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WILLIAMS WYNN, Charles Watkin (1775-1850), of Llangedwyn, Denb.
Family and Education
b. 9 Oct. 1775, 2nd s. of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th bt.† (d. 1789), of Wynnstay and 2nd w. Charlotte, da. of George Grenville†; bro. of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 5th bt.* and Henry Watkin Williams Wynn†. educ. by Rev. Robert Nares 1779-83; Westminster 1784; Christ Church, Oxf. 1791; L. Inn 1795, called 1798. m. 9 Apr. 1806, Mary, da. of Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd bt., of Acton Park, Denb., 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 5 da. d. 2 Sept. 1850.
Offices Held
Under-sec. of state for home affairs Feb. 1806 – Apr. 1807; pres. bd. of control (with a seat in the cabinet) Jan. 1822 – Jan. 1828; PC 17 Jan. 1822; sec. at war Nov. 1830 – Apr. 1831; chan. of duchy of Lancaster Dec. 1834 – Apr. 1835; eccles. commr. 1835.
Recorder, Oswestry 1798 – 1835; bencher, L. Inn 1835.
Vol. London and Westminster light horse 1798 – 99, 1801 – 03; maj. Ruabon vols. 1798, lt.-col. commdt. 1803; lt.-col. commdt. Mont. vol. legion 1803 – 08; col. E. Denb. militia 1808; commdt. Mont. yeoman cav. 1808 – 28, 1831–44.
Main residence: Llangedwyn, Denb.
Notes
Reference was made to unpublished work by Gwyneth Evans, ‘Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 1775-1850’ (Univ. of Wales M.A. thesis, 1935), which treats the subject chronologically; M.A. Whittle, ‘Charles Watkin Williams Wynn (1775-1850): a political biography’ (Univ. of Wales M.A. thesis, 1984), which treats it thematically; and A.W. Williams Wynn, ‘Mem. of Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 1796-1850’ (1936), held at NLW. There is no published biography of note.
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TEMPLE, Henry John, 3rd Visct. Palmerston [I] (1784-1865), of Broadlands, nr. Romsey, Hants and 9 Great Stanhope Street, Mdx.
Family and Education
b. 20 Oct. 1784, 1st s. of Henry Temple, 2nd Visct. Palmerston [I]†, and 2nd w. Mary, da. of Benjamin Mee, merchant, of Bath, Som. educ. by Gaetano Ravizzotti, an Italian tutor; Harrow 1795; Edinburgh Univ. 1800; St. John’s, Camb. 1803. m. 16 Dec. 1839, Not the 11th, as erroneously stated in HP Commons, 1790-1820, v. 348. Hon. Emily Mary Lamb, da. of Peniston Lamb, 1st Visct. Melbourne [I]†, wid. of Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau, 5th Earl Cowper, s.p. legit.; 2s. 2da. illegit. suc. fa. as 3rd Visct. Palmerston [I] 16 Apr. 1802; GCB 6 June 1832; KG 12 July 1856. d. 18 Oct. 1865.
Offices Held
Ld. of admiralty Apr. 1807 – Oct. 1809; sec. at war Oct. 1809 – May 1828, with seat in cabinet Apr. 1827; PC 1 Nov. 1809; sec. of state for foreign affairs Nov. 1830 – Nov. 1834, Apr. 1835 – Sept. 1841, July 1846 – Dec. 1851; sec. of state for home affairs Dec. 1852 – Feb. 1855; first ld. of treasury 10 Feb. 1855 – 25 Feb. 1858, 18 June 1859 – d.
Capt. Fawley vol. inf. 1803 – 04; lt.-col. commdt. S. W. Hants militia 1809.
Ld. warden, Cinque Ports 1861 – d.; master, Trinity House 1862 – d.; ld. rect. Glasgow Univ. 1862 – d.
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Main residences: Broadlands, nr. Romsey, Hants.; 9 Great Stanhope Street, Mdx.
Notes
Palmerston’s pprs., some of which are accessible at www.archives.soton.ac.uk/palmerston, form part of the Broadlands mss at Southampton Univ. Lib. These were partly printed in Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer (Lord Dalling), Life of Henry John Temple, Visct. Palmerston, 5 vols. (1870-6) [hereafter cited as Bulwer]; following Dalling’s death, the last three volumes of this work were edited and written by the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, who prepared a revised and enlarged edition, Life and Corresp. of Henry John Temple, Visct. Palmerston, 2 vols. (1879) [hereafter cited as Ashley]. P. Guedalla’s influential but romanticized portrait, Palmerston (1926) and H.C.F. Bell’s workmanlike Lord Palmerston, 2 vols. (1936), were echoed in a number of routine 20th century biographies, to which D. Southgate’s study, ‘The Most English Minister’: The Politics and Policies of Palmerston (1966), was a worthy companion. J. Ridley’s generally reliable Lord Palmerston (1972 edn.) has been superseded by the most recent life, J. Chambers, Palmerston: ‘The People’s Darling’ (2004); while, as a basic introduction, M. Chamberlain, Lord Palmerston (1987) is preferable to P.R. Ziegler, Palmerston (2003). For the first half of his career, the authoritative account is K. Bourne, Palmerston, The Early Years, 1784-1841 (1982), which is much relied on here; as, for his diplomacy, is Sir C. Webster, Foreign Policy of Palmerston, 1830-1841: Britain, the Liberal Movement and the Eastern Question, 2 vols. (1951).
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RUSSELL, Lord John (1792-1878).
Family and Education
b. 18 Aug. 1792, 3rd s. of John Russell†, 6th duke of Bedford (d. 1839), and 1st w. Hon. Georgiana Elizabeth Byng, da. of George, 4th Visct. Torrington; bro. of Francis Russell, mq. of Tavistock* and Lord George William Russell*. educ. by Dr. Moore, Sunbury, Mdx. 1800-1; Westminster 1803-4; privately by Dr. Edmund Cartwright 1804-5; by Rev. John Smith at Woodnesborough, nr. Sandwich, Kent 1805-8; Edinburgh Univ. 1809-12. m. (1) 11 Apr. 1835, Adelaide (d. 1 Nov. 1838), da. of Thomas Lister of Armitage Park, Staffs., wid. of her 2nd cos. Thomas Lister, 2nd Bar. Ribblesdale, 2da.; (2) 20 July 1841, Lady Frances Anna Maria Elliot Murray Kynynmound, da. of Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound†, 2nd earl of Minto, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da. cr. Earl Russell 30 July 1861; KG 21 May 1862; GCMG 25 Mar. 1869. d. 28 May 1878.
Offices Held
PC 22 Nov. 1830; paymaster-gen. Dec. 1830-Dec. 1834 (in cabinet from June 1831); commr. on civil administration of army 1833 – 34, 1835 – 37; sec. of state for home affairs Apr. 1835 – Sept. 1839; ecclesiastical commr. 1835 – 37; sec. of state for war and colonies Sept. 1839 – Sept. 1841; first ld. of treasury 6 July 1846 – 27 Feb. 1852, 3 Nov. 1865 – 6 July 1866; commr. on new bishoprics 1847; sec. of state for foreign affairs Dec. 1852 – Feb. 1853, June 1859 – Nov. 1865; in cabinet without office Feb. 1853 – June 1854; ld. pres. of council June 1854 – Feb. 1855; 4th charity commr. 1854 – 56; special mission to Vienna Feb. – Apr. 1855; sec. of state for colonies May-July 1855.
Rect. Glasgow Univ. 1846 – 47, Aberdeen Univ. 1863–6.
Capt. Beds. militia 1810.
Parlimentarian
Notes
See S. Walpole, Life of Lord John Russell, 2 vols. (1889) and J. Prest, Lord John Russell (1972).
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