GWYNNE, Sir Rowland (c.1659-1726), of Llanelwedd, Rad.

Family and Education

b. c. 1659, 1st s. of George Gwynne† of Llanelwedd by Sybill, da. and h. of Roderick Gwynne of Llanelwedd. educ. St. John’s, Oxf. matric. 16 July 1674, aged 15; G. Inn 1679. m. Mary (d. 1722), da. and h. of William Bassett, DCL, of Broviscan, Glam., s.p. suc. fa. c.1673; Kntd. 28 May 1680. W. R. Williams, Old Wales, i. 250, 379; G. T. Clark, Genealogies of Glam. 354; Boyer, Pol. State, xxiii. 235.

Offices Held

Gent. privy chamber 1671–?83; treasurer of chamber 1689–92. CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 68, 119; 1691–2, p. 255; LS 13/231/16.

Freeman, New Radnor by 1681, common councilman by Feb.– Dec. 1690; sheriff, Brec. Jan.– July 1688; steward of crown manors, Rad. 1689–91; custos rot. Rad. 1689–1702, Brec. May– Oct. 1689; gamekeeper, manor of Havering-atte-Bower, Essex 1689. Jones, Brec. i. 131; Arch. Camb. (ser. 3), iii. 189; CSP Dom. 1689–90, pp. 89, 240, 271; Add. 70014, f. 355;

FRS 1681–c.1719. M. Hunter, R. Soc. and Its Fellows, 100, 154.

Chairman, cttee. of privileges and elections 1698–1702.

Parlimentarian

GWYNNE, Rowland (c.1658-1726), of Llanelwedd, Rad.

Main residence: Llanelwedd, Rad.

Author

D.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

GWYNNE, Sir Rowland (c.1659-1726)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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