Charlotte Williams-Wynn (16 January 1807 – 26 April 1869) was an English letter-writer and diarist.[1]
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Life and career
editWilliams-Wynn was the eldest daughter of the politician Charles Williams-Wynn and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet. She was named after paternal grandmother, Charlotte Williams-Wynn (née Grenville). She spent her childhood at Dropmore Park, the seat of her granduncle, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville. Her father's illness forced him to travel to Wiesbaden, and Williams-Wynn accompanied him. On the way from Rotterdam to Biebrich, she met and befriended the diplomat and soldier Karl August Varnhagen von Ense. Williams-Wynn travelled extensively through what is now Italy, Switzerland and Germany. She was staying in Paris at the time of the French coup of 1851, and recorded the events of the period in detail.[2]
Williams-Wynn never married and lived at 43 Green Street, London. She formed a "close and lasting friendship" with the Prussian ambassador Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen, the writer Thomas Carlyle and the theologian Frederick Denison Maurice. In 1866, her declining health compelled her to search for a milder climate and move to Arcachon, where she died on 26 April 1869, five days after her sister Mary. She is buried in an Arcachon cemetery. Her surviving sister, Harriot Lindesay, published her memoires in 1877.[2]
Ancestry
edit| 16. Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8. Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17. Jane Thelwall | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4. Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9. Frances Shackerley | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Charles Williams-Wynn | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20. Richard Grenville | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10. George Grenville | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21. Hester Grenville, 1st Countess Temple | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5. Charlotte Grenville | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22. Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11. Elizabeth Wyndham | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23. Lady Catherine Seymour | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Charlotte Williams-Wynn | |||||||||||||||||||
| 24. Foster Cunliffe | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12. Sir Robert Cunliffe, 2nd Baronet | |||||||||||||||||||
| 25. Margaret Carter | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6. Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet | |||||||||||||||||||
| 26. Ichabod Wright | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13. Mary Wright | |||||||||||||||||||
| 27. Elizabeth Wildbore. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3. Mary Cunliffe | |||||||||||||||||||
| 28. Sir Francis Kinloch, 3rd Baronet | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14. Sir David Kinloch of Gilmerton, 5th Baronet | |||||||||||||||||||
| 29. Mary Rocheid | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7. Harriet Kinloch | |||||||||||||||||||
| 30. Sir Archibald Cockburn | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15. Harriet Cockburn | |||||||||||||||||||
| 31. Mary Campbell | |||||||||||||||||||
See also
edit- Charles Williams-Wynn (1822–1896), her brother
References
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- ^ a b Burnage, Sarah; Hallett, Mark; Turner, Laura (2011). William Etty: Art & Controversy. Philip Wilson Publishers. ISBN 9780905807256.
- ^ a b Prideaux Courtney, William (1900). Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900. Vol. 63.
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