Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 9th Baronet

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 9th Baronet
Born	Robert William Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn 1862 Wales
Died	23 November 1951
Residence	St Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales
Nationality	Welsh
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford
Employer	British Army and Crown
Title	9th Baronet, of Bodelwyddan and of Gray's Inn
Children	Owen Watkin Williams-Wynn

Sir Robert William Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn, 9th Baronet KCB DSO, of Bodelwyddan in the County of Flint, and of Gray's Inn in the county of Middlesex (1862 – 23 November 1951), was a Welsh soldier and landowner.

He was Master of the Flint and Denbigh Foxhounds for fifty-eight years and also Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire from 1928 until his death in 1951.

Williams-Wynn was the son of Colonel Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn, a younger son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (1772–1840), and was educated at Wellington and Christ Church, Oxford.

One of the few members of the surviving ancient Welsh nobility, at the time of his death Williams-Wynn was the closest certain heir of the House of Aberffraw, the former ruling family of Gwynedd and Wales, who were deposed in the English Conquest of 1282. The Williams-Wynn baronets were an important family of Denbighshire landowners, whose 17th century ancestor had married into the Wynn family of Gwydir, the patrilineal descendants of Owain Gwynedd, Prince of Gwynedd (1137–1170), and in time they became the senior surviving branch of his family. On the death of Sir John Wynn in 1719, his heiress Jane Thelwall inherited both the Wynnstay estate and the Wynn claim to Aberffraw. Her husband Watkin Williams then added the Wynn family name to his own.

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