Sir William Wyndham

(1688 c.-1740)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wyndham, William, Sir, 1687-1740 DNB: Wyndham, Sir William, third baronet (c.1688–1740), politician LBT ID: WiWindh1740 VIAF ID: 2345992 LOC ID: nr93043329	B/BAP: 1688 DIED: 1740-06-17
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Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, he was an ally of Bolingbroke and leader of the Tory opposition in Parliament.
REFERENCES TO Sir William Wyndham: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 19 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 17 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III