Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet: Difference between revisions

Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet (1674 - 1719) succeeded his cousin Sir Richard Wynn, 4th Baronet as Baron Wynn in 1674 but did not inherit the Gwydyr Estate which passed to his predecessor's daughter Mary.

Sir John had inherited the Watstay Estate through his marriage to Jane Evans (daughter of Eyton Evans of Watstay), which he had renamed the Wynnstay Estate to compensate. He had also, allegedly, won the Stanwardine Estate in Worcestershire from Thomas Corbett in a snail race!

Sir John lived into his 90's mainly residing in London but died without issue in 1719. On his death the Wynn Baronetcy died and the House of Cunedda was left without male issue. Sir John bequeathed the entire Wynnstay estate to Jane Thelwall (great-granddaughter of Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet) who was now married to Sir William Williams, 3rd Baronet. Sir John Wynn and Sir William Williams were the two largest landowners in north Wales at that time and together the combined estate dwarfed all others. In honour of his wife's ancestry Sir William changed his name to Sir William Williams-Wynn of Wynnstay.

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• D.N.B., lxiii; 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
• E. G. Jones, ‘The Caernarvonshire Squires, 1558-1625’ (unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Wales).

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