Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WYNN, EDWARD (1618 - 1669), chancellor of Bangor cathedral to have been re-instated before 1654, and by July 1658 he was in Anglesey as rector of Llan-geinwen and Llangaffo. He also secured the rectory of Llangybi and Llanarmon, Caernarfonshire, 29 May 1662, and held it until 1666, having added the rectory of Llanllechid to his preferments, 18 April 1665. He was a member of convocation, 1661-2, and in 1663 he became a canon of St Asaph and chancellor of
WYNNE family Voelas, , and by her was the father of CADWALADR WYNNE II (died 1612), high sheriff of Denbighshire in 1605, who by his first wife, Anne Holland, of Berw, Anglesey, was the father of ROBERT WYNNE II (born before 1602), whose wife, whom he married in 1645, was Jane Thelwall, Plas y Ward. Robert Wynne, who was high sheriff of Denbighshire in 1631, was succeeded by CADWALADR WYNNE III (buried at Conway 6
WYNNE, ELLIS (1670/1 - 1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic Jesus College, Oxford, 10 March 1722 to 3 July 1726 (B.A. and M.A.). He was ordained deacon at Bangor 6 August 1726, and priest 14 July 1728, was curate of Llanaber 13 August 1726 to September 1731, served at Mallwyd and in Anglesey, returning in 1733 to Merioneth as curate to his father at Llanfair-juxta-Harlech and, on 21 September 1734, succeeding him as incumbent. In April 1750 he became rector of
WYNNE, OWEN (1652 - ?), civil servant The second son of Hugh Gwyn (alias Hugh ap John Owen) of Gwaenfynydd, Llechylched, Anglesey, who claimed descent from Hwfa ap Cynddelw, the 12th century lord of Llifon, and of Elin, daughter of Robert ap John ap William of Tre'rddolphin. He entered Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated 10 July) in 1668, and graduated B.A. in 1672. At some subsequent date he qualified as a doctor of laws, and
WYNNE, WILLIAM (1671? - 1704), historian in March 1687/8, took his first degree in 1691, became Fellow of Jesus in 1692, and seems to have resided continuously at Oxford till 1702 at least. In 1702 he was preferred to the rectory of Llanfachraeth in Anglesey, but there is no evidence that he ever resided there; he is called 'bishop's chaplain' on his tombstone. According to a marginal note in the Llanfachraeth register, he died in May
YALE family Plâs yn Iâl, Plas Grono, (see under Edward Lloyd (1570 - 1648?), was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, of which he became Fellow (1544-67) on taking his bachelor's degree. Ten years after proceeding to M.A. (1546) he was admitted to minor orders (24 September 1556) by bishop William Glyn, who inducted him to the rectory of Llantrisant (Anglesey) a few weeks later. He never resided there, qualifying instead for a legal

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