Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet

Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (born 1687, Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, Eng.—died June 17, 1740, Wells, Somerset) was an English Tory politician, a close associate of Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. A member of Parliament (1710–40), Wyndham was appointed secretary of war in 1712, chancellor of the Exchequer in 1713, and head of the Treasury in 1714, all at Bolingbroke’s behest. He was privy to Bolingbroke’s intrigues with James Edward, the Old Pretender, and became...