Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WYNN, GRIFFITH (1669? - 1736), cleric and translator Griffith Wynn, who, however, predeceased her. He died before 12 November 1736, on which day letters of administration were issued at St Asaph to his brother, Roger Wynne.
WYNNE family Voelas, chaplain to cardinal Wolsey, he was the father of Elis ap Rhys, i.e. Dr. Elis Prys (see also Vaughan family, Pant Glas). Their eldest son, MAURICE GETHIN, steward of the abbey of Aberconway, married Ann, daughter of David Myddelton ' Hen,' Gwenynog, receiver-general for North Wales in the time of Edward IV, and had a large family, the heir being CADWALADR WYNNE I, high sheriff of Denbighshire, 1548, who
WYNNE family Peniarth, The Wynne family of Peniarth, parish of Llanegryn, Meironnydd, were a cadet branch of the Wynn family of Glyn Cywarch, near Harlech, Meironnydd. Like some other Merioneth families its members claimed descent from Osbwrn Wyddel. W. W. E. Wynne, a very high authority on North Wales genealogies, published Pedigree of the Family of Wynne, of Peniarth in the County of Merioneth (London, 1872), and as
WYNNE, Wern Penmorfa - see WYNNE
WYNNE, Bodvel, Caerfryn - see BODVEL
WYNNE FINCH, Voelas - see WYNNE
WYNNE, CATHERINE, heiress - see WYNNE, JOHN
WYNNE, DAVID (1900 - 1983), composer David Wynne was born at Nantmoch Uchaf farm, Penderyn, Breconshire, on 2 June 1900, the son of Philip Thomas (born 1872) and his wife Elizabeth (née Thomas, born 1877). He was christened David William Thomas, and later adopted the name David Wynne for his musical career. In 1901 the family moved to Llanfabon, Glamorgan, where his father found work in the Albion colliery in Cilfynydd. David
WYNNE, EDWARD (1715 - 1767), vicar - see WYNNE, ELLIS
WYNNE, EDWARD (1685 - 1745), vicar - see WYNNE, ROBERT
WYNNE, ELLIS (1670/1 - 1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic Born 7 March 1670/1, at Y Lasynys, near Harlech and in the parish of Llandanwg, Merionethshire, son of Edward Wynne, who descended from a well-known Merioneth family (Wynne of Glyn Cywarch), and his wife, who had inherited Y Lasynys. It has not been ascertained, as yet, where Ellis Wynne received his early education nor how he spent his life until he entered Jesus College, Oxford, on 1 March 1691
WYNNE, JOHN (1650 - 1714), industrial pioneer The son of the squire of Copa'rleni (the name has several forms - see Ellis Davies, Prehistoric and Roman Remains of Flintshire, 159-60; the old mansion is now a farmhouse, known as ' Y Gop'), Trelawnyd ('Newmarket'), Flintshire. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all named John Wynne; the great-grandfather was the son of Edward ap John Wynne ap Robert ap Ieuan ap Cynwrig ap

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