Sir Richard Wynn, 4th Baronet

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Sir Richard Wynn, 4th Baronet (1625–1674) succeeded his father Sir Owen Wynn, 3rd Baronet at Gwydir in 1660. He was high sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1657–8, Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1647–53 and 1661–75, and was associated with the municipal government of Denbigh. In 1659 he appears to have been implicated in the royalist insurrection arranged by Sir George Booth and Sir Thomas Myddelton (whose daughter, Sarah, he had married in 1654) and was for a while imprisoned at Caernarvon. On his death in 1674 his estate passed to his daughter Mary (1661–89), who married, in 1678, Robert Bertie, baron Willoughby de Eresby later marquis of Lindsey and duke of Ancaster, in whose family Gwydyr remained until 1895. The baronetcy passed to John Wynn of Watstay (1628-1719), only son of Henry Wynn, tenth son of the first baronet, and was extinguished by his death.

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• E. G. Jones, ‘The Caernarvonshire Squires, 1558-1625’ (unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Wales).

Honorary Titles
Preceded by: Interregnum	Custos Rotulorum of Caernarvonshire 1660–1674	Succeeded by: Richard Bulkeley
Preceded by: Sir Owen Wynn, 3rd Baronet	Head of the House of Cunedda 1660-1674	Succeeded by: Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet