Wray, Cecil, 1734-1805

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Wray, Cecil, 1734-1805

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1734-1805

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WRAY, SIR CECIL, BART., eldest son of Sir John Wray, Bart., and Frances, dau. of Fairfax Norcliffe, Langton, Yorks.; b. 3 Sep 1734; adm. Apr 1745 (Smalwell's); left 1749; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 1749, matr. 1749; succ. as 13th baronet 26 Jan 1752; Cornet, 1st Dragoons 26 Dec 1755 – 20 Dec 1757; of Fillingham, Lincs.; MP East Retford 1768-80, Westminster 12 Jun 1782-4; a strenuous opponent of the American War; denounced the Fox-North coalition, and opposed Fox’s East India Bill; unsuccessfully contested Westminster against Hood and Fox at the general election of 1784; satirised in The Rolliad and caricatured by Rowlandson and Gillray; m. Esther, dau. of James Summers, Fillingham, Lincs.; d. 10 Jan 1805. DNB.

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Wray, John, 1736-1748 (1736-1748)

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GB-2014-WSA-18643

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Wray, John, 1736-1748

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Wray, Cecil, 1734-1805

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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020

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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.

The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.

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