GB-2014-WSA-18689
  • Person
  • 1771-1841

WROTTESLEY, JOHN, 1st BARON WROTTESLEY, eldest son of Sir John Wrottesley, Bart. (qv); b. 25 Oct 1771; adm. 31 Jan 1782; expelled as one of the ringleaders in the rebellion up School in Dr. Smith’s time (two letters in the Wrottesley MSS giving an account of the rebellion, calendared HMC Report, ii, 48, were destroyed in a fire at Wrottesley Hall 16 Dec 1897); succ. father as 9th baronet 23 Apr 1787; Ensign, 35th Foot 24 Sep 1787; Lieut., 19th Foot 2 Jun 1790; 29th Foot 25 Jun 1790; Capt., 16th Light Dragoons 26 Feb 1793; Maj., 32nd Foot 28 Apr 1794; retd. Aug 1795; served in Flanders 1793-5; a partner in a banking firm at Wolverhampton, Staffs., c. 1816-34; MP Lichfield 2 Mar 1799-1806, Staffordshire 23 Jul 1823-32, South Staffordshire 1832-7; created Baron Wrottesley 11 Jul 1838; initially a supporter of Pitt, but took Whig whip in House of Commons and House of Lords from 1823 onwards; FSA (by 1831); m. 1st, 23 Jun 1795 Lady Caroline Bennet, eldest dau. of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville; m. 2nd, 19 May 1819 Julia, widow of Capt. Hon. John Astley Bennet, Royal Navy, and dau. of John Conyers (qv); d. 16 Mar 1841. DNB.

Wrottesley, John, 1744-1787

  • GB-2014-WSA-18688
  • Person
  • 1744-1787

WROTTESLEY, SIR JOHN, BART., only son of Very Rev. Sir Richard Wrottesley, Bart., Dean of Worcester, previously MP, and Lady Mary Leveson Gower, second dau. of John Leveson Gower, 1st Earl Gower (qv), and his first wife; nephew of John Wrottesley (qv); b. 22 Dec 1744; at school under Markham (“History of the Family of Wrottesley”, in Collections for a History of Staffordshire, vi, NS, pt. ii, 377); a Page of Honour to George II and III 9 Apr 1759 – Jun 1761; Ensign and Lieut., 2nd Foot Guards 4 Mar 1761; Capt., 85th Foot 12 Apr 1762; Equerry to Duke of York, whom he accompanied abroad in 1767; Capt. -Lieut. and Lieut. -Col., 1st Foot Guards 10 Nov 1770; 3rd Maj., (with rank of Col. in the Army) 23 Apr 1779; 2nd Maj., 22 Feb 1781; 1st Maj., 18 Mar 1782; commanding 1st battn., 1st Foot Guards 1782-5; Major-Gen., 20 Nov 1782; Col., 45th Foot, from 18 Oct 1784; served in American War 1776-8; MP Newcastle under Lyme 22 Mar – Jun 1768, Staffordshire from 5 Jul 1768; succ. father as 8th baronet 20 Jul 1769; DCL Oxford 8 Jul 1773; m. 7 Jun 1770 Hon. Frances Courtenay, Maid of Honour to Queen Charlotte, dau. of William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay (qv); d. 23 Apr 1787.

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