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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.

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.

Wyndham, ---, fl. ca. 1716
GB-2014-WSA-18733 · Person · fl. ca. 1716

WYNDHAM, ---; b.; in under school lists 1716-21.

Wyn, Edmund, ca. 1711-?
GB-2014-WSA-18732 · Person · ca. 1711-?

WYN, EDMUND; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1723/4; in under school list 1727.

Wyllott, Robert, fl. 1552
GB-2014-WSA-18731 · Person · fl. 1552

WYLLOTT, ROBERT; b.; adm.; KS ; left 1552 (Chapter Muniments).

Wyllmot, ---, fl. 1570
GB-2014-WSA-18730 · Person · fl. 1570

WYLLMOT, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1570 (Chapter Muniments).

GB-2014-WSA-18729 · Person · 1910-1948

Wyllie, Thomas Hunter Steen, son of Thomas William Wyllie of Golders Green and Carrie Louisa, d. of Hunter Steen of Belfast; b. 26 Aug. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (A), non-res. KS Sept. 1924; left July 1929; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1929, Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse 1930, Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse 1933; BA 1933, MA 1936; Asst Principal War Office 1934; PS to Under-Sec. of State for War 1935; 2nd Lieut. RA Apr. 1943, resigned July 1944; d. 21 Aug. 1948.

GB-2014-WSA-18728 · Person · 1903-1942

Wyllie, John Gordon, son of William Wyllie, of Bayswater, by Ida Dorothy Mercer, daughter of George Woods, of Bromley, Kent; b. Dec. 18, 1903; adm. Jan. 17, 1918 (A); left July 1921; a member of the London Stock Exchange, 1929; d. Feb. 6, 1942.

Wylkynsone, Thomas, fl. 1553
GB-2014-WSA-18727 · Person · fl. 1553

WYLKYNSONE, THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS 10 Aug 1553 (Chapter Muniments).

Wylie, William Percy, 1898-?
GB-2014-WSA-18726 · Person · 1898-?

Wylie, William Percy, son of the Rev. William Samuel Wylie, Presbyterian minister, of Ealing, by Elizabeth, daughter of James Goodman, of Clapham Park, London; b. April 18, 1898; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (H); left July 1915; served in France in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. Tank Corps Nov. 3, 1917; Peterhouse Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1921; M.A. 1925; ordained deacon 1929, priest 1930 (Chelmsford); Curate of Hornchurch, Essex, 1929-32; of Uckfield, Sussex, 1932-4; of St. Augustine, Bexhill, 1934-5; Curate-in-charge of St. Richard, Haywards Heath, 1935-9, and Vicar 1939-45; Vicar of St. Patrick, Hove, 1945-8; Lecturer for Committee for Moral Education, Dioceses of Gloucester, Worcester and Coventry from 1949; m. April 12, 1932, Ruth, daughter of Chesman Barker, M.B., of West Worthing, Sussex.