UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: c 1648

Died: 14 June 1734

Member of Privy Council of Ireland - 1701

son of Edward Gwyn

son of Eleanor Popham

husband of Margaret Prideaux

Christ Church, Oxford (- June 1666)

Middle Temple (1667 -)

Commissioner of Revenue (Ireland)	1676	1681
Clerk of Privy Council	1679	1685
Under Secretary of State	1680	1683
Joint Secretary of the Treasury	1685	1687
Groom of the Bedchamber	1685	1687
Under Secretary of State	1688	1689
Commissioner of Accounts	1696	1697
Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland	1701	1701
Lord of Trade	1711	1713
Secretary at War	1713	September 1714

1 February 1673	Chippenham	Tory	77	77.78
6 February 1673 Petition - election declared void.
11 February 1673	Chippenham	Tory	75	76.53
7 February 1679	Chippenham	Tory
18 August 1679	Chippenham	Tory
24 March 1685	Cardiff Boroughs	Tory	Unopposed
16 November 1695	Callington	Tory