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Wynnstay Estate Records

  • GB 0210 WYNNSTAY
  • Fonds
  • 1183-1957

Estate and family records, 1183-1957, of the Wynn and Williams Wynn family of Wynnstay, Denbighshire. The archive includes a group of architectural drawings, c. 1770, by James Byres; a group of early charters and deeds, 1183-1676, from the Cistercian Abbey of Strata Marcella (Ystrad Marchell) near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, and elsewhere; antiquarian, legal and literary manuscripts; account rolls of Sir Richard Wynn, Treasurer to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1627-1649; manorial records relating to manors and boroughs in Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, 1364-1895 (1934-40 and 1952 deposits); parliamentary election papers for Anglesey, Cardigan (county and borough), Denbighshire, Flintshire and Montgomeryshire, 1621-1883; family and estate correspondence, including part of that of Sir William Williams (1634-1700), Speaker of the House of Commons; rentals and account books, 1300-1925 (preserved in an almost unbroken series from the time of Sir William Williams); over 5000 title deeds and documents, [pre-1290]-[c. 1910], mainly relating to properties in the six North Wales counties and Shropshire, including records for Glascoed and Llanforda, Llwydiarth, Llangedwyn and Glanllyn, Plas-y-Ward, Rhiwgoch and Mathafarn, estates acquired either by marriage or purchase in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; together with papers relating to administration of the estates, 1573-1946; family papers, 1499-1913, county and central government administration papers, 1608-1880; two discrete groups of Much Wenlock estate records, 1534-1860, and Nantcriba estate records, 1381-1680; and various maps. There is an additional group of papers relating to the Wynnstay estate which came from the office of Longueville Gittins solicitors, Oswestry, dated 1582-1957.

Williams Wynn family, of Wynnstay

Welsh Liberal Party Papers,

  • GB 0210 WELLIBPAR
  • Fonds
  • 1961-1988 (accumulated 1966-1988) /

Records of the Welsh Liberal Party, 1966-1988, including Executive Committee and General Council minutes, 1967-1987; Annual General Meeting papers and correspondence, 1982-1987; correspondence and papers relating to local government reform and electoral reform, transport, economic policy and nationalisation, Welsh affairs, devolution, and Welsh Liberal Party structure and finance, 1963-1987; papers relating to annual conferences, 1968-1987; papers relating to parliamentary and other elections, 1969-1989; correspondence and papers relating to individual parliamentary constituencies, 1970-1980; Local Government and Parliamentary Boundary Commission submissions, 1981-1983; Standing Committee and Policy Directorate papers, 1975-1982; press releases, 1980-1988; party publications, 1975-1981; records of county Liberal Associations, 1973-1988; and records of Caernarfon Division Liberal Association, 1961-1975.

Three additional files comprising minutes of meetings of the Welsh Liberal Party, 1981-2 and 1987. This group remains uncatalogued.

Welsh Liberal Party.

Ivor T. Rees Political Papers,

  • GB 0210 IVTRES
  • Fonds
  • 1885-2019

Papers of the Rev. Ivor T. Rees, comprising mainly printed political material, 1928-1997, including election literature and candidates' addresses for British elections from Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland and election literature, newsletters and press cuttings relating to minority parties such as the Socialist Party of Great Britain, 1951-1970; National Democratic Party/National Front/British National Party, [c. 1970's]-[1990's], and papers relating to Lt Commander W. G. Boaks, who stood as an independent candidate in many elections between 1951 and 1982, [c. 1970s-1980s]; articles and obituaries relating to politicians and other prominent individuals, [c. 1970s-1990s]; index cards containing details of British Parliamentary candidates who stood in British Parliamentary elections, 1910-1983; together with miscellaneous papers, 1948-1985; newspaper cuttings, 1931-1999 relating to Welsh politics, including the first election for the National Assembly for Wales and electoral candidates in Wales; and election leaflets mostly for the county council elections, 6 May 1999, in Swansea, Sketty, Anglesey, Vale of Glamorgan and Rhonda Cynon Taf.
Additional donations also include papers, 1999-2017, consisting mainly of printed material from web pages, press cuttings, and campaign material and election addresses relating to prominent Welsh politicians both in the Welsh Assembly and UK Parliament; papers, 1885-2018, relating to elections held in Wales and Welsh constituencies from the 19th to the 21st centuries and politicians who have stood as candidates, including in UK Parliamentary elections, Welsh Assembly elections, and European Parliament Elections; a large number of candidates' and politicians' biographies (1885-2018), and questionnaires for candidates standing in various 20th- and 21st- century elections (1997-2017; 2019); and a large number of papers including press cuttings and printed material from web pages relating to UK Parliamentary, Welsh Assembly, and European Parliament elections (1892-2018), including campaign material and election addresses relating to candidates standing in Welsh constituencies; and some typescript copies of Ivor T. Rees' works.

Rees, Ivor Thomas.

Papurau J. E. Daniel,

  • NLW MS 23870E.
  • file
  • 1905, 1939-1945.

Papurau, 1905-1945, yng Nghymraeg a Saesneg, fu'n eiddo i'r Athro John Edward Daniel, yn ymwneud â'i weithgareddau gwleidyddol gyda Plaid Cymru. = Papers, 1905-1945, in Welsh and English, of Professor John Edward Daniel, relating mostly to his political activities with Plaid Cymru.
Maent yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth Compton Mackenzie, 8 Hydref 1939 (f. 1), Gwynfor Evans, 25 Tachwedd 1945 (f. 14), a William George, 20 Mehefin 1945 (f. 5), ynghyd â nodiadau gan George ar gyfer araith yn cefnogi Daniel fel ymgeisydd dros Blaid Cymru ym Mwrdeisdrefi Caernarfon yn etholiad 1945 (ff. 6-13). Hefyd yn y casgliad ceir papur enwebu Saunders Lewis yn is-etholiad Prifysgol Cymru, 1943 (f. 4); teipysgrif 'Memorandwm i Bwyllgor Heddwch y Blaid Genedlaethol' gan D. Gwenallt Jones, [c. 1939] (ff. 15-32, diwedd ar goll); a dau eitem o ohebiaeth deuluol, 1905 a [d.d.] (ff. 33-34). = They include letters from Compton Mackenzie, 8 October 1939 (f. 1), Gwynfor Evans, 25 November 1945 (f. 14), and William George, 20 June 1945 (f. 5), together with autograph notes for a speech by the latter in support of Daniel's candidacy for Plaid Cymru in Carnarvon Boroughs in the 1945 General Election (ff. 6-13). Also in the collection are nomination paper of Saunders Lewis in the University of Wales by-election, 1943 (f. 4); a typescript 'Memorandwm i Bwyllgor Heddwch y Blaid Genedlaethol' by D. Gwenallt Jones, [c. 1939] (ff. 15-32, end lacking); and two items of family correspondence, 1905 and [n.d.] (ff. 33-34).