Rowland Gwynne ( 1658 - 1726 )

Birth: 01 January 1658 Death: King's Bench prison (24 January 1726) Education: St John's College, Oxford (matriculated 1674); Gray's Inn (admitted 1679) Career: Commissioner for Assessment for Monmouthshire and Radnorshire (1677-1680), for Breconshire (1679-1680), and for Monmouthshire, Breconshire, Brecon, Glamorgan and Radnorshire (1689-1690); in exile in Holland (1683-1688); Sheriff of Breconshire (1688); MP for Radnorshire (1678-1690); MP for Breconshire (1690-1695, 1698-1702); MP for Bere Alston (1695-1698); suspected of involvement in the Rye House plot, he went into exile in Holland (1683); Steward of the Crown Manors of Radnorshire (1689-1691); Custos Rotulorum for Radnorshire (1689-1702); Treasurer of the Chamber (1689-1692); Deputy-Lieutenant of Breconshire, Glamorgan and Radnorshire (1689-1710); wasted his own and his wife's fortunes 'by eating and rioting' and, harassed by his creditors, fled to Hanover; lived in Hamburg (c1706-1714); imprisoned for debt in the King's Bench Prison Honours: Kt 1680 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 23/11/1681 Proposers: Abraham Hill.