Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 abroad in Paris and Rome before being sent to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1858. He joined the Life Guards as a cornet in 1862. In 1867 he obtained leave to go as a war correspondent with the British expedition to Abyssinia, commanded by General Sir Robert Napier, later Lord Napier of Magdala, the brother of Captain Napier, the first Chief Constable of Glamorgan. While on the expedition he shared a tent
WYNN family Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, co-heiress of Robert Owen of Ystumcegid, he was the father of OWEN WYNN (died 1682/3), of Glyn and Ystumcegid, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Robert Mostyn, of Nant, Flintshire, the issue of the marriage being two daughters, (1) MARGARET (died 1727), who married Sir ROBERT OWEN (died 1698), of Clenennau and Brogyntyn who was Member of Parliament for Merioneth, 1681-85, and was
WYNN family Rûg, Boduan, Bodfean, Some particulars concerning certain members of this family are given in the articles on Bodvel family, Bodvel, Caernarfonshire, Glynn family, Glynllifon, Caernarfonshire, and Nannau (Nanney) family, Meironnydd. In the Nannau family article it is shown how EDWARD WILLIAMES SALUSBURY VAUGHAN (died 1807), son of Sir Robert Howell Vaughan (1st baronet, of Nannau; died 1796), succeeded to the Rûg
WYNN family Gwydir, , and high sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1555, 1570, and 1578. Sir JOHN WYNN (1553 - 1627) Maurice's son John was the best known member of the family. A student of All Souls, Oxford, in 1570, he was at Furnival's Inn in 1572 and at the Inner Temple in 1576. He appears to have lived in London until his father's death in 1580, although he may have travelled abroad. After inheriting Gwydir, he entered
WYNN family Bodewryd, Clwyd, had all died in infancy. An estrangement had grown between the parents, but they had been reconciled before the wife's death on 29 July 1739. The Bodewryd estate passed to Margaret Owen, heiress of Penrhos, granddaughter of Edward Wynne's sister Anne (died 1748), who had married Robert Owen of Penrhos. She married Sir John Stanley, bt., in 1763 (see the article on the Stanley family).
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, This family was a younger branch of the Wynn family of Gwydir, founded through the marriage of Griffith Wynn (son of John Wynn ap Meredydd, died 1559, and uncle of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir) with the heiress of Robert Salusbury of Berth-ddu. OWEN GWYNN (GWYNNE, GWYN or WYN) (died 1633), Master of S. John's, Cambridge Education, was the third son of this Griffith Wynn. Nominated in 1584 to one of
WYNN family Wynnstay, March 1858 when a large part of Wynnstay mansion was burnt, destroying many treasures, including the valuable library of Welsh MSS. Among the messages received was an address from the Calvinistic Methodist Association in the North. The present house was rebuilt and Sir Watkin began to re-establish the library by purchasing the genealogical MSS. of Joseph Morris, Shrewsbury. He held his family's
WYNN, Sir JOHN (1553 - 1627), Member of Parliament - see WYNN
WYNN, Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS (1820 - 1885), M.P. - see WYNN
WYNNE family Peniarth, Kaernarvon (1838), and Askew Roberts, who prepared the third ed. (1877) of Sir John Wynn's The history of the Gwydir family. Angharad Llwyd and Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon') were often at Peniarth, whilst among Wynne's numerous correspondents were such antiquaries as Joseph Morris of Shrewsbury and John Jones, Llanllyfni. Other publications by him (besides numerous contributions to Mont. Coll., Y
WYNNE, ELLIS (1670/1 - 1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic was 2 years old), and (2) Lowry Lloyd, Hafod Lwyfog, Beddgelert. Nine children were born of the second marriage; of these William, the second child, and Edward, the youngest, are noticed below. On 1 January 1704/5, Ellis Wynne became the incumbent of the neighbouring parish of Llandanwg; he also had charge of the chapelry of Llanbedr. In November 1706 he wrote to lady Margaret Owen, widow of Sir

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