Robert Wynn (MP)

[2] Robert fought and was injured at the Siege of Boulogne in 1544, took part in the King's Scottish campaigns and traveled extensively across Europe.

[3] He invested in land across North Wales and married his first wife, Dorothy Griffith, a member of the local gentry, in 1570.

[4] Robert now needed a suitable family house and chose Conwy, a prosperous town that was known in the 16th century for its gentile society.

[6] By the 1570s Robert began to rise in local society, becoming a justice of the peace, the MP for Caernarvonshire in 1589 and the county sheriff in 1590–91.

[10] He left a complex will intended to provide support for his wife and enable his daughters and youngest son to be successfully married; his instruction envisaged this being achieved by saving up money from his estates over the coming years, under the direction of the executor, Sir Roger Mostyn.