Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet
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Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet (May 1700 – 5 August 1756), of Leeswood Hall, Flintshire, was a Welsh land owner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1742.
Wynne was the eldest son of John Wynne of Leeswood and his first wife Jane Jones, daughter of Humphrey Jones of Halkyn, Flintshire.[1] His mother died in 1703 and his father, who was a poor Welsh country gentleman, remarried Catherine Jones, one of the servants. Wynne succeeded to the Halkyn estate of his mother which then brought about £30 a year. He married Margaret Lloyd, daughter of Evan Lloyd of Tyddyn, Flintshire, on 26 April 1720 against the objection of his father that she had neither fortune nor quality equal to his son. Valuable lead deposits were discovered on the Halkyn estate and after prolonged litigation with his father, Wynne secured control of the estate. His father published a pamphlet in about 1731 entitled “The sufferings of John Wynne of Leeswood, Esq’ accusing his son and father in law of defrauding him of the £22,000 a year yield of the mine.[1] Wynne re-built and re-equipped the family house at Leeswood with no regard to the expense. He was High Sheriff of Flintshire from 1722 to 1724.[2]
