Background
Wynne was born in 1780, the son of the Member of Parliament Charles Finch.
Wynne was born in 1780, the son of the Member of Parliament Charles Finch.
Westminster School; Christ Church.
And Jane Wynne who had married one another in 1778. He was later a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford between 1800 and 1812. He took the names Griffith and Wynne by royal licence on 26 June 1804, almost certainly in order to inherit from his mother’s family the Wynne family estates surrounding Voelas House (subsequently demolished) in Denbighshire.
He was politically active in the Caernarvonshire constituency from about 1825, and was elected unopposed as the constituency Member of Parliament in 1830 when the king’s death triggered a general election.
He was considered a partisan of the Tory government, but was absent from the House of Commons when the government fell a few months later, in November 1830, over the issue of parliamentary reform. There is no record of his having made a speech in the House of Commons.
His voting record in the struggle that marked the run up to the Reform Acting 1832 was opposed to the reform agenda of the Whig government of Lord Grey. However, for much of the time he was absent due to illness, and he did not stand for election in the 1832 election, nor subsequently.
Wynne married Sarah Hildyard in 1812.
Their children included Charles Griffiths Wynne-Finch (1815–1874) and Charlotte Griffith-Wynne, better remembered in New Zealand as Charlotte Godley (1821–1907), the wife of John Robert Godley. Charles Wynn Griffith-Wynne died on 22 March 1865.
9th United Kingdom Parliament. 10th United Kingdom Parliament]
The Wynne family had been producing members of parliament for Caernarvonshire since at least as far back as the mid-seventeenth century.
