Charlotte had six surving children:

• Watkin (26 October 1772 - 6 January 1840)
• Fanny (1773 - 1857)
• Charles (1775-1850)
• Henrietta Elizabeth (1780 - 18 August 1852)
• Charlotte (? - ?)
• Henry (16 March 1783 - 28 March 1856)

All text from Leighton.

Watkins

The eldest, attained his majority in 1793. Domestic affairs in England and foreign affairs on the Continent were in a ferment of unrest during the last decade of the eighteenth century and well on into the nineteenth. Sir Watkin as a young county gentleman did not shirk the responsibility of his position; he; entered into, and took his part in, the public life of the principality. He raised the regiment of the Ancient British Light Dragoons, which was prepared for service in France and saw service both there and in Ireland. He went into Parliament as member for Denbighshire, and he exercised very considerable local influence. He entered less into politics than either of his brothers, for his interests did not lie in statecraft, in spite of the great positions held by his mother’ s relations in political circles.

In the immediate family at Wynnstay his position as head is always recognised; he stands rather aloof from the chaff of the brothers and sisters, especially of the sisters, even Fanny, nearest him in age, treats him with deference. With Charles, his next brother, he was on terms of greater intimacy, and in later years he corresponded regularly with Henry; but the rights of “primogeniture” are characteristically marked. Whenever Lady Williams Wynn in her letters to any of her children writes of “your Brother,” she always refers to Sir Watkin.

Sir Watkin married in 1817 Lady Harriet Clive, eldest daughter of the first Earl of Powis. [sic] He had three children, Watkin, Herbert, and Harriet, afterwards Lady Williams.

Fanny

Charlotte’s eldest daughter, was born in 1773. She never married. She was a woman with much social talent and of great enterprise. She was exceedingly fond of travelling, and in 1818 she went, accompanied by her courier and her maid, through France and Italy to her sister Charlotte (Mrs. Shipley), who was then living in Majorca. Her journeys gave the opportunity to her mother to keep her informed of all that was passing at home, and the series of Letters from Lady Williams Wynn between the years 1818 and 1827, now in the National Library at Aberystwyth, are full of interest.

Fanny’s own accounts of places in France, Germany, Italy, and later of Copenhagen are preserved in her diaries and notebooks (also in the National Library), extracts from which were published in A Lady of Quality, edited by Mr. Abraham Hayward after her death. The “Prefatory Notice” in that volume gives an account of her as an old lady of nearly 84, “distinguished by her literary tastes and acquirements, as well as highly esteemed for the uprightness of her character, the excellence of her understanding and the kindness of her heart.” The book was published in 1864, seven years after her death.

Charles

Born in 1775, entered the legal profession and was called to the Bar, but his activities as a barrister were short-lived. The leading position of his mother’s family in public affairs soon turned his attention to other channels, and he commenced along Parliamentary career in 1796 as member for the pocket borough of Old Sarum. In 1799 he was returned as representative for his own county of Montgomery, which seat he held continuously for fifty years,

He was a candidate for the Speaker’s chair in 1817, on which occasion “Uncle Tom” recorded on his behalf the last vote he ever gave in the Rouse of Commons. Charles failed in the election, on account, it is said, of a physical weakness of voice, otherwise his knowledge of the privileges and procedure of Parliament, together with his good temper and courtesy, made him a very desirable candidate; but, according to a story current at the time, the Commons declared they dared not elect Mr. Charles Williams Wynn their Speaker, lest “the dignity of their House be lowered by reference to Mr. Squeaker.”

The list of Charles’s appointments is not so formidable as those of his uncles. He was Under-Secretary to the Home Office for one year, President of the Board of Control for five years, and in Lord Grey’s Ministry, 1880, he was Secretary at War, which office he held for a few months only, as he could not bring himself to give whole-hearted support to so democratic a measure as the first Reform Bill. His last appointment, Chancellor to the Duchy of Lancaster, was for one year only, 1885, after which he accepted no other office. It is said that he was three times offered the Governor-Generalship of India and three times he refused. He married in 1806 Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Foster Cunliffe, third baronet, of Acton Park, Wrexham. He had seven children; one son and one daughter died young. He died in 1850 at the age of 75.

Charlotte

The fourth surviving child of Charlotte, Lady Williams Wynn, married in 1806 Colonel William Shipley, son of the Dean of St. Asaph, and heir through his mother[1] to the Bodrhyddan estates. The marriage was not a happy one; owing to serious financial difficulties, Colonel Shipley was obliged to spend the latter part of his life out of England. Majorca was chosen as a haven not likely to be visited by ubiquitous creditors, and there he died in 1820. There were two children of ‘this marriage, William Conwy Shipley, who assumed the surname of Conwy, and died without issue in 1869, having succeeded to the Bodrhyddan property after the death of his grandfather Dean Shipley, and Charlotte, who in 1835 married the Hon. Richard Rowley. She succeeded to the property on her brother’s death, and died two years afterwards, when it passed to her only son, who assumed the additional name of Conwy.

Henrietta

The youngest daughter, born in 1780, married Thomas Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, in 1810.He became first Baron Delamere in 1821. She had four sons and one daughter. She was a very clever artist in pen-and-ink and pencil sketches, and as a letter-writer she rivals her mother in her graphic and terse descriptions, her sense of humour, and her shrewd judgments.

Henry

The last member of the family, the youngest, was seven years old at the time of his father’s death. The other two sons, of 17 and 15, were within sight of manhood; Henry was little more than a baby. With him, his mother’s influence was paramount, and her affection and solicitude towards him when he first goes to a tutor at Chiswick, and afterwards to Harrow, are full of tenderness; but she is critical, and her standard for conduct and school work is high, she expects much, and she is not satisfied with indifferent results. There are moments when, as a little boy of eleven years old, she is in despair over his spelling and his careless handwriting.

Sometimes she writes to him in French and requires an answer in the same language, so that she may judge for herself what progress he is making.

After the schooldays are over, instead of going to the University, Henry serves his apprenticeship in diplomacy to "Uncle Tom.” [See letters]

Henry Watkins Williams Wynne by John Jackson

[1] Penelope, dau. and co-h. of Ellis Yonge, of Bryn Yorcin, and his wife Penelope, eld. dau. and co-h. of James Russell Stapleton whose wife Penelope was dau, and co-h. of Sir John Conwy of Bodrhyddan.