Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WROTH, WILLIAM (1576 - 1641), Puritan cleric, and founder of the first Independent church in Wales of High Commission in October 1635, and after much procedure of adjourning, charging, and rebutting, Wroth submitted to discipline in 1638; the most likely theory is that he surrendered the rectory in that year, as he describes himself in his last will (17 September 1638) as ' Preacher of God's Word ' and not ' rector of Llanfaches.' That will is a most interesting document, with the name of Henry
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM HENRY (5th EARL DUNRAVEN and MOUNT-EARL), (1857 - 1952), soldier and politician
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM THOMAS (4th EARL of DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT-EARL in the Irish peerage, 2nd Baron KENRY of the United Kingdom), (1841 - 1926), Glamorgan landowner and politician, sportsman and author with another Welshman, Henry Morton Stanley, then the correspondent of the New York Herald and wrote some of his copy for him. In 1869, Lord Adare, as he then was, married Florence Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Charles Lennox Kerr, and visited America for the first time. He constantly returned to that country and even bought a ranch in Colorado. His insatiable curiosity led him to investigate many
WYNN family Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, and her son, William Owen, to let him and his parishioners of Llandanwg have the old Shire Hall at Harlech for conversion into a chapel-of-ease; both letters are in the Brogyntyn collection in N.L.W. - see Ellis Wynn: Dauganmlwyddiant, published by the National Library in 1934. The heir of Sir Robert Owen and lady (Margaret) Owen was WILLIAM OWEN (died 1768) who married Mary, daughter of Henry
WYNN family Rûg, Boduan, Bodfean, property under a will of 1780; it remained in Vaughan hands until the death, in 1859, of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, 3rd baronet, who bequeathed it to the third son of Spencer Bulkeley, 3rd baron Newborough, i.e. to the Hon. CHARLES HENRY WYNN (born 22 April 1847; died 14 February 1911). C. H. Wynn was succeeded by his son, who ceased to live at Rûg c. 1951, but continued at the old family home, Boduan
WYNN family Gwydir, ' followers and received a pardon from Henry, prince of Wales, in 1408. As a result, possibly, of this division of loyalties, the bulk of the family possessions remained in the possession of the line of Ieuan ap Maredudd until 1463; in that year, the lands were partitioned and Gesail Gyfarch fell to the share of Ieuan ap Robert ap Maredudd (1437 - 1468). He was a Lancastrian and died of the plague at Gesail
WYNN family Bodewryd, their eldest son, the parents went to live at Plas y Brain until the mother's death in 1542. David ap Rhys later married Anne, widow of William John ap Rhys of Llinon, and daughter of Piers Stanley of Ewloe. He repaired the house of Gwredog Esgob, and the family of the second marriage resided there. Pierce ap David or Pierce Lloyd, the first of the Lloyds of Gwredog, was the eldest child of this
WYNN family Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, , Cardiganshire), IORWERTH (living in 1425), and JENKIN AP IORWERTH. Jenkin ap Iorwerth was ' farmer ' (lessee under the Crown) of the mills of Kevyng and Caethleff (Caethley) and of the ferry of Aberdovey, in the thirty-sixth year of Henry VI. Jenkin ap Iorwerth's son, HOWEL, died of the plague in 1494, but HUMPHREY (died 1545), his son by his wife Mary, daughter of Sir ROGER KYNASTON, constable of Harlech
WYNN family Berth-ddu, Bodysgallen, pupil John Williams, later archbishop of York, receiving instead the living of East Ham (1605-11). He was bursar of the college from 1608-11, and in the following year was elected Master (largely through Williams's influence among the Fellows) over the head of the far more distinguished Thomas Morton, later bishop of Durham - an action which Hacket believes Williams to have later repented. In the same
WYNN family Wynnstay, purchasing on his behalf, in 1752, the Mathafarn estate, including the manor of Cyfeiliog, and the Rhiwsaeson estate. Sir Watkin's first wife, Henrietta Somerset, died shortly after the marriage, and he took as his second wife Charlotte, daughter of the right hon. George Grenville, by whom he had three sons Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN (1772 - 1840), and his two brothers, Charles and Henry, the trio nicknamed
WYNNE family Peniarth, to trusted scholars, whilst he must also have been very busy answering inquiries from a host of searchers throughout Britain. A most valuable feature of his work were notes which he supplied to S. R. Meyrick's edition of Lewis Dwnn's Heraldic Visitations (1846) and to Edward Breese's Kalendars of Gwynedd (1873). Others to whom he gave valued assistance were Sir Henry Ellis, editor of The Record of
WYNNE, JOHN (1667 - 1743), bishop of St Asaph and principal of Jesus College, Oxford Arches and a judge in the archbishop's Prerogative Court, appointments which he held until 1809. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1789, and one of the lords of the Treasury in 1790 - he had been knighted in 1788. Soughton was inherited by the bishop's daughter, who married Henry Bankes, an ancestor of the late Sir John Eldon Bankes.

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