Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, Sir WILLIAM (1634 - 1700), lawyer and politician WILLIAMS, 2nd baronet (died 1740) His elder surviving son was the father of the first Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. JOHN WILLIAMS (died 1738) His younger son. He entered Gray's Inn in 1679, was called to the Bar in 1686, and was appointed attorney-general of Denbighshire and Montgomery, 1702, and of Chester and Flint, 1727. On his marriage to Catherine, daughter of Sir Hugh Owen, bt., of Orielton, his
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, vigorously into the public life of North Wales; he was high sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1587-8, 1603, of Merioneth, 1588-9 and 1600-01, and of Denbighshire, 1606-7, and Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1586-7. He was knighted in 1606, appointed a member of the Council of the Marches in 1608, and created a baronet in 1611. Unscrupulous, acquisitive, litigious, and hot-tempered, he was the leader of
WYNN family Wynnstay, The founder of the family was Hugh Williams, D.D. (1596 - 1670), rector of Llantrisant and Llanrhyddlad, Anglesey, and second son of William Williams of Chwaen Isaf, Llantrisant. Hugh's eldest son Sir William Williams (1634 - 1700), gained distinction as a lawyer; he was speaker of the House of Commons, 1680-1, appointed Solicitor-General in 1687, knighted the same year, and created a baronet in
WYNNE family Peniarth, was president of the Cambrian Archaeological Association in 1850; about forty articles by him appeared in Archæologia Cambrensis), and genealogist that he will be remembered by posterity, and particularly as the careful custodian and studious searcher through, and cataloguer of, the Hengwrt manuscripts, which became his property, by bequest of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, 3rd baronet, in 1859 (see

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