Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet 1749-1789

Before July 1748 [his father] Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet [aged 56] and Ann Vaughan were married.

In July 1748 [his father] Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet [aged 56] and [his mother] Frances Shackerley Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 27] were married. She was his god-daughter. The difference in their ages was 29 years.

On 23rd September 1749 Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet was born to Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet [aged 57] and Frances Shackerley Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 28].

On 26th September 1749 [his father] Watkin Williams-Wynn 3rd Baronet [aged 57] died. His son Watkin succeeded 4th Baronet Williams of Gray's Inn. [his future wife] Henrietta Somerset Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 1] by marriage Lady Williams of Gray's Inn.

After 1769. Joshua Reynolds [aged 45]. Portrait of Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet [aged 19] and [his future wife] Henrietta Somerset Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 20]. The couple are depicted life-size in matching black and pink Van Dyck costume, and are holding theatrical masks in a curtained architectural setting, beside a massive vase. The picture was presumably a marriage portrait although the black costume of the figures suggest that it was completed as a memorial portrait after Henrietta Williams-Wynn's death in 1770.

On 11th or 13th April 1769 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].

On or before 25th July 1770 [his daughter] Henrietta Elizabeth Williams-Wynn Baroness Delamere was born to Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet [aged 20] and [his wife] Henrietta Somerset Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 22]. She married 17th December 1810 Thomas Cholmondeley 1st Baron Delamere and had issue.

On 25th July 1770 [his wife] Henrietta Somerset Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 22] died. Monument [Map] to Henrietta Somerset Lady Williams-Wynn sculpted by Joseph Nollekens [aged 32].

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

On 25th October 1772 [his son] Watkin Williams-Wynn 5th Baronet was born to Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet [aged 23] and [his wife] Charlotte Granville Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 18]. He married 4th February 1817 Henrietta Antonia Clive Lady Williams-Wynn, daughter of Edward Clive 1st Earl Powis and Henrietta Antonia Herbert 3rd Countess Powis, and had issue.

In 1775 [his brother-in-law] George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 21] and Mary Elizabeth Nugent Marchioness Buckingham [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 66] and Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent [aged 55].

On 9th October 1775 [his son] Charles Williams-Wynn was born to Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet [aged 26] and [his wife] Charlotte Granville Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 21]. He married 1806 Mary Cunliffe, daughter of Foster Cunliffe 3rd Baronet and Harriet Kinloch Lady Cunliffe, and had issue.

On 12th September 1779 Richard Grenville-Temple 2nd Earl Temple [aged 67] died in a carriage accident without surviving issue. His nephew [his brother-in-law] George [aged 26] succeeded 3rd Earl Temple, 4th Viscount Cobham.

On 10th May 1782 Hugh Fortescue 1st Earl Fortescue [aged 29] and [his sister-in-law] Hester Granville Countess Fortescue [aged 16] were married.

On 16th March 1783 [his son] Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn was born to Watkin Williams-Wynn 4th Baronet [aged 33] and [his wife] Charlotte Granville Lady Williams-Wynn [aged 29]. He married 30th September 1813 Hester Frances Smith, daughter of Robert Smith 1st Baron Carrington, and had issue.

In December 1784 [his brother-in-law] George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 31] was created 1st Marquess Buckingham.

On 13th October 1788 Robert Nugent 1st Earl Nugent [aged 79] died. [his brother-in-law] George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Earl Nugent. Viscount Clare, Baron Nugent extinct.

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

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