Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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, WILLIAM (1671? - 1704), historian , heiress of Llannerch Fawr (Llannor, near Pwllheli). The eldest son of this marriage was ROBERT WYNNE (died 1743), Fellow of Jesus (Oxford) 1681-91, vicar of Gresford and chancellor of St Asaph 1690-1743, a supporter of the S.P.C.K. and of the charity-school movement; the youngest was the historian. Born in all probability in 1671 (certainly not later than 12 November 1671), he went up to Jesus College
WYNNE-FINCH, Sir WILLIAM HENEAGE (1893 - 1961), soldier and landowner Born 18 January 1893, the second son of Lieut. Col. Charles Arthur Wynne-Finch of Foelas and Cefnamwlch, Caernarfonshire, and his wife Maud Emily (née Charteris). He was educated at Eton College and joined the Scots Guards (2nd Lieut., 1912; Captain, 1916; Major, 1923; Lieut. Col., 1931; Colonel, 1935). He served in World War I and was twice wounded and won the M.C. in 1916. He served in the
YOUNG, GRUFFYDD (c. 1370 - c. 1435), cleric, and supporter of Owain Glyndŵr -general of S. Davids (Regg. St. Davids, 18-22) and archdeacon of Merioneth (Willis, Bangor, 140). About 1403, he allied himself with Owain Glyndŵr, became his chancellor, and was in Paris in 1404 with John Trevor negotiating a treaty of alliance with Charles VI. He was probably responsible for the ' Pennal policy,' whereby Glyndŵr agreed to transfer the allegiance of the Welsh church from Rome to

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