Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WYNNE family Voelas, bequeathed his Cefn Amwlch estate to his cousin, JANE WYNNE, Voelas. The heir of Cadwaladr Wynne IV was WATKIN WYNNE (1717 - 1774), who was high sheriff of Denbighshire in 1755, and who built the first church at Pentrefoelas (1766). He married Jane, daughter of Richard Clayton, Leon Hall, Salop; they were the parents of JANE WYNNE (died 3 October 1811), sole heiress of Voelas, and by the will of her cousin
WYNNE, DAVID (1900 - 1983), composer attended the local school until he was twelve and then worked in a grocer's shop. On his fourteenth birthday he began work underground in the Albion colliery, where he remained until he was 25. When he was twenty one of his sisters bought him a piano, and he began to take an interest in music and took lessons from T. Llewellyn Jenkins. In 1925 he won a Glamorgan Scholarship which enabled him to study
WYNNE, ELLIS (1670/1 - 1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic Jesus College, Oxford, 10 March 1722 to 3 July 1726 (B.A. and M.A.). He was ordained deacon at Bangor 6 August 1726, and priest 14 July 1728, was curate of Llanaber 13 August 1726 to September 1731, served at Mallwyd and in Anglesey, returning in 1733 to Merioneth as curate to his father at Llanfair-juxta-Harlech and, on 21 September 1734, succeeding him as incumbent. In April 1750 he became rector of
WYNNE-FINCH, Sir WILLIAM HENEAGE (1893 - 1961), soldier and landowner Egyptian army 1919-25 and the Sudan Defence Force 1925-26 and was honoured with the Order of the Nile. He returned to act as commander of the second battalion of the Scots Guards, 1931-35. He served in World War II as a training officer attached to the Territorial Division in London, and as Lieut. Col. commanding the Scots Guards. He took an intelligent interest in agriculture and in his estates; he was
YOUNG, DAVID (1844 - 1913), Wesleyan minister and historian Born near Haverfordwest, 3 November 1844. While he was still young the family moved to Pontlotyn where he, too, worked in the colliery for a time. He was admitted to the Wesleyan ministry in 1868 and served in the following circuits: Carmarthen (1868), Aberystwyth (1869-71), Machynlleth (1872), Merthyr Tydfil (1873-5), Aberdare (1876-8), Llanidloes (1879-81), Cardiff (1882-4), and Ferndale (1885

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