Sir Richard Wynn, 2nd Baronet

Sir Richard Wynn, 2nd Baronet (1588 – 19 July 1649) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1649.

Wynn was the son of Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Lincoln's Inn. He entered Lord Chamberlain's service in 1608 and was a Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire in 1614.^[1] He was Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles, Prince of Wales, from 1617 to 1625. He unsuccessfully contested for Caernarvonshire in 1621, when he was defeated by John Griffith of Cefn Amwlch, marking the eclipse of the political influence of Gwydir in the county. However in the same election he returned as MP for Ilchester.^[1]

Wynn accompanied the prince on his voyage to Spain in 1623 and later wrote an account of the journey, published by T. Hearne in 1729 with the Historia vikie et regni Ricardi II. In 1625, he was elected MP for Ilchester again. He was also appointed treasurer to Queen Henrietta Maria. He inherited the baronetcy after the death of his father in 1627. In 1629, he was once again groom of the bedchamber to Charles (now crowned as King Charles I) and Henrietta Maria. He established the Gwydir chapel in Llanrwst church and had a bridge built over the River Conwy in 1633.

In April 1640, Wynn was elected MP for Andover, for Newton and for Bodmin in the Short Parliament and chose to sit for Andover.^[2] He was elected MP for Liverpool for the Long Parliament in November 1640. Despite his close connections with the royal family, he showed no eagerness to waste his estates in the king's service during the English Civil War and sat in parliament until 1648 when he was excluded under Pride's Purge. He died a few months later in 1649.

Wynn married Anne Darcy, daughter and coheiress of Sir Francis Darcy in 1618. There were no children and the baronetcy and estates fell to his brother Owen Wynn (1592–1660).

References

1. Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
2. William Duncombe Pink, Alfred B. Beaven The parliamentary representation of Lancashire, (county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, &c. (1889)

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "^{article name needed}". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• D.N.B., lxiii; Cal. Wynn (of Gwydir) Papers, passim; Clenennau Letters, i, Introduction
• Hist. Gwydir Family, passim; W. R. Williams, Parl. Hist. of Wales, passim
• E. Breeze, Kalendars of Gwynedd, passim; Cymm., xxxviii
• The Welsh Review, v, 187-191; Trans. Caern. Hist. Soc., 1939, 37-46; J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 280-1
• E. G. Jones, ‘The Caernarvonshire Squires, 1558-1625’ (unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Wales)