Henry Penruddocke WyndhamAlthough by profession a politician, Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819) was by inclination a topographer and antiquarian. Educated at Eton and Wadham College, Oxford, he was elected a freeman of Salisbury in 1761, served as Mayor in 1770-1, and beame High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1772. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1777) and the Royal Society (1783). In 1795, he entered Parliament as MP for Wiltshire, nominally a Whig, though he rarely attended. Wyndham is best remembered for his literary works, including A Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales (1775), a history of Wiltshire drawn from Domesday (1788), and The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington (1784), which remains an important source on 18th-century politics. Read More Read Less