Henry Williams-Wynn Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
Sir Henry Williams-Wynn
Honorific Suffix:KCB GCH
Office:British Envoy to Denmark
Term Start:1824
Term End:1853
Predecessor:Augustus John Foster
Successor:The Earl of Sheffield
Office1:Member of Parliament for Midhurst
Term Start1:January 1807
Term End1:May 1807
Predecessor1:John Smith
William Wickham
Alongside1:William Conyngham Plunket
Successor1:Samuel Smith
James Abercromby
Birth Name:Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn
Parents:Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
Charlotte Grenville
Children:6
Relatives:George Grenville (grandfather)

Sir Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn KCB GCH (16 March 1783 – 28 March 1856) was a British MP in the early 19th century. From 1824 to 1853, he served as the British Envoy to Denmark.

Early life

He was the younger son of eight children, six of whom survived to adulthood, of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, and, his second wife, Charlotte Grenville. Among his siblings was elder brothers Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (who married Lady Henrietta Clive, a daughter of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis) and Charles Williams-Wynn, Secretary at War and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (who married Mary Cunliffe, daughter of Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet). His sister Henrietta Elizabeth Williams-Wynn, married Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delamere.

His father was the only son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet and his second wife, Frances Shackerley of Cheshire, and succeeded to the baronetcy (and extensive Wynnstay estates, the largest in North Wales) when only a baby after his father was killed by a fall from his horse while hunting. His maternal grandparents were Elizabeth (née Wyndham) Grenville (daughter of the Tory statesman Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet) and Prime Minister George Grenville.

Career

Williams-Wynn sat for Midhurst from January to May 1807.[1] From 1824 to 1853, he served as the British Envoy to Denmark.

He was appointed Knight Commander, Order of the Bath and was appointed Knight Grand Cross, Hanoverian Order.

Personal life

On 30 September 1813, he married Hon. Hester Frances Smith, daughter of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington of Upton and the former Anne Boldero-Barnard. Together, they were the parents of:[2]

Williams-Wynn died on 28 March 1856.[5]

Descendants

Through his eldest daughter Charlotte, he was a grandfather of four, including Countess Helene von Bismarck-Schierstein (1850–1903) (who married Maj. Wilfred Joseph Cripps), and Count Otto Franz Karl von Bismarck-Schierstein (1854–1910).[6]

Notes and References

  1. Retrieved 8 November 2011
  2. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 4187.
  3. Web site: Langelinie seen from Kastellet.. Danish. Bruun Rasmussen. 30 January 2023.
  4. Book: Staley . Hélène Andorre Hinson . Paper & Stone: A Leighton History in England & the United States . 4 April 2011 . Xlibris Corporation . 978-1-4568-8730-8 . 5 January 2023 . en.
  5. Wynn, Henry Watkin Williams. 63.
  6. Book: Raineval . Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et . Raineval . Melville Henry Massue Marquis of Ruvigny and . The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe . 1914 . Burke's Peerage . 978-0-85011-028-9 . 350 . 5 January 2023 . en.