Wyndham (name)
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The Wyndham family are descended from Sir John Wyndham (1443–1503) and his wife Margaret (1443–1524) daughter of John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, a direct descendant of Edward I. Succeeding generations have played an important role in English politics, the law, the military and the arts.
Branches of the family are styled variously as Earl of Egremont, Earl of Thomond and Baron Ibracken, Baron Wyndham, Baron Leconfield and Baron Egremont, Wyndham baronets of Trent, Wyndham baronets of Pilsden Court, and Wyndham baronets of Orchard Wyndham:
The senior line of the Wyndham family is today represented by Max Wyndham, Baron Egremont who lives at the family seat of Petworth House in Sussex.
Notable Wyndhams include:
- Thomas Wyndham (navigator), (1508–1554), English soldier and sailor.
- Sir John Wyndham (1558-1645) of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, English defence organiser
- Sir Hugh Wyndham, (1602–1684), English judge
- Sir Wadham Wyndham (judge), (1609–1668), English judge
- Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet, of Orchard Wyndham (c. 1632–1683), English politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Somerset 1656–1658 and for Taunton 1660–1679.
- Sir Edward Wyndham, 2nd Baronet (c. 1667–1695), English politician
- Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham, (1681–1745) title in the Peerage of Ireland
- Charles William Wyndham (1760–1828), English Member of Parliament (MP) for Midhurst 1790–95, New Shoreham 1795–1802, and Sussex 1807–1812
- Sir Charles Wyndham (1638–1706), MP for Southampton (1679–1689 and 1689–1698) and St Ives (1698–1701)
- Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, (1687–1740), English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1713–1714
- Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, (1710–1763), British peer
- Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond, (c. 1713–1774), MP and Irish peer
- Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, (1736–1819), British politician and topographer
- Wadham Wyndham (army officer), (1737–1812), English colonel and bon vivant
- William Windham, (1750–1810), British Whig statesman
- George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751–1837), British peer
- Wadham Wyndham (parliamentarian) (1773–1843), MP for Salisbury 1818–1833, 1835–1843
- George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield (1787–1869), British peer
- Henry Wyndham (1790–1860), MP for West Cumberland 1857–1860
- Wadham Wyndham (political supporter) (1793–1849), DL, JP, and political supporter
- William Wyndham (1796-1862), MP for South Wiltshire 1852–1859
- Charles Wyndham (1796-1866), English Member of Parliament for West Sussex 1841–1847
- Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield (1830–1901), British peer
- Percy Wyndham (1835–1911), British politician
- Sir Hugh Wyndham (1836–1916), British minister to Brazil
- George Wyndham (1863–1913), British political figure and writer
- Lt Col Guy Wyndham (1865–1941), soldier
- Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield (1872–1952), British peer
- Dr Sir Harold Wyndham (1903–1988), prominent Australian educator and public servant
- John Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield (1920–1972), British peer
- Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont (born 1948), British author
- Elizabeth Geraldine Wyndham (15 Dec 1922 – 13 May 2008), civil servant and socialite, adopted daughter of Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield. A polyglot, during the Second World War, she worked as a linguist in the British codebreaking department at Bletchley Park.
See also
- Other people with the last name of Wyndham
- John Wyndham (1903–1969), English author (nom de plume)
- Charles Wyndham (actor) (1837–1919), English actor (who assumed the name) and founded Wyndham's Theatre in the West End
- Frederick W. Wyndham (1853–1930), British actor and producer, managing director of Howard & Wyndham theatres in Scotland and England
- Robert Henry Wyndham (1814–1894), British actor-manager, father of Frederick W. Wyndham
- Victoria Wyndham (born 1945), Mexican-American actress
- Valerie Wyndham, ring name of American professional wrestling valet Paige Mayo (born 1986)
- Dr Jeremy Wyndham (1956–2003), doctor of physics and author
- People with the first name of Wyndham
- Wyndham Davies (1926–1984), British politician
- Wyndham Emery (1897–1969), Welsh rugby player
- Wyndham Halswelle (1882–1915), Scottish athlete
- Wyndham Hazelton (1894–1958), English cricketer
- Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), English author and artist
- Wyndham Meredith Manning (1890–1967), South Carolina politician
- Wyndham Robertson (1803–1888), governor of Virginia, 1836–1837
- Wyndham Wise, Canadian film historian and critic
- Martyn Wyndham-Read, musician
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