English: Identifier: annalsantiquitie01nich

Title: Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ... with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families Year: 1872 (1870s) Authors: Nicholas, Thomas, 1820-1879 Subjects: Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, Reader Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Text Appearing Before Image: Wynnstay—Front View: the Seat of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart.{from a photograph by Mr. jf. Ozvs//).

Text Appearing After Image: Wynnstay—Side View. The new mansion, replete with all the appointments of a sumptuous residence, is a costlyeditice in the Renaissance style, combining in its external outline some of the features of a 368 DENBIGHSHIRE. French chateau, and in its spacious stateliness is in keeping with the history and station ofthe noble family whose name has been so long associated with Wynnstay. (See further,Williams Wymi of Wynnstay.) To the south of Wynnstay is situated Brynkinallt, the seat of Lord Arthur Hill Trevor,who succeeded to it on the death of the late Viscount Dungannon when he assumed thename of Trevor. Brynkinallt was the home of the ancient family of Trevor, among whom thesomewhat eccentric and notorious Sir John Trevor, Master of the JRoUs, Keeper of the Seal,and Speaker of the Commons under Charles II. and William III., is the best known, thoughnot of most respected memory. (See Traor of Brynkinallt) At this place, Wellington,when young, often spent his vacations, his mother, the

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