Empire, and political resident in Jodhpur, Rajputana. (4) Emily Eliza, married in 1856 William Patrick Adam [q. v.], N.B.: she was given in 1882 the rank of a baronet's widow, and appointed a member od the order of the Crown of India; and (5) Florence Amelia Julia.
John William Shaw Wyllie (1835–1870), the eldest son, was born at Puna, Bombay Presidency, on 6 Oct. 1835. He came home in 1841, was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, and afterwards with his brother Frank at Cheltenham College. He won an open scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford (1854), resigning one previously gained at Lincoln. In 1855, having obtained a first class in moderations, he entered the Indian civil service, and was appointed on 25 Jan. 1858 third assistant political agent in Kathiawar. His services there, particularly in translating Colonel Lang's ‘Mulk Sherista,’ a Gujarati collection illustrating the common law of the 224 native states which then made up the province of Kathiawar, were favourably noticed.
After serving as an assistant commissioner in the Bara Banki and Lucknow districts, he became early in 1861 assistant secretary to Sir George Yule, then officiating as chief commissioner of the province, and in May 1862 was selected for the Calcutta secretariat. On his return to India after furlough (1864–5) he gained the confidence of the governor-general, Lord Lawrence, and at his request became the exponent of his foreign policy in an article published in the ‘Edinburgh Review’ in January 1867, and entitled ‘The Foreign Policy of Lord Lawrence,’ which powerfully affected public opinion. Wyllie made all the arrangements for the grand durbar at Agra in November 1866. Failing health compelled him to return home in 1867, and in the following year he was persuaded by his uncle, Sir William Hutt, to give up his Indian career for home politics. He successfully contested the city of Hereford in the liberal interest in 1868, but was unseated on petition. On 2 June 1869 he was made a C.S.I. for his Indian services. He died in Paris on 15 March 1870, and was temporarily interred at Montmartre, his remains being removed to Kensal Green cemetery when the Franco-German war was over. A memorial tablet, bearing his effigy in marble by Woolner, was erected in the school chapel at Cheltenham, and a scholarship of 70l. a year, to be held by Cheltenham boys proceeding to Trinity College, Oxford, was founded in his memory by friends and old schoolfellows. His early death was lamented in speeches in the House of Commons by Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff and Sir George Trevelyan.
Of his periodical essays the best known were ‘Masterly Inactivity’ (Fortnightly, December 1869), succeeded in March 1870 by ‘Mischievous Activity.’ He also contributed to the ‘Cornhill,’ and to the ‘Edinburgh’ and ‘Calcutta’ reviews, besides letters to the ‘Times’ and other journals on the affairs of Central Asia. Some of his ‘Essays on the External Policy of India’ were published in 1875 in a volume edited, with a short memoir, by Sir W. W. Hunter, and a portrait.
[Black and White, 6 June 1891 (with portrait of General Wyllie); India Office Records; Despatches; Times (London), 29 May 1891; Kilmarnock Standard, 30 May 1891; Irving's Book of Scotsmen; Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, vol. iii., Occasional Paper Series, ‘Afghanistan;’ Stocqueler's Memorials of Afghanistan; Kaye's History of the War in Afghanistan, 1838–42; Life and Opinions of Sir Charles James Napier; The Conquest of Sind; private information.]
WYNDHAM. [See also Windham.]
WYNDHAM or WINDHAM, Sir CHARLES, second Earl of Egremont (1710–1763), statesman, born on 19 Aug. 1710, and baptised at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields on the 30th, was son and heir of Sir William Wyndham, bart. [q. v.], of Orchard-Wyndham, Somerset, by his first wife, Katherine, daughter of Charles Seymour, sixth duke of Somerset. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 4 May 1725, from Westminster school. He was elected to the House of Commons for Bridgwater in 1735 in the tory interest. Having lost his seat there at the general election of 1741, he was returned through the Tufton influence for Appleby. But in the new parliament he changed his politics, and offended the patron of his borough (Lord Thanet) by supporting the proposal of the whig government for taking Hanoverian troops into British pay. He now left the party of the Prince of Wales, and attached himself to Lord Carteret [see Carteret, John, Earl Granville]. In February 1744 ‘the convert son of Sir William Wyndham’ seconded Lord Hartington's motion of support to the king against the impending invasion by the young pretender (H. Walpole to Sir H. Mann, 16 Feb. 1744); and after the rebellion was over even went so far as to call Lords Balmerino and Kilmarnock ‘malefactors,’ for which Lady Townshend quarrelled with him (to George Montague, 12 Aug. 1746).
Meanwhile he had in June 1740 succeeded to his father's baronetcy and Somerset estates,
