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Sir Edward Williams, 5th Baronet (1728 – 12 July 1804) was a Welsh landowner.


Early life

Williams was born in 1728 in Gwernyfed,
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,
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. He was the second surviving son of David Williams (1684–1739) and Susannah Witherstone (b. 1693). His elder brother was Sir Henry Williams, 4th Baronet. His paternal grandfather was Sir David Williams, 3rd Baronet (a son of Sir Edward Williams of Gwernyfed, MP for
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, and grandson of
Sir Thomas Williams, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Williams, 1st Baronet (c. 1621 – 1712) was a Welsh medical doctor and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1675 to 1679. He was "Chymical Physician" to King Charles II. Early life Williams was the son of Thomas Williams, o ...
).


Career

In 1740, his grandfather died and his elder brother
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inherited the baronetcy but Henry died the following year and Edward became the 5th Baronet. The Williams baronetcy, of Elham in the County of Kent, had been created in the
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on 12 November 1674 for Thomas Williams, Physician to
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and
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. His son, Sir John Williams, 2nd Baronet was
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and represented
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in Parliament. As Sir John had no sons, his nephew, Edward's grandfather, inherited the baronetcy but the Elham estate passed to the 2nd Baronet's daughter and her husband, Thomas Symonds. Sir Edward was one of the principal promoters of the Brecknockshire Agricultural Society in 1755. He was appointed
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of the Brecknockshire Militia on 29 January 1760, during the
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.Capt B.E. Sargeaunt, ''The Royal Monmouthshire Militia'', London: RUSI, 1910/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, nd, ISBN 978-1-78331204-7, p. 71.


Personal life

Williams married Mary Ellis le Heup (1728–1768), a daughter of and Elizabeth ( Lombard) le Heup (daughter of Peter Lombard of
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) and
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, MP who was a brother-in-law of
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. Mary's sister, Elizabeth le Heup married John Lloyd. Together, they had one son who predeceased him and a daughter: * Edward Williams (d. ), who died unmarried. * Mary Williams (1752–1820), who in 1776 married Thomas Wood, son of Thomas Wood, MP for
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. After his first wife's death in 1768, he married Mary Riley. Sir Edward died in
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,
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. in 1804. On his death, the title became either extinct and Gwernyfed was inherited by his daughter, Mary.


Descendants

Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Thomas Wood (1777–1860), MP for
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from 1806 to 1847, who married Lady Caroline Stewart (daughter of
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and
Frances Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry Frances Stewart (née Pratt), 1st Marchioness of Londonderry (1751–1833), was mistress of a large landed and politically connected household in late Georgian Ireland. From her husband's mansion at Mount Stewart, County Down, in the 1790s her ci ...
).


References

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