The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961); Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940 (Llundain, 1953); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on-line.
Title based on contents of fonds.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn of Llangedwyn, Denbighshire was the second son of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th bart, of Wynnstay. Following private tutorship, Wynn was admitted to Westminster School in 1784 before entering Christ Church, Oxford in 1791, where he met his lifelong friend, the poet Robert Southey. In 1795 Wynn was admitted to Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in 1798. He served as recorder for the Oxford and North Wales circuits for some seven years before being elected bencher in 1835. Wynn is best known for his glittering political career, successively serving as Undersecretary for the Home Department from 1806 to 1807, President of the Board of Control from 1822 to 1828, Secretary of War from 1830-1831 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1834 to 1835. He continued as M.P. for Montgomeryshire from his election in 1799 until his death over fifty years later. Wynn held some interest in Welsh antiquities and the Welsh language and attended eisteddfodau, but was not an ardent patriot, as evidenced by his support, in 1817, of assimilating the (separate) Welsh judiciary system with that of England. Wynn's later years were dogged by ill-health, no doubt exacerbated by the deaths of family members, including his wife Mary (née Cunliffe) in 1838, and that of his friend Robert Southey in 1843. He died at his London home and his only surviving son, also called Charles, succeeded to his 1,600 acre Montgomeryshire estate of Coed-maen, near Meifod.
Published
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Papers, [18 cent.]-1936, of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, which include pedigrees, [18 cent.], of the Lloyd family of Blaen-y-ddol and Llwyn-y-maen, Oswestry and papers, 1719, relating to the erection of monuments to members of the Wynn family in Ruabon church; correspondence, 1797-1840 and n.d., of the Wynn family, including sixteen letter-books, 1807-1831, kept by Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn; transcripts of correspondence, 1803, between the Chancellor of the Exchequer Henry Addington and George, Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV) and between George and his father, George III; and a typescript copy, 1936, of a memoir of Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn compiled by his grandson, Arthur Watkin Williams Wynn.
Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 10798-10806.
Arthur Watkin Williams Wynn, grandson of Charles Watkin Williams Wynn; Llansantffraid, Montgomeryshire; Donation; 1935.
Description compiled by Bethan Ifan for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS, and revised by Bethan Ifan.
See also NLW Coedymaen 2, which contains correspondence and papers of Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, including extensive correspondence with Lord Grenville; NLW MSS 4811-4815D, which include correspondence, 1796-c. 1839, between Charles Watkin Williams Wynn and Robert Southey, and NLW MSS 4816-4818D, which contain correspondence, 1820-1853, to Henry Williams Wynn mainly from Charles Watkin Williams Wynn.
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Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), pp. 248-249.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 10798C.
Published
A typescript copy, with sixteen illustrations, of a Memoir of Charles Watkin Williams Wynn compiled by his grandson A. W. Williams Wynn of Coed-y-maen, April 1936.
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Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 248.
Original title.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 10799B.
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A transcript of the 'Description of Wales' (1602) by George Owen, Henllys, Pembrokeshire; with insets containing particulars of the divisions of Gwynedd, Powys, and Dinefwr, and of reserved rents of the cathedral church of St Davids, 1773, and the collegiate church of Brecon.
Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 248.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 10800E.
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A pedigree of the family of Lloyd of Blaen-y-ddol and of Llwyn-y-maen, parish of Oswestry, found in the pedigree book of Plas-y-ward in the custody of Mr Simon Lloyd of Plas-yn-dre at Bala; a declaration (unsigned) from Salop Gaol, 24 August, 1716, disclaiming an accusation of over-charging made by one Bevan, the undertaker's boy, in connection with the burial at Canterbury of young [Edward] Vaughan of Llangedwyn, who died at Paris on 12 January, 1699/1700; and articles of agreement, 10 November, 1719, between Watkin Williams Wynn of Wynnstay, esq., and Robert Wynne of Ruthin, statuary, for the erection, for a sum of £450, of three marble monuments in the chancel of Ruabon church in memory of Henry Wynne, esq., of Sir John Wynn, kt and bart, and of the Lady Jane Wynn.
Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 248.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 10801C.
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Transcripts of nine letters, 18 July - 6 August, 1803, and undated, being correspondence between Henry Addington (aft. 1st viscount Sidmouth), Chancellor of the Exchequer, and George, Prince of Wales (aft. King George IV), and between the latter and his father King George III, touching the Prince's application, in view of the threat of invasion, for a military command. Endorsed: 'Letters delivered to the Revd. Henry Glasse by Coll. Macmahon at the command of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales'.
Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 248.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 10802D.
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Transcripts by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn of the King's minute to his Cabinet, 17 March, 1807, with a covering letter, and of the Cabinet's reply, touching legislation for the Catholics of Ireland.
Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 248.
Title based on contents.
Some of the letters have been printed in part in Rachel Leighton (ed.): Correspondence of Charlotte Grenville, Lady Williams Wynn ... (London, 1920).
Preferred citation: NLW MS 10803D.
Published
A group of nineteen letters, 1797-1840, written by Fanny Williams Wynn, mainly to her brother Charles Watkin Williams Wynn.
See also NLW MS 2787D, which contains letters to Fanny Williams Wynn, mainly from family members and also from Hester Cotton and Mary Cunliffe.
Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 248.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 10804D.
Published
A group of sixteen letter books of Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 1807-1813, 1825-1831, containing carbon copies of private and professional letters, the correspondents including his brothers Watkin Williams Wynn and Henry Watkin Williams Wynn, Robert Southey, Edward Herbert, 1st earl of Powis, Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington, William Wyndham Grenville, baron Grenville, Sir Charles Grey, Lord Chief Justice of Bengal, Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta, and Daniel Corrie, bishop of Madras. Among the subjects of Welsh interest discussed are the parliamentary elections for Montgomeryshire and Flint, 1807, and the Montgomeryshire Local Militia.
For other collections of Charles Watkin Williams Wynn correspondence, see NLW MSS 4811-4813D, containing letters, 1796-c 1839, to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn from Robert Southey; NLW MSS 4814-4815D, containing letters, 1804-1838, from Charles Watkin Williams Wynn to Robert Southey; and NLW MSS 4816-4818D, containing letters, 1820-1853, to Henry Williams Wynn mainly from Charles Watkin Williams Wynn.
See also NLW MS 10805D, which contains transcripts by Arthur Watkin Williams Wynn of the letters contained in this volume.
Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 249.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 10805D.
Published
Transcripts by A. W. Williams Wynn from the letters contained in NLW MS 10804.
For the originals of these transcripts, see NLW MS 10804D.
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Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 249.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 10806B.
Published
Remarks by A. W. Williams Wynn, 1935, on a dissertation on 'Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 1775-1850' submitted in 1934 by Gwyneth Evans, Holyhead, in candidature for the degree of Master of Arts of the University of Wales.
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Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961), p. 249.