Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WYNN, EDWARD (1618 - 1669), chancellor of Bangor cathedral Second son of Edward Wynn, Bodewryd, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Edward Puleston, rector of Llanynys; born 1 October 1618. His name occurs in the books of Jesus College, Cambridge, 7 March 1636/7; he graduated B.A. 1640/1, M.A. 1647, and D.D. 1662. He was curate to Dr. John Davies, Mallwyd, secured the rectory of Llan-ym-Mawddwy (5 June 1644) upon the latter's death, and married his widow
WYNN, GRIFFITH (1669? - 1736), cleric and translator payment was made on 22 September 1733, 'my late Master's being Robert Myddelton, Chirk Castle, who died in 1733, '12 Welsh Books' means twelve copies of the one book. The work has an interesting list of subscribers, among these being ' Robert Middleton of Chirk Castle,' and ' Madam Middleton of Groes-Newydd.' This Madam (Mary) Middleton left, in a codicil to her will, an annuity of five pounds to
WYNNE family Peniarth, Charles James Apperley ('Nimrod'). The career of WILLIAM WATKIN EDWARD WYNNE (1801 - 1880) is described fully by G. Tibbott in Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society, i, 69-76. Born at Pickhill Hall, 23 December 1801, he went to Westminster School in 1814 and matriculated at Oxford, as of Jesus College, 24 March 1820. On 8 May 1839 he married Mary, daughter of Robert Aglionby Slaney
WYNNE, JOHN (1650 - 1714), industrial pioneer The son of the squire of Copa'rleni (the name has several forms - see Ellis Davies, Prehistoric and Roman Remains of Flintshire, 159-60; the old mansion is now a farmhouse, known as ' Y Gop'), Trelawnyd ('Newmarket'), Flintshire. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all named John Wynne; the great-grandfather was the son of Edward ap John Wynne ap Robert ap Ieuan ap Cynwrig ap
WYNNE, ROBERT (d. 1720), cleric and poet Llangywer on 2 May 1720, when Edward Samuel preached the funeral sermon. Two poems by him were printed in Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry, 1759, and others survive in manuscript (Peniarth MS 121 in particular), including an elegy and epitaphs for Huw Morys and John Davies (Siôn Dafydd Lâs). His son, EDWARD WYNNE (1685 - 1745), was also vicar of Gwyddelwern from 1724 till his death. He was ordained deacon by John Evans
YARDLEY, EDWARD (1698 - 1769), archdeacon for St. Michael's chapel, the old chapel of Highgate School which was a chapel of ease in the parish of St. Mary, Hornsey, a position which he held for the remainder of his life. He afterwards became archdeacon of Cardigan (26 May 1739). In his own words ' It was at this time [i.e. from 1739] during his stay for nine months in Wales, that he first began to examine the Records and search into ye
YORKE, PHILIP (1743 - 1804) Erddig, Erthig,, antiquary and on correspondence with Gwallter Mechain (Walter Davies, 1761 - 1849), and other scholars, and including an account of the descendants of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, a refutation of Polydore Virgil's strictures on the ancient Britons, some notes on crown lordships in Powys, and some letters of Goronwy Owen and Lewis Morris. This was expanded four years later into his classic Royal Tribes of Wales, printed

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