Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (4 October 1822 - 25 April 1896) was a Welsh Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880.

Williams-Wynn was the son of Charles Watkin Wiliams-Wynn, who was M.P. for Montgomeryshire 1796-1850, and his wife Mary Cunliffe daughter of Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet. He was educated at Westminster School

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 and at Christ Church, Oxford

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 graduating BA in 1843 and MA in 1846. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn

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 in May 1846. He was a Deputy Lieutenant

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 and J.P.

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 for Montgomeryshire, and captain in the Montgomery Yeomanry Cavalry.

In 1862 Williams-Wynn was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Montgomeryshire

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. He held the seat until 1880.

Williams-Wynn died at the age of 73.

WIlliams-Wynn married Lady Annora Charlotte Pierrepont daughter of Charles Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers

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