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Occupation. Landowner and politician. Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet (c. 1692 – 26 September 1749) was a Welsh politician and landowner who sat in the British House of Commons from 1716 to 1749, when he died in office. A member of the Tory party, he was also a prominent Jacobite sympathiser.
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]
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (1693-1749) 3rd baronet, assumed the name Wynn in 1719 on inheriting the estate of Wynnstay, Denbighshire, where he sat as MP almost uninterruptedly from 1716 until 1749. A Tory and a Jacobite, his popularity and wealth gave him great influence in the North of Wales.
Sir Watkin Williams, 3rd Bt (1692-1749), succeeded by will to the estates of Sir John Wynn, 5th Bt (d. 1719), whose father was a younger son of Sir John Wynn, 1st Bt, of Gwydir (d. 1627).
NumberDescriptionHeld ByReference1National Library of Wales: Department of ...Wynnstay MSS and Documents2National Library of Wales: Department of ...Longueville Deeds and Documents3National Library of Wales: Department of ...Powysland Club 1965 Parcels 24, 274National Library of Wales: Department of ...MS 10256Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet. primary name: primary name: Williams, Watkin. other name: other name: (Sir) Williams-Wynn, Watkin. Details. individual; politician/statesman; British; Male. Life dates. 1692-1749. Biography. Of Wynnstay; 3rd baronet; MP for Denbighshire. Welsh politician and prominent Jacobite.
26 de jul. de 2007 · Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (1693—1749), 3rd baronet, was the greatest landowner in Wales during the 1730s and 1740s, and a national leader of the Tory party in the House of Commons. He was the grandson of the politician Sir William Williams (1633/4—1700) who had acquired estates in Denbighshire and Shropshire.
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet (1692 – 26 September 1749) was a Welsh politician and prominent Jacobite. Sir Watkin was the eldest son and heir of Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Llanforda near Oswestry; his mother, Jane Thelwall, was a descendant of the antiquary, Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, Caernarfonshire.
