William_Glynne_(MP)
William Glynne (MP)
Member of the Parliament of England
Sir William Glynne (1566 – 1620) of Llanfwrog, Anglesey and Glynllifon, Caernarvonshire was a Welsh lawyer who was elected to the House of Commons for Anglesey in 1593.[1]
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He was the eldest son of Thomas Glynne of Glynllifon, whom he succeeded in 1608, and was educated in England at University College, Oxford (1578) before studying law at Furnival's Inn and Lincoln's Inn (1586).
He sat as MP for Anglesey in 1593. He served in various legal capacities before inheriting his father's Glynllifon estate and was pricked High Sheriff of Anglesey for 1597–97 and again for 1618–19. He was knighted in 1606.