Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WYNNE, JOHN (1650 - 1714), industrial pioneer in 1701 he presented Trelawnyd with a Nonconformist chapel - a chapel of which Thomas Perrott became minister; in this we can, doubtless, see the hand of James Owen. The services were conducted in English, and the chapel was intended to serve not the native-born Welsh of the neighbourhood but the labour imported from across the border. When John Evans (c. 1680 - 1730) collected his statistics, the
WYNNE, OWEN (1652 - ?), civil servant probably became an advocate of Doctors' Commons (10 January 1694). He was confidential secretary to Sir Leoline Jenkins during the latter's tenure of the secretaryship of state (1680-5), and retained the office of undersecretary under Jenkins's successors till c. 1690; in this capacity he served as secretary to the commissioners sent by James II to treat with William of Orange (November 1688). He is thus
YORKE, PHILIP SCOTT (1905 - 1976), Squire of Erddig, near Wrexham -east England. He also played in Cork and Waterford. In his will he named Gwen Nelson and James Hayter, friends of those days. Philip joined the Education Corps during World War II, serving for the most part in Northern Ireland as a sergeant instructor. He was released with high commendation. Philip served as a lay reader in local churches though the diocese has no record of a licence to this effect
YOUNG, JAMES JUBILEE (1887 - 1962), Baptist minister
YSTUMLLYN, JOHN (d. 1786), gardener and land steward , two of whom died in infancy. Of the remainder, a daughter named Ann married James Martin, a musical instrument vendor in Liverpool; another daughter, Lowri, married, first, Robert Jones, a butler from Madryn on the Ll?n Peninsula, and secondly, a man named John Mcnamare; and a son, Richard (1770-1862), served as huntsman at Glynllifon under Sir Thomas Wynn (d. 1807), first baron Newborough. John

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