The Glynne Baronetcy, of Bisseter

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 in the County of Oxford

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, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 20 May 1661 for William Glynne

Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet

Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet was a Welsh politician.William was the son of Sir John Glynne, the Lord Chief Justice during the Commonwealth. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, taking his degree in 1656, and represented Caernarfon in the Third Protectorate Parliament...

, the former Member of Parliament

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 for Carnarvon. He was the son of Sir John Glynne

John Glynne (judge)

Sir John Glynne KS was a Welsh lawyer of the Commonwealth and Restoration periods, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, under Oliver Cromwell...

, Lord Chief Justice during the Commonwealth. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Oxford University

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 and Woodstock

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. The sixth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Flintshire

Flintshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Flint. The title became extinct on the death in 1874 of Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet

Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet

Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 9th Baronet was a Welsh landowner and Conservative Party politician. He is principally remembered as an assiduous antiquary and student of British church architecture...

. The family estates, including Hawarden Castle

Hawarden Castle (18th century)

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 in Flintshire

Flintshire

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, had been rescued from bankruptcy by the wealth of Sir John Gladstone, whose son William Ewart Gladstone

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 (the Liberal Prime Minister) had married the ninth Baronet's sister Catherine

Catherine Gladstone

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; on his death, they passed to Catherine and William's eldest son William Henry Gladstone

William Henry Gladstone

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.

Glynne Baronets, of Bisseter (1661)

• Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet was a Welsh politician.William was the son of Sir John Glynne, the Lord Chief Justice during the Commonwealth. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, taking his degree in 1656, and represented Caernarfon in the Third Protectorate Parliament...
  
   (1638–1690)
• Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet
  Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet
  Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet was a Welsh lawyer and politician.The elder son of Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet , he was educated at Oxford University, and was Member of Parliament for Oxford University from 1698 until 1701. He then represented the borough of Woodstock from 1702 until 1705, and...
  
   (1663–1721)
• Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet (7 February 1665–29 April 1729). Glynne married Sophia Evelyn (his sister-in-law), by whom he had three sons, the 4th, 5th, and 6th Baronets.
• Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet (c. 1696–September 1729)
• Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet (c.1710–August 1730). Glynne died unmarried at Aix-la-Chapelle.
• Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet
  Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet
  Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet was a Welsh politician and landowner.Glynne was the third son of Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, and succeeded to the baronetcy after the successive deaths of his father and elder brothers in 1729 and 1730...
  
   (1712–1777)
• Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet (12 May 1744–1 April 1780). Glynne was educated at Queen's College, Oxford and took holy orders
  Holy Orders
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  , becoming rector
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   of Hawarden. He married Mary Bennett in 1779, and died of a ruptured blood vessel while hunting the next year.
• Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 8th Baronet (May 1780–5 March 1815). Glynne was the posthumous son of the 7th Baronet. He was educated at Eton
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   and Christ Church, Oxford
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  . Sir Stephen was an amateur architect and an agriculturalist. In 1806, he married Mary Griffin, daughter of Lord Braybrooke. He died at Nice
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   in 1815 and was succeeded by his son Stephen.
• Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 9th Baronet
  Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
  Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 9th Baronet was a Welsh landowner and Conservative Party politician. He is principally remembered as an assiduous antiquary and student of British church architecture...
  
  (1807–1874)