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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 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]
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.
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 ...
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.
Colonel Sir Robert William Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn, 9th Baronet, KCB, DSO (3 June 1862 – 23 November 1951) was a Welsh soldier and landowner. [ 1 ] He was Master of the Flint and Denbigh Foxhounds for 58 years and also Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire from 1928 until his death in 1951.
Charles Williams-Wynn (1775–1850), Secretary at War, second son of the 4th Baronet; Charles Williams-Wynn (1822–1896), his son; Sir Henry Williams-Wynn (1783–1856), diplomat, third son of the 4th Baronet; Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet (1860–1944), nephew and son-in-law of the 6th Baronet; Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet ...
Marie Emily, wife of Watkins Williams Wynn. Williams-Wynn was born at the family's London property, [1] the eldest son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet, and his wife Lady Henrietta Antonia Clive, eldest daughter of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis. [2] His brother-in-law, Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, inherited Powis Castle in Wales.