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WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (fl. 1648-1677), author of Poetical Piety Little is known of this man beyond what he says himself in the dedication to Sir Thomas Pryse, Gogerddan, Cardiganshire, of his book Poetical Piety: or Poetry made Pious …, printed for the author 'at the White Swan in Black-Fryers near the King's Printing-house,' London, 1677. He says that he was then 'near Thirty' years of age, that he had been born in the vicinity of Gogerddan, and that he knew
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM HENRY (5th EARL DUNRAVEN and MOUNT-EARL), (1857 - 1952), soldier and politician president of the 1940 Bridgend national eisteddfod. Wyndham-Quin published a number of works including The Yeomanry Cavalry of Gloucester and Monmouth (1898), Sir Charles Tyler, G.C.B., Admiral of the White (1912), The Foxhound in county Limerick (1919) and A history of Dunraven Castle (1926). He married 7 July 1885 Lady Eva Constance Aline Bourke, daughter of the 6th Earl of Mayo. She died 19 January
teulu WYNN Wynnstay, from that time until his dying day he continued to represent the county in Parliament, where he took an active part in the debates. There, too, Sir Watkin came to the fore as one of the chief supporters of the Stuart cause in 1745; while at home he was the leader of the ' Circle of the White Rose ' - the Jacobite club started by him about 1723, which used to meet regularly at Wynnstay and other
WYNN, EDWARD (1618 - 1669), chancellor of Bangor cathedral the cathedral of Bangor. He died 17 December 1669, and was buried 23 December at Llangaffo. He left fifty pounds in his will for adorning the cathedral of Bangor, and £100 to create an exhibition in his old college at Cambridge. His second wife, Sydney, daughter of Rowland White, of the Friars, Llanfaes (whom he had married 7 April 1657), died in 1670. He published, at his own expense, a collection
YSTUMLLYN, JOHN (bu farw 1786), gardener and land steward , possibly Ellis Wynn, senior, who brought John home to Ystumllyn, aged eight years (or thirteen according to other reports), having kidnapped him in Africa. This is supported by John's own recollection of being with his mother on the banks of a stream, shaded by trees, when white men accosted them, taking him with them in spite of his mother's protests. Recent commentators lean towards the view that John

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