Rowland Gwynne
Rowland Gwynne
Gwynne was born in about 1658, the eldest son of George Gwynne of Llanelwedd, by his wife Sybill, daughter of Roderick Gwynne, also of Llanelwedd. He succeeded to his father's estates in about 1673: at the time he was a very rich young man, but was later to waste his inheritance. He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford in 1674 aged 15, and was a law student at Gray's Inn in 1679.[1]
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He married Mary, daughter of William Bassett of Broviscan,
He was heavily in debt on leaving parliament, having wasted his own inheritance and his wife's fortune: "he spent it all in a few years, eating and rioting". He died in Southwark, south London, on 24 January 1726, aged 66, "under the rules of the King's Bench": in other words, he was technically in prison for debt, but the rules of the King's Bench Prison allowed him a certain amount of liberty in practice.[1]
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