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WYNDHAM, SIR WILLIAM, BART . (16871740), English politician, was the only son of Sir Edward Wyndham , Bart., and a grandson of William Wyndham (d. 1683) of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, who was created a baronet in 1661. Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, he entered parliament in 1710 and became secretary-at-war in the Tory ministry in 1712 and chancellor of the exchequer in 1713. He was closely associated with Lord Bolingbroke, and he was privy to the attempts made to bring about a Jacobite restoration on the death of Queen Anne; when these failed he was dismissed from office. In 1715 the failure of a Jacobite movement
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The Wyndham Family. Sir John Wyndham, a Norfolk man, was knighted after the battle of Stoke in 1487 and beheaded for high treason on the 2nd of May 1502. He married Margaret, daughter of John Howard, duke of Norfolk, and his son Sir Thomas Wyndham (d. 1521), of Felbrigg, Norfolk, was vice-admiral of England under Henry VIII. By his first wife Sir Thomas was the father of Sir John Wyndham, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Sydenham of Orchard, Somerset, and founded the Somerset branch of the family, and also of Sir Edmund Wyndham of Felbrigg, who was sheriff of Norfolk at the time of Robert Ket's rebellion. By his second wife Sir Thomas was the father of the seaman Thomas Wyndham (c. 15101553), an account of whose voyage to Morocco in 1552 is printed in Hakluyt's Voyages. From Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham was descended Thomas Wyndham (16811745), lord chancellor of Ireland from 1726 to 1739, who in 1731 was created Baron Wyndham of Finglass, a title which became extinct on his death. His nephew, Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (17361819), the topographer, wrote A Gentleman
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Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham was also the ancestor of the Windhams of Felbrigg, who adopted this form of spelling the family name, the most noteworthy members of which were the statesman William Windham (q.v.), and Sir Charles Ash Windham (1810-1870), a soldier who commanded in the Crimea and in the Indian Mutiny. The Wyndhams are also connected through a female line with the family of Wyndham-Quin, which holds the earldom of Dun-raven. Valentine Richard Quin (17521824), of Adare, county Limerick, was created Baron Adare on the union with England in 1800, and earl of Dunraven and Mount
he was also prominent as a yachtsman, competing for the America cup (see YACHTING) in 1893 and 1895. End of Article: WYNDHAM, SIR WILLIAM, BART If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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