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Born into an ancient and grand Welsh family, Williams-Wynn was the second son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, by his second wife Charlotte Grenville, daughter of Prime Minister George Grenville. His great-great-grandfather Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1680 to 1685.
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 Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, late 1730s. The Williams-Wynn Baronetcy, of Gray's Inn in the County of Middlesex was created in the Baronetage of England on 6 July 1688 for William Williams, a prominent Welsh politician and lawyer from Anglesey, Wales. [1]
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (4 October 1822 – 25 April 1896) was a Welsh Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880. Williams-Wynn was the son of Charles Williams-Wynn , who was MP for Montgomeryshire 1796–1850, and his wife Mary Cunliffe daughter of Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet .
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 ...
Charles Williams-Wynn may refer to: Charles Williams-Wynn (1775–1850) , British politician and Secretary at War of the early- to mid-19th century Charles Williams-Wynn (1822–1896) , Welsh Conservative politician, M.P. 1868–1880, son of the above
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet (c. 1692 – 26 September 1749) was a Welsh politician and landowner who sat in the British House of Commons from 1716 to 1749, when he died in office. A member of the Tory party, he was also a prominent Jacobite sympathiser.
Portrait of Watkin Williams, Esq., Q.C., M.P. Williams was the eldest son of Peter Williams, rector of Llansannan, Denbighshire, and his wife Lydia Sophia Price, daughter of the Rev. James Price of Plas-yn-Lysfaen, Denbighshire. Henry Wynn-Williams was his younger brother. [1]