Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn 1783-1856

On 11th or 13th April 1769 [his father] Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet [aged 19] and Henrietta Somerset Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 20] were married. She died fifteen weeks later. She the daughter of Charles Noel Somerset 4th Duke Beaufort and Elizabeth Berkeley Duchess Beaufort [aged 56].

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

On 16th March 1783 Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn was born to Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet [aged 33] and Charlotte Granville Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 29].

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

On 30th September 1813 Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn [aged 30] and Hester Frances Smith [aged 23] were married.

On 15th December 1816 Charles Stanhope 3rd Earl Stanhope [aged 63] died. His son Philip [aged 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 [aged 35] and [his wife] Hester Frances Smith [aged 29].

On 29th September 1830 [his mother] Charlotte Granville Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 76] died.

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

On 1st March 1851 Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn [aged 67] was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

On 28th April 1852 [his son-in-law] Watkin Williams-Wynn 6th Baronet [aged 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 5th March 1854 [his wife] Hester Frances Smith [aged 64] died.

Memorials of Charlotte Williams-Wynn: To Baron von Ense. 1st November 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, 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 [aged 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 28th March 1856 Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn [aged 73] died.

After 28th March 1856. Memorial to Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn [deceased] and [his former wife] Hester Frances Smith. Sculpted by Bedford of Oxford Street.

Hester Frances Smith: Around 1790 she was born to Robert Smith 1st Baron Carrington. On 30th September 1813 Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn and she were married. On 5th March 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. She married 28th April 1852 her first cousin Watkin Williams-Wynn 6th Baronet, son of Watkin Williams-Wynn 5th Baronet and Henrietta Antonia Clive Lady Williams-Wynn, and had issue.

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