Originally intending to link up with the Duke of Wellington's army who had come from Spain before the French armistice intervened, they were garrisoned in Bordeaux where he was known among local people as "le gros commandant Whof Whof Whof". He also became Colonel commanding the Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1820 and was Welsh Militia aide-de-camp to King William IV from 1830 to 1837 and to Queen Victoria from 1837 until his death. He grew to be a portly man of seventeen and a half stone (), which sometimes caused chairs to collapse under him, and Lady Holland, in her Journal (volume I, page 238), commented: "Sir Watkin is a Grenville in person and manner all over him; his tongue is immensely too big for his mouth and his utterance is so impeded by it that what he attempts to articulate is generally unintelligible." From the winter of 1826–27, when he contracted erysipelas, he was affected by varying degrees of deafness at their worst in 1831. He died at Wynnstay Hall, aged 67, on 6 January 1840, and was buried at Ruabon, Denbighshire. His namesake son Watkin Williams-Wynn succeeded to the baronetcy and was also MP for Denbighshire. Family Williams-Wynn married Lady Henrietta Antonia Clive, eldest daughter of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, and the former Lady Henrietta Herbert, on 4 February 1817. His wife predeceased him on 22 December 1835, aged 49. Notes References External links 1772 births 1840 deaths Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Baronets in the Baronetage of England British MPs 1790–1796 British MPs 1796–1800 Lord-Lieutenants of Denbighshire Lord-Lieutenants of Merionethshire Mayors of places in Shropshire Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Welsh constituencies Conservative Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies People from Anglesey UK MPs 1801–1802 UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs 1806–1807 UK MPs 1807–1812 UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 Tory MPs (pre-1834) Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Beaumaris Denbighshire Hussars officers