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  William Wyndham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, he entered parliament in 1710 and became Secretary at War in the Tory ministry in 1712 and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1713.
Under George I Wyndham was the leader of the opposition in the House of Commons, fighting for his High Church and Tory principles against Sir Robert Walpole.
Wyndham's first wife was Catherine, daughter of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset.
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 SIR WILLIAM WYNDHAM - LoveToKnow Article on SIR WILLIAM WYNDHAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sir John Wyndham, a Norfolk man, was knighted after the battle of Stoke in 1487 and beheaded for high treason on the 2nd of May 1502.
From Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham was descended Thomas Wyndham (1681-1745), lord chancellor of Ireland from 1726 to 1739, who in 1731 was created Baion Wyndham of Finglass, a title which became extinct on his death.
Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham was also the ancestor of the Windhams of Felbrigg, who adopted this form of spelling the family name, the most noteworthy members of which were the statesman William Windham (q.v.), and Sir Charles Ash Windham (1810-1870), a soldier who commanded in the Crimea and in the Indian Mutiny.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WY/WYNDHAM_SIR_WILLIAM.htm   (665 words)

  
 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 109   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William I the Pious of Aquitaine, Duke of Aquitaine
William III of Jülich, Duke of Jülich and Berg
William IX the Troubador of Aquitaine, Duke of Aquitaine, b.
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 Fuller Family of Sussex - pafg103 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John Wyndham was born in 1558 in Orchard Wyndham, St Decumans,Somerset.
William Gander was born in 1771 in Hooe, Sussex.
William Vitler Prior.William married Anne Gander on 17 Jan 1777 in Hooe, Sussex.
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 EGREMONT - LoveToKnow Article on EGREMONT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
His term of office, during which he acted in concert with his brother-in-law, George Grenville, was mainly occupied with the declaration of war on Spain and with the negotiations for peace with France and Spain, g peace the terms of which the earl seems to have disliked.
The 2nd earls son and successor, George OBrien Wyndham (1751-1837), was more famous as a patron of art and an agriculturist than as a politician, although he was not entirely indifferent to politics.
The barony afterwards passed by marriage to the families of Lucy and Multon, and finally came to the Percys, earls of Northumberland, from whom are descended the present lords of the manor of Egremont.
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 ipedia.com: William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, was a British statesman and Prime Minister.
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (October 25, 1759 - January 12, 1834), was a British statesman and Prime Minister.
The son of Prime Minister George Grenville, Grenville entered the Commons in 1782 and soon became a close ally of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, serving in the government as Paymaster of the Forces from 1784 to 1789.
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 William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Right Honourable William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (October 25, 1759 - January 12, 1834), was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister.
The son of Prime Minister George Grenville, Grenville studied at Eton, Christ Church, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn, and entered the Commons in 1782 and soon became a close ally of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, serving in the government as Paymaster of the Forces from 1784 to 1789.
William Windham - Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
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 NPG L146; The Death of the Earl of Chatham (includes John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess of Camden; William Pitt, 1st ...
William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833), Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805), Statesman and patron of the arts.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809), Statesman.
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 Fuller Family of Sussex - pafg112 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William Wyndham 3rd Bart [Parents] was born in 1688.
Percy Wyndham 1st and last Earl of Thomond died on 21 Jul 1774.
She married William Wyndham 3rd Bart on 01 Jun 1734 in Harlington, Middlesex.
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 WILLIAM WYNDHAM GRENVILLE, BARON GRENVILLE - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM WYNDHAM GRENVILLE, BARON GRENVILLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In February 1782 Grenville was returned to parliament as member for the borough of Buckingham, and in the follcwing September he became secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, who at this time was his brother, Earl Temple, afterwards marquess of Buckingham.
He left office in June 1783, but in the following December he became paymaster-general of the forces under his cousin, William Pitt, and in 1786 vice-president of the committee of trade.
In 1787 he was sent on an important mission to the Hague and Versailles with reference to the affairs of Holland.
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 EGREMONT, EARLS OF - Online Information article about EGREMONT, EARLS OF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Francis Wyndham, the 4th earl (1785-1845), the earldom of Egremont became See also:
Petworth, however, and the large estates had already passed to George Wyndham (1787-2869), a natural son of the 3rd earl, who was created See also:
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 Wine on the Web - Features, Wyndham
Wyndham Estate, founded in 1828, can justifiably claim the title of Australia's oldest surviving winery.
To tell the whole story it is necessary to go back to 1801 and the birth of George Wyndham, son of local squire William Wyndham and his wife Laetitia, who owned the prosperous estate of Dinton, near Salisbury, in the English county of Wiltshire.
The story is told that George Wyndham had a lot of problems with the convicts being unable to read, so he identified the various sections of his cellars with very specific bin numbers.
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 Henderson Prize for the Advancement of Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Serjeant William Davy (note: "serjeant" is a peerage, not a military rank), working on behalf of Somerset's benefactors, requested that the full hearing be postponed until 1772 to allow proper time for case preparation.
He and Henry Brougham petitioned William IV in May of 1832 to create a number of Whig peerages to enable reform; the king refused.
Grey dissolved the government, and William enlisted the current Tory leader and previous Prime Minister, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, to build a new government.
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 William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville --  Encyclopædia Britannica
English statesman, the brother-in-law of William Pitt, under whom he served as first lord of the Admiralty.
The English artist and writer Wyndham Lewis founded vorticism, the abstract movement in painting and literature before World War I that sought to relate art to the industrial process.
William Maxwell Aitken was born in Maple, Ont., in 1879.
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 William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, one of England's greatest and most famous statesmen, whose combined vision and practical ability led to a remarkable increase in English possessions and influence, was born at Golden Square, Westminister, on November 15, 1708.
He belonged inevitably to the group of "Cobham's cubs," the connection of family friends and place hunters whom Cobham was mobilizing to oppose the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole.
He took no active part in politics between 1764 and 1766, and was now becoming subject to the recurrent fits of manic-depressive insanity which were to cloud the rest of his life.
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William Wyndham Portal, later Sir William Wyndham Portal, 2nd Bt (1850-1931); Proprietor of Laverstoke Bank Note Paper Mills;
Deputy-Chairman of the South Western Railway; President of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Association of Architects and author of several books on churches and buildings in the south of England; member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
Costume: (William Portal) "...Court dress (period Marie Therese), plum coloured satin, elegantly embroidered in steel." (The Court Journal, 10 July 1897, p 1248b).
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Temple William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Temple, William (1881-1944), archbishop of Canterbury (1942-1944) and a leading figure in the ecumenical movement.
Temple, Sir William (1628-1699), English statesman and writer, born in London, and educated at the University of Cambridge.
Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron Grenville: Grenville, George Nugent Temple, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 104   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wyndham, Charles, Earl of Egremont 2nd, MP, b.
Zähringen, Louis William of Baden-Baden, Margrave of Baden-Baden, b.
Zähringen, William of Baden-Baden, Margrave of Baden-Baden, b.
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 Thoroughbred Foundation Sires - W
Lowther was an active supporter in the north for securing the English throne for William (III) and Mary, and was later rewarded by important posts, including positions as privy councillor and lord-lieutenant of Westmoreland, and was elevated to the peerage in 1696, created Baron of Lowther and Viscount Lonsdale.
This horse probably was owned by a descendant of Sir John Williams, who received a grant of a number of farms in Berkshire and Oxfordshire from Henry VIII, and was created Lord (Baron) Williams of Thame in 1554 by Henry's daughter Queen Mary.
The Duke's daughter married Sir William Wyndham in 1708 (also of Somerset), and it is possible the horse came from the Wyndham stud.
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 §3. "A Letter to Sir William Wyndham". VIII. Historical and Political Writers. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was not till this fatal phase of his career was at an end that he made his first elaborate contribution to political literature.
A few months, however, before he wrote the celebrated Letter to Sir William Wyndham—the disciple whom he had left at home behind him—he had composed his Reflections on Exile, published before the close of 1716, when his hopes of pardon and return had again receded.
This effort, founded on Seneca’s Consolatio ad Helviam, is stuffed with additional quotations from classical and one or two modern sources, and reads almost like a parody of the classicising essay of the period.
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 GENUKI: Slaters Commercial Directory, Bridgend, Glamorgan, 1880
It was built A.D. 1091 by Paganus de Turberville, to whom this lordship was assigned in the Norman division of the county.
It came afterwards into the possession of the Wyndhams, but by the marriage of the last heiress of that family, it passed into the Dunraven family.
During a heavy storm which took place some years ago, a prominent part of the ruins was blown down; and the late countess, in order to prevent any further demolition, gave orders for the strengthening and repairing of the most dangerous parts.
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 WYNDHAM, SIR WILLIAM, BART - Online Information article about WYNDHAM, SIR WILLIAM, BART   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
From Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham was descended Thomas Wyndham (1681—1745), lord chancellor of See also:
SALISBURY, WILLIAM LONGSWORD (or LONGESPEE), EARL OF (d.
Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham was also the ancestor of the Windhams of Felbrigg, who adopted this See also:
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 thePeerage.com - Exhibit
Pulteney, William, Earl of Bath 1684-1764, statesman, was descended from an old family said to have been of Leicestershire origin.
William Pulteney was born in London on 22 March 1684.
He was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford, where, on account of his scholarly attainments, he was chosen to deliver the congratulatory speech to Queen Anne on her visit in 1702.
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 WYNDHAM, SIR CHARLES (1837— ) - Online Information article about WYNDHAM, SIR CHARLES (1837— )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
WYNDHAM, SIR CHARLES (1837—) - Online Information article about WYNDHAM, SIR CHARLES (1837—)
In 1899 he opened his new theatre, called Wyndham's.
Moore (Mrs Albery), who became his partner in the proprietorship of the Criterion and Wyndham's theatres, and of his New Theatre, opened in 1903; and her delightful acting in See also:
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 Thomas Keith
If this assumption is correct, he was the fifth of nine children born to William and Jean Keith in Old Machar.
It is interesting to note, as further evindence of a link between the two people, that if these people are in fact one, that he named two of his daughters after his only two sisters (Euphemia and Elspet).
William is the third son of George III.
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 The National Archives | National Register of Archives | Browse the combined corporate and business indexes
Wykeham, William Of (1324-1404) Bishop of Winchester (1)
Wyndham, Alicia Maria (d 1794) nee Carpenter, widow of 2nd Earl of Egremont and wife of Count Von Bruhl (3)
Wyndham, Thomas (1681-1745) 1st Baron Wyndham of Finglass, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (2)
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 1800au - Wicipedia
Prif Weinidog William Pitt y Ieuengaf (y Deyrnas Unedig)
Prif Weinidog William Wyndham Grenville, 1af Arglwydd Grenville (y Deyrnas Unedig)
Prif Weinidog William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3ydd Dug Portland (y Deyrnas Unedig)
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 William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759-1834), Prime Minister
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759-1834), Prime Minister
Grenville, William Pitt's first cousin, served as Speaker of the House of Commons (1789) and Foreign Secretary (1791-1801).
The protégé and loyal follower of his cousin, Grenville was angered by Pitt's failure to oppose Addington and broke with him to join Fox and Grey in opposition.
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 Federation and Meteorology, Astronomical and Meteorological Workers in New South Wales, page 1535
John Wyndham, of Dalwood, Hunter River, kept a Rainfall Record, 1863 to 1885; it will be found in "Rain and River Results" for 1885.
William Stanley Jevons who hold a position in the Royal Mint at Sydney from 1854 to 1859, took the M.A. degree in 1862, and was afterwards Professor of Logic, and Mental and Moral Philosophy, etc., at Owen's College, Manchester.
His observations fill up a gap in the official meteorological record between the closing of the South Head Observations and the commencement of observations at Sydney Observatory.
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