[1] Inheriting a considerable fortune from his father in 1813,[2] including Buckinghamshire property originally owned by George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe of Hellfire Club fame, Wadham Wyndham acquired Beech Lodge near Great Marlow to concentrate on supporting the political ambitions and career of his friend and cousin Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, known from 1822 to 1839 by the courtesy title of Marquess of Chandos.
Of his surviving sons, Florance Wyndham (1836–1897), married Emily Wentworth Francklin, eldest daughter of Rev William Francklin and Penelope Atkins-Bowyer; she was the great-granddaughter of both Michael Francklin, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and the Hon Behning Wentworth, Colonial Secretary for Nova Scotia (himself a nephew of Benning Wentworth, Royal Governor of New Hampshire).
Florance was the inventor of Esprit des Oeufs, or Egg Spirit as he typically referred to it,[6] a commercial bottling of a kind of eggnog which achieved great popularity and a global distribution in the second half of the 19th century.
[7] Two of Wadham Wyndham's younger sons, William and Alexander, emigrated to Australia in the 1850s.
The two sons who did not survive in Chandos, to whom the 2nd Duke of Buckingham stood Godfather[8] born in 1828, and Wadham, who drowned in 1839 when a boat he was in was rowed too close to a weir on the River Thames at Marlow.