Wrey baronets
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester by his wife Eleanor de Bohun elder daughter and coheiress of Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (1341–1373), Earl of Essex and Northampton. Over-all is the Red Hand of Ulster. Above the shield in the centre is a Bourchier knot or. Above to the dexter is the crest of Wrey: A cubit arm embowed holding a pole-axe argent helved gules, on the sinister side is the crest of Bourchier: A man's head in profile proper ducally crowned or with a pointed cap gules[3]
On a scroll underneath the motto of Bourchier: Le Bon Temps Viendra ("The right time will come")
The Wrey Baronetcy, of Trebitch (modern: Trebeigh Manor,
House of Commons. The fifth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Camelford while the sixth Baronet represented Barnstaple
.
Trebeigh Manor
Trebeigh, St Ive, in Cornwall was a manor listed in Domesday Book as held by the Earl of Mortain, the largest landholder in that county. He is said to have taken it away wrongfully from the church. It was given in 1150 by King Stephen to the
Dissolution of the Monasteries
the manor of Trebeigh was granted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1573 to Henry Wilbye
and George Blyke, from whom it was acquired by John Wrey,[6] who made it his family's chief seat until his descendants inherited Tawstock in Devon from the Bourchiers in 1654.[7]
Wrey baronets, of Trebitch (1628)
- Sir William Wrey, 1st Baronet (died 1636)
- Sir William Wrey, 2nd Baronet (c. 1600–1645)
- Sir Chichester Wrey, 3rd Baronet(1628–1668)
- Sir Bourchier Wrey, 4th Baronet (c. 1653–1696)
- Sir Bourchier Wrey, 5th Baronet (c. 1683–1726)
- Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet (c. 1715–1784)
- Sir Bourchier Wrey, 7th Baronet (1757–1826)
- Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, 8th Baronet (1788–1879)
- Sir Henry Bourchier Wrey, 9th Baronet (1797–1882)
- 9th Baron Sherard.[8]
- Tawstock Court and "to keep house in the old manner" and moved to Corffe a nearby house on the estate, having let the Court.[9] On his own death in 1917 the title passed to his younger brother, Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 12th Baronet (1858–1936),[10] who in 1919 sold 2,500 acres of the estate for £67,000, leaving some 7,000 acres remaining.[11]
- Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 12th Baronet (1858–1936) (brother), left only female progeny.
- Rev. Sir Albany Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 13th Baronet (1861–1948) (brother), died without progeny.
- Sir (Castel Richard) Bourchier Wrey, 14th Baronet (1903–1991) (nephew, son of Edward Castell Wrey, 7th son of 10th Bt.)[12]
- Sir George Richard Bourchier Wrey, 15th Baronet (born 1948)
The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Harry David Bourchier Wrey (born 1984), eldest son of the 15th Baronet.
See also
- Earl of Bath
- Baron Fitzwarine
Sources
- Vivian, Lt. Col. J.L., The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with Additions by J.L. Vivian, Exeter, 1887, pp. 564–566, pedigree of "Wrey of Trebeigh"
Notes
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- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 877, Wrey Baronets
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 877
- ^ Vivian, Visitation of Devon, 1895, p. 106
- ^ "Trebeigh Manor, St. Ive, Cornwall".
- ^ Accounts found in Malta for the Hospitallers of St Ive in 1338 record dovecotes, honey and the prices of animals and grain
- ^ Descent of Trebeigh per Listed Buildings text
- ^ Vivian, (ed.), Heralds' Visitations of Devon, 1895, p. 107
- ^ "Obituary - Sir Henry Bourchier Wrey". The Times. No. 36087. London. 12 March 1900. p. 10.
- ^ Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p. 156
- ^ Obituary: p. 156, The Annual Register: a review of public events at home and abroad, for the year 1917. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1918
- ^ Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p. 156
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 877
References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets