Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough

The Right Honourable The Lord Newborough
Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough (Nathaniel Hone the Elder,1766)
Member of the Great Britain Parliament for Caernarvonshire
In office 1761–1774
Preceded by	Sir John Wynn
Succeeded by	Thomas Assheton Smith
Member of the Great Britain Parliament for St Ives with: Adam Drummond
In office 1775–1780
Preceded by	Adam Drummond William Praed
Succeeded by	William Praed Abel Smith
Member of the Great Britain Parliament for Beaumaris
In office 1796–1800
Preceded by	Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn
Succeeded by	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of Parliament for Beaumaris
In office 1801–1807
Preceded by	Parliament of Great Britain
Succeeded by	Edward Pryce Lloyd
Personal details
Born	1736
Died	12 October 1807 (aged 68–69)
Spouses	Lady Catherine Perceval ​ ​ (m. 1766; died 1782)​ Maria Stella Chiappini ​ ​ (m. 1786)​
Children	Thomas Wynn, 2nd Baron Newborough Spencer Bulkeley Wynn, 3rd Baron Newborough
Parent	Sir John Wynn, 2nd Baronet
Occupation	Politician, peer

Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough (1736 – 12 October 1807), 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. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Carnarvonshire between 1761 and 1781 and raised and commanded the Carnarvon Militia. 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

Plas Glynllifon - 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, daughter of Lorenzo Chiappini, 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)

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 died in 1843.

References

• Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.
• John Harris; Robert Hradsky; Sir John Soane's Museum (15 June 2007). A passion for building: the amateur architect in England 1650-1850. Sir John Soane's Museum & National Tour. ISBN 9780954904166.
• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Thomas Nicholas (1872). 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 ... Longmans.
• 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.