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289 THE GWYNNES OF GI.ANBRAN. (Continued from page 288.) Catherine, the first wife of Sackville Gwynne, died on 28 Dec. 1787, aged 43, as appears from the inscription on a ring still preserved. Her third son David Gwynne was left a legacy of £1000 under the will of his sister in law Mrs. Arabella Gwynne, and died at Chester, leaving a son David Gwynne, who married Catherine daughter of Humphrey Jones of Garthmyl, co. Montgomery, and became a Police Inspector in Australia, and afterwards at Chester, and left a family. Her second son Captain John Gwynne of Gwern- vale House, a mansion situate half a mile from Crickhowell, which he purchased, was, like so many of his family, a soldier, and was a Peninsular hero. Born in 1779 or 1780, he received a commission as Cornet in the 14th (or the Duchess of York's own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons on 7 Nov. 1805, and was promoted to Lieutenant therein on 14 Jan. 1808, and afterwards Captain in the same gallant regiment. He fought in the action near Castragon on 18 July 1812, where he was slightly wounded, being however by no means the last of his family to shed his blood for his country. In his dis¬ patch concerning the famous victory of Salamanca four days later, Lord Wellington wrote :—" I ordered the Hon. Major Gen. Pakenham, who commanded the 3rd Division in the absence of Lieut. Gen. Picton on account of ill-health, to move forward with the 3rd Division, and Gen. D'Urban's cavalry, and two squadrons of the 14th Light Dragoons, under Lieut. Col. Hervey, in four columns, to turn the Enemy's