Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WYNN, Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS (1820 - 1885), M.P. - see WYNN
WYNNE family Peniarth, WYNNE I (died 1700), of Wern, Caernarfonshire, of which he became possessed by right of his wife (and first cousin), ELIZABETH, daughter and heiress of Maurice Jones of Wern. He was succeeded by his son, WILLIAM WYNNE II (died 1721), of Wern. He, by his wife, Catherine (Goodman), was the father of WILLIAM WYNNE III (1708 - 1766), of Wern, whose wife was Ellinor, daughter of Griffith Williams, cleric
WYNNE, DAVID (1900 - 1983), composer . Early in his career he was influenced by contemporary music. He heard Edward Elgar conduct a performance of his Second Symphony in Cardiff in 1923, and was much impressed; so too by the performance he heard of the opera Hugh the Drover by Ralph Vaughan Williams, conducted by John Barbirolli, in 1925. But the turning point in his career came with the publication of the Third Quartet by the Hungarian
WYNNE, JOHN (1650 - 1714), industrial pioneer heiress, Catherine, who married John Lloyd of Rhagad in Edeirnion; but, having regard to the frequency of the name ' John Wynne ' in the family tree, there is a distinct possibility that this was his sister and not his daughter. At any rate, she was the heiress. Unless Dr. John Evans (or Dr. Daniel Williams) had collected his statistics before the death of John Wynne (which might well have been the case
WYNNE, JOHN (1667 - 1743), bishop of St Asaph and principal of Jesus College, Oxford which was translated into French and Italian. Edward Lhuyd felt in 1704 (Archæologia Cambrensis, 1859, 253) that Wynne was cold, if not actually hostile, to him - Moses Williams, on the other hand, received from him a letter of recommendation when he was applying for the post of secretary of the Royal Society. Two of the bishop's sons were buried at Northop. The elder, JOHN WYNNE (1724 - 1801
YATES, WILFRID NIGEL (1944 - 2009), archivist and historian Nigel Yates was born on 1 July 1944 in Swansea, the son of Thomas Yates (1909-1997), a chartered accountant, and his wife Alice (née Bentham, 1912-1993). Alongside his younger sister Katharine Wilma (b. 1949) he was brought up a Roman Catholic and was educated at Craig-y-Nos Preparatory School in Swansea, followed in 1955 by Belmont Abbey School, Herefordshire. In 1962 he took up a place at the

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