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Williams-Wynn, Watkin, 1749-1789
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1749-1789
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.