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The fifth baronet succeeded his cousin as baronet and inherited the Wynnstay estate, near Ruabon, north Wales. Wynnstay had been the family seat of the Wynn family. The mansion eventually passed to a cousin of the Wynn baronet, Jane Thelwell, and her husband Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet who inherited the estate. Sir Watkin added the ...
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Gray's Inn; Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn; Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet; Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet; Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet; Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 6th Baronet; Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet; Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 9th Baronet
Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet (1628 – 11 January 1719) was a Welsh landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1679 and 1713. [1] He was among the largest landowners in Wales.
Wynnstay Hall, Ruabon near Wrexham, Wales, seat of the Wynns Wynnstay Park. Williams-Wynn was the son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet and his second wife, Charlotte, daughter of George Grenville, a former Prime Minister, through whose sister Hester's marriage to William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Williams-Wynn became cousin to Pitt the Younger.
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Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, late 1730s. The Williams-Wynn Baronetcy, of Gray's Inn in the County of Middlesex was created in the Baronetage of England on 6 July 1688 for William Williams, a prominent Welsh politician and lawyer from Anglesey, Wales. [1]
John Wynn may refer to: John "Wynn" ap Maredudd, Head of the cadet lineage of the House of Aberffraw descending from Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd, 1525–1559; Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet (1553–1627), his descendant, Welsh baronet, Member of Parliament for Carnarvonshire, 1586; Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet (1628–1719) Sir John Wynn, 2nd Baronet ...
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (23 September 1749 – 24 July 1789) was a Welsh landowner, politician and patron of the arts. The Williams-Wynn baronets had been begun in 1688 by the politician Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, but had inherited, in the time of the 3rd baronet, Sir Watkin's father, the estates of the Wynn baronets, and changed their name to reflect this.