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Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet.
Welsh politician and prominent Jacobite (1692–1749)
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About Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet was a British Tory politician and landowner who represented Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1716 to 1749. A lifelong Tory, he was also a prominent Jacobite sympathiser. Williams-Wynn helped engineer the downfall of Prime Minister Robert Walpole in 1742 and engaged in negotiations with the exiled Stuarts prior to the Jacobite rising of 1745 but did not participate in the rebellion himself. Williams-Wynn died in a hunting accident in 1749.
Everything about Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the 5th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 6th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 7th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 8th Parliament of Great Britain
- Citizenship
- Wales
- Born
- 1692
- Died
- September 26, 1749