Sir Richard Wynn, 4th Baronet

Sir Richard Wynn, 4th Baronet (1625–1674) was Sheriff of Caernarvonshire and twice a member of Parliament for the same county.

Biography

Sir Richard succeeded his father Sir Owen Wynn at Gwydir in 1660.[1]

Sir Richard was sheriff of Caernarvonshire (1657/1658) and twice MP for Caernarvonshire: in the Rump Parliament 1647–1653 and the Cavalier Parliament (1661–1675).[2]

Sir Richard spent some time imprisoned in Caernarvon Castle. He may have been incarcerated because of a possible involvement in the Royalist Booth's Uprising (1659) as he was by that time a son-in-law to one of the participant Sir Thomas Myddelton.[2]

Sir Richard died in 1674 and was succeeded to the title by his cousin Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet the only son of Henry Wynn (the tenth son of the 1st baronet).[2][1]

Family

In 1654 Sir Richard married Sarah, daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton. [2] They had one child, Mary (1661–1689) who inherited the Gwydir estate on the death of her father. She married Robert Bertie (1660–1723), 17th Lord Willoughby de Eresby and later 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.[2]

Notes

References

  • Roberts, Glyn (1959). "Richard (1588–1649)". Wynn family, of Gwydir, Caerns. Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
  • Thomas, Daniel Lleufer (1900), "Wynn, John" , in Lee, Sidney (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography, 63, London: Smith, Elder & Co, p. 258 . Endnotes:
    • Cal. Wynn (of Gwydir) Papers, passim;
    • Clenennau Letters, i, Introduction
    • Hist. Gwydir Family, passim
    • W. R. Williams, Parl. Hist. of Wales, passim
    • E. Breeze, Kalendars of Gwynedd, passim; Cymm., xxxviii
    • The Welsh Review, v, 187–191; Trans. Caern. Hist. Soc., 1939, 37–46; J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 280–1

Further reading

Parliament of England
Preceded by
Sir John Glynne
Member of Parliament of Caernarvonshire
1661–1675
Succeeded by
The Viscount Bulkeley
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Interregnum
Custos Rotulorum of Caernarvonshire
1660–1674
Succeeded by
Richard Bulkeley
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Owen Wynn
Baronet
(of Gwydir)
c. 1660–1674
Succeeded by
John Wynn


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