Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WYNN, GRIFFITH (1669? - 1736), cleric and translator '; this is proved by the absence of his name from D. R. Thomas, Hist. of the Diocese of St. Asaph, and by reference to the translator and his work in note 2701 in W. M. Myddelton, Chirk Castle Accounts, 1666-1753 (Horncastle, 1931), where it is shown that the sum of 18s. 6d. was paid to ' Mr. Griffith Wynn, Clearke, in full of my late Master's subscription for 12 Welsh Books of his Translation.' This
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, 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, JOHN (1650 - 1714), industrial pioneer Ieuan ap Dafydd ap Cynwrig, who was descended from Edwin ap Gronw of Tegeingl (Powys Fadog, iv 99, v 244, and elsewhere; T. A. Glenn, Griffith of Garn, 77); Copa'rleni was in the possession of Ieuan ap Dafydd ap Cynwrig in 1441, and we find a reference, to his son Cynwrig in 1467. The surname ' Wynne ' was finally adopted in the reign of Elizabeth, and from about the same time the heir was regularly
WYNNE, JOHN (1667 - 1743), bishop of St Asaph and principal of Jesus College, Oxford was admitted into Jesus College, where he graduated in 1685 (B.D. 1696, D.D. 1706), being elected a Fellow the same year. The name being a very common one, there has been, both in Foster and in the D.N.B., a good deal of confusion about his career; if D. R. Thomas's lists of St Asaph clergy are studied it will be seen that he was not the John Wynne who was at Nantglyn and Llansilin as alleged by
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
WYNNE, ROBERT (d. 1720), cleric and poet diocese of St Asaph at this period - the two others were Robert Wynne, D.D., chancellor of the diocese, and Robert Wynne, M.A., rector of Queenhope. Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, is confused in its statement on R. Wynne. The rector of Llangywer writes that there are four tombs of the Wynne family of Plasnewydd (today called Ty-cerrig) in the churchyard, but the relevant inscriptions
YORKE, PHILIP (1743 - 1804) Erddig, Erthig,, antiquary sat twice in Parliament for English pocket boroughs; but with his completely English antecedents, education, and first marriage, he took little interest in the land of his birth till, in 1782, he married Diana, daughter of Piers Wynn of Dyffryn Aled, and widow of R. O. Meyrick. Starting with ' no great respect for the mountain Welsh, great or small ' (says Apperley), and preferring his wife 'when
YOUNG, GRUFFYDD (c. 1370 - c. 1435), cleric, and supporter of Owain Glyndŵr Of illegitimate birth, he appears to have won the favour of Anne of Bohemia, queen of Richard II (Cal. Pap. Letters, iv, 445; v, 239), and between 1391 and 1403 held numerous benefices in the dioceses of Bangor and S. Davids - Llanynys, Llanbadarn-fawr, prebends of Garthbrengy, Boughrood, Lampeter, Bangor (Cal. Pat. R., 1388-92, 355; ibid., 1391-6, 16; (Cal. Pap. Letters, v, 239, 412, 521), vicar

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