Wyndham (name)
The Wyndham family are descended from Sir John Wyndham and his wife Margaret daughter of John Howard, Duke of Norfolk. Succeeding generations have played an important role in English politics, the law, the military and the arts.
Branches of the family are styled variously as Earl of Egremont, Earl of Thomond and Baron Ibracken, Baron Wyndham, Baron Leconfield and Baron Egremont, Wyndham baronets of Trent, Wyndham baronets of Pilsden Court, and Wyndham baronets of Orchard Wyndham:
The senior line of the Wyndham family is today represented by Max Wyndham, Baron Egremont who lives at the family seat of Petworth House in Sussex.
Notable Wyndhams include:
- Thomas Wyndham,, English soldier and sailor.
- Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, English defence organiser. Son of Florence Wadham, Lady Wyndham.
- Sir Hugh Wyndham,, English judge
- Sir Wadham Wyndham,, English judge
- Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet, of Orchard Wyndham, English politician, Member of Parliament for Somerset 1656–1658 and for Taunton 1660–1679.
- Thomas Wyndham, MP JP DL, of Witham Friary, Somerset, MP for Wells, Somerset.
- Sir Edward Wyndham, 2nd Baronet, English politician
- Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham, title in the Peerage of Ireland
- Charles William Wyndham, English Member of Parliament for Midhurst 1790–95, New Shoreham 1795–1802, and Sussex 1807–1812
- Sir Charles Wyndham, MP for Southampton and St Ives
- Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet,, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1713–1714
- Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont,, British peer
- Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond,, MP and Irish peer
- Henry Penruddocke Wyndham,, British politician and topographer
- Wadham Wyndham,, English colonel and bon vivant
- William Windham,, British Whig statesman
- George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, British peer
- Dr Thomas Wyndham, BCL DCL.
- Wadham Wyndham , MP for Salisbury 1818–1833, 1835–1843
- George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, British peer
- Henry Wyndham, MP for West Cumberland 1857–1860
- Wadham Wyndham , DL, JP, and political supporter
- William Wyndham, MP for South Wiltshire 1852–1859
- Charles Wyndham, English Member of Parliament for West Sussex 1841–1847
- Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield, British peer
- Percy Wyndham, British politician
- Sir Hugh Wyndham, British minister to Brazil
- Lt-Colonel Alfred Wyndham, British and Canadian army officer, pioneering rancher in Ontario and Alberta, Canada.
- George Wyndham, British political figure and writer
- Lt Col Guy Wyndham, soldier
- Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield, British peer
- Dr Sir Harold Wyndham, prominent Australian educator and public servant
- John Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield, British peer
- Francis Wyndham, British author and journalist, son of Lt Col Guy Wyndham
- Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont, British author
- Elizabeth Geraldine Wyndham, civil servant and socialite, adopted daughter of Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield. A polyglot, during the Second World War, she worked as a linguist in the British codebreaking department at Bletchley Park.
