Charles Wynne
Welsh politician and MP (1815-1874)
Charles Griffith Wynne (14 August 1815 – 3 March 1874), later known as Charles Wynne-Finch, was a Liberal Tory politician and a Member of Parliament for Caernarfon.
Early life
Wynne was born in London in 1815. He was the oldest son of Charles Griffith-Wynne, MP for Caernarvonshire (1830–1832) and his wife, Sarah Hildyard, the daughter of Rev. Henry Hildyard. His paternal grandfather was the MP Charles Finch. He received his education at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, from where he graduated with a BA in 1837. He also represented the university at cricket, playing two matches for the Oxford University cricket team.
Career
Wynne joined the Canterbury Association on 25 October 1849, and on 8 November of that year joined the management committee. Together with James FitzGerald, he applied pressure on John Hutt on 26 March 1850 to straighten out the affairs of the association, which caused Hutt to resign three days later. Wynne was member of the Caernarfon constituency from the 1859 general election to the 1865 general election.
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