William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet
Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet ( 1688 - June 17, 1740 ) was an English nobleman and politician .
Life
The Wyndhams were originally from Norfolk . They acquired Orchard Wyndham in Somerset in the 16th century . William Wyndham was the only son of Sir Edward Wyndham, 2nd Baronet . After the death of his father in 1695 he inherited the property and the title of Baronet , of Orchard in the County Somerset, created in 1661 in the Baronetage of England . He was educated at Eton College from 1696 and studied at Christ Church College in Oxford from 1704 . From 1704 to 1706 he went on a grand tour to the Netherlands, France and Italy. On July 21, 1708 he married Catherine Seymour , the daughter of Charles Seymour and his wife Elizabeth .
From 1710 until his death he was a Member of the House of Commons for the Somerset constituency for the Tories . In Parliament he was quickly noticed as a young talent, in 1711 Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke noticed him, so that in 1711 he received the office of Master of the Buckhounds . On June 28, 1712, Wyndham became Secretary at War , and his responsibility was now to disband the British Army at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession . In August 1713 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer and in November of that year a member of the Privy Council . He was involved in the expulsion of Richard Steele , who advocated the Hanoverian succession in a pamphlet, from the House of Commons in March 1713. When in July 1714 the government rivalries between his mentor Bolingbroke and Robert Harley openly erupted, Wyndham clearly sided with Bolingbroke. On July 27, Harley resigned from his ministerial office. Bolingbroke and Wyndham tried to prevent the Hanoverian succession to the throne, but Queen Anne died on August 1st . Wyndham was one of the signatories of the proclamation that made George I king, but he lost his offices as the leading Tory in the new government. The Jacobites had planned a rebellion for the summer of 1715, and Wyndham was one of the leaders in south-west England. However, when the rebellion was exposed before it broke out, he fled Orchard Wyndham, but was quickly captured and imprisoned in the Tower . He was only released on bail after a few months through the intercession of his father-in-law.
Under George I the Whigs formed the government, Wyndham became leader of the Tory opposition in the House of Commons. He kept in touch all his life with the exiled Bolingbroke and with James Francis Edward Stuart , the Old Pretender , but he was no longer able to influence the government. He died in Wells on June 17, 1740.
Family and offspring
From his marriage to Catherine Seymour had two sons,
and three daughters. His daughter Elizabeth married the future Prime Minister George Grenville , she was the mother of Prime Minister William Wyndham Grenville .
literature
- James Ramsay MacDonald: Wyndham, William . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 63: Wordsworth - Zuylestein. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1900, pp. 252 - 253 (English).
- Stephen W. Baskerville: Wyndham, Sir William, third baronet (c.1688-1740). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
- Wyndham, Sir William . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 28 : Vetch - Zymotic Diseases . London 1911, p. 872 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- William Wyndham . History of Parliament Online
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wyndham, William, 3rd Baronet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British statesman and nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1688 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1740 |
| Place of death | Wells |