WILLIS, ---; b.; in under school list 1732, school lists 1733-7.
WILLIS, ---; b.; in under school list 1715.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, WILLIAM WATKIN, brother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (in school lists 1764-5, qv); b.; at school under Markham (J. E. Griffith, Predigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families, 1914, 19); d. at school of smallpox 12 Apr 1759.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, SIR WATKIN, BART., eldest son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm. 1784, qv); b. 22 May 1820; adm. 18 Jun 1832 (Benthall's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 May 1837; Cornet, 1st Life Guards 19 Jul 1839; Lieut., 27 Sep 1842; retd. 7 Jul 1843; succ. father as 6th Baronet 6 Jan 1840; MP (Cons) Denbighshire from 1841; ADC (Volunteers) to Queen Victoria 1881; member, Society of Dilettanti 1883; Busby Trustee 20 May 1879; used to come to the School on St. David’s Day until the last year of his life to ask for an “Early Play” and to tip all the Welsh boys (and “Monos”) a sovereign each; m. 28 Apr 1852 his cousin Mary Emily, youngest dau. of Right Hon. Sir Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn PC KCB GCH, diplomat; d. 9 May 1885.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, SIR WATKIN, BART., eldest son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (in school lists 1764-5, qv); b. 26 Oct 1772; adm. 23 Mar 1784; succ. father as 5th baronet 29 Jul 1789; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1789; DCl 4 Jul 1793; Mp Beaumaris 20 Oct 1794-6, Denbighshire from 1796; Lord Lieut., Merioneth from 4 Dec 1793, and of Denbighshire from 4 Apr 1796; Col., Royal Denbigh Militia 15 Jan 1797 (still 1820), also Col., Denbighshire Yeomanry; ADC (Welsh Militia) to William IV and Queen Victoria; member, Society of Dilettanti 1806; known as “the Prince of Wales” because of the influence which he possessed in the Principality; m. 4 Feb 1817 Lady Henrietta Antonia Clive, eldest dau. of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis; d. 6 Jan 1840.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, SIR WATKIN, BART., elder son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (formerly Williams), Bart. DCL MP, politician and landowner, and his second wife Frances, dau. of George Shakerley, Gwersylt, Denbighshire; b. 8 Apr 1749; succ. father as 4th baronet 23 Sep 1749; in school lists 1764, 1765; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 May 1766; DCl 4 Jul 1771; Grand Tour (Italy) 1768-9; MP Shropshire 5 Mar 1772-4, Denbighshire from 1774; Lord Lieut., Merioneth, from 10 Jun 1775; FRS 17 Jun 1773; member, Society of Dilettanti 1775; m. 1st, 13 Apr 1769 Lady Henrietta Somerset, fifth dau. of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (qv); m. 2nd, 21 Dec 1771 Charlotte, dau. of Right Hon. George Grenville PC MP, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; d. 29 Jul 1789.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, WATKIN HENRY, eldest son of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (adm. 1784, qv); b. 27 Jun 1816; adm. 2 Apr 1827 (Stikeman's); d. 9 Jul 1832.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, HERBERT WATKIN, son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm. 1784, qv); b. 29 Aug 1822; adm. 20 Apr 1833 (Benthall's); Ensign, 10th Foot 5 Jul 1839; Lieut., 24 Sep 1841; Capt., 7th Foot 28 Apr 1846; Maj., 1 Apr 1853; retd. with rank of Lieut. -Col., 9 Jun 1854; MP Montgomeryshire from Oct 1850; m. 26 Jul 1855 Anna, dau. of Edmund Lloyd, Cefn, Denbighshire; d. 22 Jun 1862.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, CHARLES WATKIN, son of Charles Watkin Willianms-Wynn (adm. 1784, qv); b. 4 Oct 1822; adm. 18 Jun 1832 (Benthall's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1839, Canoneer Student 1839-53; BA 1843; MA 1845; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 6 Apr 1843, called to bar 6 May 1846; North Wales Circuit; Revising Barrister; Recorder of Oswestry 1880; MP (Cons) Montgomeryshire Jul 1862-80; DL JP Montgomeryshire; member, Society of Dilettanti 1871; Busby Trustee 16 Jun 1874; m. 18 Aug 1853 Lady Annora Charlotte Pierrepont, youngest dau. of Charles Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers; d. 25 Apr 1896.
WILLIAMS-WYNN, CHARLES WATKIN, brother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm. 1784, qv); b. 9 Oct 1775; adm. 23 Mar 1784; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Dec 1791, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1791 – void 23 Jun 1805; BA 1795; MA 1798; DCL 1810; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Apr 1795, called to bar 26 Nov 1798, Bencher 30 Jan 1835; MP Old Sarum 29 Jul 1797 – Mar 1799, Montgomeryshire from 14 Mar 1799 (“father” of the House of Commons from 1846); Under-Secretary, Home Office 19 Feb 1806 – Oct 1807; defeated by Manners-Sutton in contest for the Speakership 2 Jun 1817; he had entered politics as a member of the parliamentary group that followed his uncle Lord Grenville, and when the Grenvillites separated themselves from their Whig allies in 1818-9 he sought to form a third party in the House of Commons, but thereafter acted with the Tories, except for a brief period in 1830-1 when he held office in Earl Grey’s incoming Whig government; Privy Councillor 17 Jan 1822; President, Board of Control 8 Feb 1822 – Feb 1828; Secretary at War Nov 1830 – Apr 1831, also member Board of Control; Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster 26 Dec 1834 – Apr 1835; member, Society of Dilettanti 1805; President, Royal Asiatic Society 1823-41; FRS 24 May 1827; FSA; while at school Wynn assisted Robert Southey (qv) and Grosvenor Charles Bedford (qv) in the production of The Flagellant Mar – Apr 1792; remained an intimate friend of Southey, to whom he made an allowance for some years; took a keen interest in the School, and offered an Indian Writership for competition among the boys in 1826 and 1829; Busby Trustee 15 Jun 1829; author, An Argument upon the Jurisdiction of the House of Commons to commit in Cases of Breach of Privilege, 1810; m. 9 Apr 1806 Mary, eldest dau. of Sir Foster Cunliffe, Bart.; d. 2 Sep 1850. DNB.