Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = The Lord Newborough

| image = File:Thomas Wynn, later 3rd Bt and 1st Baron Newborough (1736-1807), by Nathaniel Hone.jpg

| caption = Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough (Nathaniel Hone the Elder,1766)

| birthname =

| birth_date = 1736

| birth_place =

| death_date = 12 October {{death year and age|1807|1738}}

| death_place =

| occupation = Politician, peer

| constituency_MP = Caernarvonshire

| parliament = Great Britain

| term_start = 1761

| term_end = 1774

| predecessor = Sir John Wynn

| successor = Thomas Assheton Smith

| constituency_MP1 = St Ives
with: Adam Drummond

| parliament1 = Great Britain

| term_start1 = 1775

| term_end1 = 1780

| predecessor1 = Adam Drummond
William Praed

| successor1 = William Praed
Abel Smith

| constituency_MP2 = Beaumaris

| parliament2 = Great Britain

| term_start2 = 1796

| term_end2 = 1800

| predecessor2 = Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn

| successor2 = Parliament of the United Kingdom

| constituency_MP3 = Beaumaris

| parliament3 = United Kingdom

| term_start3 = 1801

| term_end3 = 1807

| predecessor3 = Parliament of Great Britain

| successor3 = Edward Pryce Lloyd

| spouse = {{Plainlist|

{{marriage|Lady Catherine Perceval|1766|1782|end=d}}
{{marriage|Maria Stella Chiappini|1786}}

}}

| children = {{Plainlist|

| parents = Sir John Wynn, 2nd Baronet

}}

Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough (1736 – 12 October 1807),Harris & Hradsky, p. 47. known as Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet, from 1773 to 1776, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1761 and 1807.

Career

Wynn was the son of Sir John Wynn, 2nd Baronet. He went to Italy on the "Grand Tour" in 1759–60. He sat as a Member of Parliament for Carnarvonshire from 1761 to 1774, for St Ives from 1775 to 1780 and for Beaumaris from 1796 to 1807.{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/wynn-thomas-1736-1807 | title= WYNN, Thomas (1736-1807), of Glynnllivon, Caern. .| publisher= History of Parliament Online| access-date = 3 December 2017}} He served as Lord Lieutenant of Carnarvonshire between 1761 and 1781 and raised and commanded the Carnarvon Militia.Burke's: 'Newborough'.Owen, pp. 47–8. Wynn succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1773 and in 1776 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Newborough, of Newborough.

Marriages and children

File:Plas Glynllifon.jpg - seat of the Lords Newborough]]

Lord Newborough married, firstly, Lady Catherine, daughter of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, in 1766. The couple had one child:

Hon. John Wynn (27 April 1772 – 18 December 1800)

After Lady Catherine's death in 1782, Lord Newborough married, secondly, thirteen-year-old Maria Stella Petronilla, formally daughter of Lorenzo Chiappini (but maybe a member of the House of Orléans), in 1786; Maria Stella was born at Modigliana, near Forlì (Italy), in 1773. The couple had two sons:

Thomas John Wynn, 2nd Baron Newborough (3 April 1802 – 15 November 1832)
Spencer Bulkeley Wynn, 3rd Baron Newborough (23 May 1803 – 1 November 1888)Nicholas, p. 358.

Lord Newborough died in October 1807 and was succeeded in his titles by his elder son from his second marriage, Thomas. Lady Newborough later remarried and became Baroness Ungern-Sternberg and died in 1843.

Notes

References

Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.
{{cite book|author1=John Harris|author2=Robert Hradsky|author3=Sir John Soane's Museum|title=A passion for building: the amateur architect in England 1650-1850|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AFxIAQAAIAAJ|date=15 June 2007|publisher=Sir John Soane's Museum & National Tour|page=|isbn=9780954904166}}
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
{{cite book|author=Thomas Nicholas|title=Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, Containing a Record of All Ranks of the Gentry, Their Lineage, Alliances, Appointments, Armorial Ensigns, and Residences ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yONSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA358|year=1872|publisher=Longmans|pages=}}
Bryn Owen, History of the Welsh Militia and Volunteer Corps 1757–1908: 1: Anglesey and Caernarfonshire, Caernarfon: Palace Books, 1989, ISBN 1-871904-00-5.

{{succession box

| title = Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire

| years = 1761–1774

| before = Sir John Wynn

| after = Thomas Assheton Smith

}}

{{succession box

| title = Member of Parliament for St Ives

| with = Adam Drummond

| years = 1775–1780

| before = Adam Drummond
William Praed

| after = William Praed
Abel Smith