Sir Owen Wynn, 3rd Baronet

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Sir Owen Wynn, 3rd Baronet (1592–1660) inherited the family baronetcy, of Gwydyr, in 1649 after the death of his brother Sir Richard Wynn, 2nd Baronet during the Civil War. Educated at Westminster School, Eton, and St John's College, Cambridge, he was apprenticed to a merchant of the Staple in 1608, but eventually came under the patronage of lord-keeper (later archbishop) John Williams, whose niece, Grace, he married in 1642. Like his elder brother, he took no active part in the Civil Wars. Although threatened with sequestration in 1656, he appears to have escaped and as sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1653, he proclaimed Oliver Cromwell as Protector. He was High Sheriff of Denbighshire in 1656. He was interested in alchemy, chemistry, and metallurgy, and corresponded with Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd (c. 1567–1644).

Owen was succeeded at Gwydir by his son Sir Richard Wynn, 4th Baronet in 1660.

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
• 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• E. G. Jones, ‘The Caernarvonshire Squires, 1558-1625’ (unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Wales).

Regnal titles
Preceded by Sir Richard Wynn	Head of the House of Cunedda 1649-1660	Succeeded by Sir Richard Wynn
Baronetage of England
Preceded by Richard Wynn	Baronet (of Gwydir) 1649–c. 1660	Succeeded by Richard Wynn