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Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (23 September 1749 – 24 July 1789) was a Welsh landowner, politician and patron of the arts. The Williams-Wynn baronets had been begun in 1688 by the politician Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, but had inherited, in the time of the 3rd baronet, Sir Watkin's father, the estates of the Wynn baronets, and changed their name to reflect this.
Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet (1860–1944) Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 8th Baronet (1891–1949) Sir Robert William Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn, 9th Baronet (1862–1951) Sir Owen Watkin Williams-Wynn, 10th Baronet (1904–1988) Sir David Watkin Williams-Wynn, 11th Baronet (1940–2023) Charles Edward Watkin Williams-Wynn ...
Wynn married Mary Cunliffe, daughter of Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet and Harriet Kinloch, in 1806. They had seven children, two sons and five daughters. His eldest daughter Charlotte Williams-Wynn was a well-known diarist; his son, also named Charles, followed him into Parliament. Williams-Wynn died in September 1850, aged 74.
When Anne died in March 1748, he married another heiress, his god-daughter Frances Shackerley (1721–1803); his son and heir, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (1749–1789) was born a few months before Sir Watkin's death in a hunting accident in September 1749.
Watkin Williams-Wynn may refer to several members of the Williams-Wynn family of Wynnstay, near Wrexham in Wales. Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet (1692–1749), MP for Denbighshire, 1716–1749 Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (1749–1789), MP for Shropshire, 1772–1774, and Denbighshire, 1774–1789, and Lord Lieutenant of ...
In 1949, at the age of eighty-seven, he inherited the Williams-Wynn Baronetcy and estates from a cousin, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 8th Baronet (1891–1949), [2] who had died without a surviving son. (The latter's namesake son, Watkin Williams-Wynn, had died while serving as Lieutenant in the 1st Royal Dragoons in 1946.) [10]
Williams-Wynn was born on 6 June 1860, the second (and eldest surviving) son of Colonel Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn, MP, (1822–62). He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his uncle and father-in-law, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 6th Baronet in May 1885.
Wynnstay had been the family seat of the Wynn family. The mansion eventually passed to a cousin of the Wynn baronet, Jane Thelwell, and her husband Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet who inherited the estate. Sir Watkin added the surname Wynn to his name, and his descendants became the Williams-Wynn Baronets. [4] [8] [11]