The Griffies-Williams Baronetcy, of Llwyny Wormwood in the County of Carmarthen, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created on 22 May 1815 for George Griffies-Williams. Born George Griffies, he assumed by Royal sign manual the additional surname of Williams in 1785. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1877.
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The family seat was Llwynywermod, near Myddfai, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire.
Griffies-Williams baronets, of Llwyny Wormwood (1815)
edit- Sir George Griffies-Williams, 1st Baronet (c. 1759–1843)[2]
- Sir Erasmus Henry Griffies-Williams, 2nd Baronet (1794–1870)[2][3]
- Sir Watkin Lewes Griffies-Williams, 3rd Baronet (c. 1800–1877)[3][4]
References
edit- ^ "No. 16969". The London Gazette. 27 December 1814. p. 2535.
- ^ a b Burke, John Bernard (1852). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Colburn. p. 1048.
- ^ a b "Williams (or Griffies-Williams), Erasmus Henry Griffies (WLMS814EH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ The Annual Register. Rivingtons. 1878. p. 147.