The Wyndham family are descended from Sir John Wyndham (1443–1503) and his wife Margaret (1443–1524) daughter of John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, a direct descendant of Edward I. Succeeding generations have played an important role in English politics, the law, the military and the arts.
Branches of the family are styled variously as Earl of Egremont, Earl of Thomond and Baron Ibracken, Baron Wyndham, Baron Leconfield and Baron Egremont, Wyndham baronets of Trent, Wyndham baronets of Pilsden Court, and Wyndham baronets of Orchard Wyndham:
The senior line of the Wyndham family is today represented by Max Wyndham, Baron Egremont who lives at the family seat of Petworth House in Sussex.
Notable Wyndhams include:
Thomas Wyndham (navigator), (1508–1554), English soldier and sailor.
Sir John Wyndham (1558-1645) of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, English defence organiser
Sir Hugh Wyndham, (1602–1684), English judge
Sir Wadham Wyndham (judge), (1609–1668), English judge
Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet, of Orchard Wyndham (c. 1632–1683), English politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Somerset 1656–1658 and for Taunton 1660–1679.
Sir Edward Wyndham, 2nd Baronet (c. 1667–1695), English politician
Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham, (1681–1745) title in the Peerage of Ireland
Charles William Wyndham (1760–1828), English Member of Parliament (MP) for Midhurst 1790–95, New Shoreham 1795–1802, and Sussex 1807–1812
Sir Charles Wyndham (1638–1706), MP for Southampton (1679–1689 and 1689–1698) and St Ives (1698–1701)
Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, (1687–1740), English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1713–1714
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, (1710–1763), British peer
Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond, (c. 1713–1774), MP and Irish peer
Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, (1736–1819), British politician and topographer
Wadham Wyndham (army officer), (1737–1812), English colonel and bon vivant
William Windham, (1750–1810), British Whig statesman
George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751–1837), British peer
Wadham Wyndham (parliamentarian) (1773–1843), MP for Salisbury 1818–1833, 1835–1843
George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield (1787–1869), British peer
Henry Wyndham (1790–1860), MP for West Cumberland 1857–1860 [1]
Wadham Wyndham (political supporter) (1793–1849), DL, JP, and political supporter
William Wyndham (1796-1862), MP for South Wiltshire 1852–1859
Charles Wyndham (1796-1866), English Member of Parliament for West Sussex 1841–1847
Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield (1830–1901), British peer
Percy Wyndham (1835–1911), British politician
Sir Hugh Wyndham (1836–1916), British minister to Brazil
George Wyndham (1863–1913), British political figure and writer
Lt Col Guy Wyndham (1865–1941), soldier
Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield (1872–1952), British peer
Dr Sir Harold Wyndham (1903–1988), prominent Australian educator and public servant
John Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield (1920–1972), British peer
Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont (born 1948), British author
Elizabeth Geraldine Wyndham (15 Dec 1922 – 13 May 2008), civil servant and socialite, adopted daughter of Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield. A polyglot, during the Second World War, she worked as a linguist in the British codebreaking department at Bletchley Park.
