| Williams-Wynn | Robert William Herbert Watkin | | Captain | WILLIAMS-WYNN, ROBERT WILLIAM HERBERT WATKIN, Captain, was born 3 June 1862, youngest son of Colonel Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn, Royal Fusiliers, MP, and of Mrs Williams-Wynn, of Cefn, St Asaph. He was educated at Wellington, and Christ Church, Oxford, and joined the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry in 1886. He served in the South African War, 1900-1, with the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, and on Lord Chesham's Staff, taking part in operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, November 1900, including action at Rhenoster Kop; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria; operations in Orange River Colony; operations in Cape Colony, south of Orange River; operations in the Transvaal 30 November 1900 to June 1901. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 September 1901]; received the Queen's Medal with four clasps, and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 26 June 1902]: “Robert William Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn, Captain, Imperial Yeomanry (Major in Home Yeomanry). In recognition of services during the operations iu South Africa”. He was invested by the King 24 October 1902. He was given the Brevet, of Colonel, and commanded the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, 1905-17; went out in command of the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry to Egypt in March 1916; held District Commands in Egypt of Southern Section (over 200,000 square miles), and Sollum Section, 1917-19 (Despatches three times); was promoted Colonel. Colonel Williams-Wynn contested (C) Montgomeryshire, 1894, 1895 and 1900. He married, in 1904, Elizabeth Ida, second daughter of George W Lowther, of Swillington, and they had two sons: Owen Watkin, born 30 November 1904 and Edward Watkin, born 20 November 1908, and two daughters: Joyce and Margaret.
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