Biography of Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn 1783-1856

On 13 Apr 1769 [his father] Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet (age 19) and Henrietta Somerset Lady Williams-Wynn (age 20) were married. She died fifteen weeks later. She the daughter of Charles Noel Somerset 4th Duke Beaufort and Elizabeth Berekeley Duchess Beaufort (age 56).

In Dec 1771 [his father] Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet (age 22) and [his mother] Charlotte Granville Lady Williams-Wynn (age 17) were married. She by marriage Lady Williams of Gray's Inn.

On 16 Mar 1783 Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn was born to Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet (age 33) and Charlotte Granville Lady Williams-Wynn (age 29).

On 24 Jul 1789 [his father] Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet (age 39) died. His son [his brother] Watkin (age 16) succeeded 5th Baronet Williams of Gray's Inn.

On 30 Sep 1813 Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn (age 30) and Hester Frances Smith (age 23) were married.

On 15 Dec 1816 Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl Stanhope (age 63) died. His son Philip (age 35) succeeded 4th Earl Stanhope. [his sister-in-law] Catherine Lucy Smith Countess Stanhope by marriage Countess Stanhope.

In 1819 [his son] Arthur Williams-Wynn was born to Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn (age 35) and [his wife] Hester Frances Smith (age 29).

On 29 Sep 1830 [his mother] Charlotte Granville Lady Williams-Wynn (age 76) died.

In 1843 [his sister-in-law] Catherine Lucy Smith Countess Stanhope died.

On 01 Mar 1851 Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn (age 67) was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

On 28 Apr 1852 [his son-in-law] Watkin Williams-Wynn 6th Baronet (age 31) and [his daughter] Marie Emily Williams-Wynn Lady Williams-Wynn were married. She by marriage Lady Williams of Gray's Inn. They were first cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 05 Mar 1854 [his wife] Hester Frances Smith (age 64) died.

Memorials of Charlotte Williams-Wynn: To Baron von Ense. 01 Nov 1854. London, November 1, 1854. We landed at Dover on the 13th, and since then have had so much business and anxiety that I have really lived only upon the newspapers. On our arrival we were met by the news of the death of my cousin, [his son] Arthur Williams-Wynn, in that fearful battle. For two others we are also in mourning, though they were not such near relations. My poor Uncle, Sir Henry (age 71), has been quite overwhelmed by his loss - his favourite son, and the one whom he trusted was coming home to many and live with him! Every alleviation that the case admitted of they have. The poor (?) boy had a presentiment he should fall, and wrote the day before to take leave of his father and sister, expressing his last wishes. The next evening he was found surrounded by his brother-officers close to the Russian gun, lying sword in hand, the ball having passed through his forehead. He evidently had died instantaneously, and for this exemption from suffering we are most thankful, for the thought of the long agony that the wounded went through is a horrible one. In truth, one never realised before what war is; you all know it well, and our fathers knew it! I do not think, if I had a dozen brothers there, that I could feel more anxiety. The mourning is sadly general, hardly a family that has not suffered remotely, and London looks very melancholy from the quantity of black worn in the streets, although this proceeds from the ravages which the cholera made rather than from those of the war. We are all busy sending out chaplains and nurses, and surgeons and comforts, to the sick and wounded - but to me it is just as bad to read, as I did to-day in the Times, that the air is tainted with the number of Russians who have fallen, as if they were our soldiers. It is the fact that such scenes are going on that burdens one's spirit!

On 28 Mar 1856 Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn (age 73) died.

After 28 Mar 1856. Memorial to Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn (deceased) and [his former wife] Hester Frances Smith. Sculpted by Beford of Oxford Street.

Hester Frances Smith: Around 1790 she was born to Robert Smith 1st Baron Carrington. On 30 Sep 1813 Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn and she were married. On 05 Mar 1854 Hester Frances Smith died.

[his son] Henry Bertie Watkins Williams-Wynn was born to Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn and Hester Frances Smith.

[his daughter] Marie Emily Williams-Wynn Lady Williams-Wynn was born to Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn and Hester Frances Smith.

[his son] Grenville Watkins Williams-Wynn was born to Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn and Hester Frances Smith.