Sir_William_Wray,_1st_Baronet,_of_Glentworth

Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet, of Glentworth

Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet, of Glentworth

English Member of Parliament

Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet, of Glentworth, Lincolnshire (c. 1555 – 13 August 1617) was an English Member of Parliament.

He represented the constituency of Grimsby from 1584 to 1585, Lincolnshire in 1601 and Grimsby again from 1604 to November 1611.[1] He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1594 and was created a baronet on 25 November 1611.[2]

Wray was a patron of religion. The Estate of the Church, with the Discourse of Times (1602), translated and expanded by Simon Patrick from Jean de Hainault was dedicated to him.[3] John Smyth regarded Wray as the major supporter of "godly" religion in the county.[4]

Monuments to Wray and his second wife, Frances (died 1647), and to Susanna Drury, sister of Frances, exist at St Peter's church Ashby cum Fenby.[5][6]

Family

He was the son of Christopher Wray, by his wife Anne, daughter of Nicholas Girlington of Normanby, Yorkshire. He married, first, in 1580, Lucy, eldest daughter of Edward Montagu of Boughton and Elizabeth Harington, and grandson of the judge Sir Edward Montagu. They had eight sons and a daughter:[2][7]

Sir William married secondly, about 1600, Frances Drury, widow of Sir Nicholas Clifford of Bobbing, Kent, and daughter of Sir William Drury of Hawsted, Suffolk, and Elizabeth Stafford, by whom he was father of:

  • Sir Christopher Wray (1601–1646) of Ashby and Barlings.
  • George Wray (October 1603 – 1606)
  • Charles Wray (born March or April 1605), killed fighting in Spain.
  • Frances Wray (born October 1610), married on 25 March 1623 Sir Anthony Irby of Boston, Lincs., and had issue.

References

  1. [1]
    "Baronets". Leigh Rayment. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. [2]
    "Wray, Christopher" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. [3]
    Wright, Gillian. "Patrick, Simon". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21567. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. [4]
    Freeman, Thomas S. "Darcy, Isabel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74444. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. [5]
    Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 47; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  6. [6]
    Historic England. "Church of St Peter (1346925)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  7. [7]
    "Cracroft's Peerage". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  8. [8]
    Burke, Messrs. John & John Bernard, The Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Second edition, London, 1841, p. 584.
  9. [9]
    Burkes, 1841, p. 584.
  10. [10]
    Burkes, 1841, p. 581.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Wray, Christopher". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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