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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.
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 .
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]
Williams-Wynn was the son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet and his second wife, Charlotte, daughter of George Grenville, a former Prime Minister, through whose sister Hester's marriage to William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Williams-Wynn became cousin to Pitt the Younger. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.