GWYNNE, John II (d.1574), of St. John’s College, Cambridge; Paternoster Row, London and Maenan, Caern.

Family and Education

5th s. of John Wynn ap Meredydd of Gwydir by Ellen, da. of Maurice ap John of Clenennau. educ. Queens’, Camb. 1545, BA 1547-8, MA (St. John’s) 1551, LLD 1560; adv. Doctors’ Commons 1560; I. Temple c.1561. unm. Griffith, Peds. 281; J. Wynn, Gwydir Fam. 74; Coote, Civilians, 45; Ath. Cant. i. 324.

Offices Held

Fellow, St. John’s, Camb. from 1548, proctor 1555 – 56; prebendary, Bangor cathedral 1550 – 51, 1554 – 74; rector, Llanrhaeadr yng Nghinmeirch, Denb. 1556; ?j.p. Mont. 1564; commr. concealed lands in Wales by 1564; j.p. Caern. by 1574.Al. Cant. i(1), p. 277; Williams, Parl. Hist. Wales, 36; A. I. Pryce, Diocese of Bangor in 16th Cent. 12, 14, 15, 16, 22; DWB; Le Neve, Fasti, i. 120; CPR, 1563–6, p. 30; Augmentations, ed. Lewis and Davies (Univ. Wales Bd. of Celtic Studies, Hist. and Law ser. xiii), 204.

Parlimentarian

GWYNNE, John II (d.1574), of St. John’s College, Cambridge; Paternoster Row, London and Maenan, Caern.

Main residences: St. John's College, Cambridge and Paternoster Row, London and Maenan, Caern.

Author

A.H.D.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

GWYNNE, John II (-d.1574)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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