Robert Wrey

Sir Robert Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 11th Baronet (1855 – 16 January 1917) of Tawstock Court, North Devon, was a prominent member of the Devonshire gentry.

Sir Robert Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 11th Baronet (1855-1917) in uniform of Lt-Col Royal North Devon Hussars
Arms of Wrey of Trebeigh, Cornwall and Tawstock, Devon: Sable, a fesse between three pole-axes argent helved gules[1]

Origins

He was the son and heir of Sir Henry Bourchier Toke Wrey, 10th Baronet (1829-1900) by his wife Marianne Sherard, daughter of Philip Castel Sherard, 9th Baron Sherard (1804–1886).[2]

Career

He served in the Royal Navy, seeing action in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War and with the Naval Brigade landed in the Third Anglo-Burmese War. He retired from the service with the rank of Captain, and later served as honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal North Devon Hussars. In 1900 he succeeded his father in the baronetcy and the family estates. He was the last to live at Tawstock Court and "to keep house in the old manner" and moved to Corffe a nearby house on the estate, having let the Court.[3]

Marriage and children

He married Jessie Fraser, daughter of William Thomson Fraser and granddaughter of John Fraser, of Mongewell Park, Oxfordshire. He left no sons, only a daughter:

Death & succession

On his death in 1917 without sons the title passed to his younger brother, Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 12th Baronet (1858-1936),[4] who promptly in 1919 sold 2,500 acres of the estate for £67,000, leaving some 7,000 acres remaining.[3]

References

  1. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.877, Wrey Baronets
  2. "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.
  3. Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, p.156
  4. 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
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Henry Wrey
Baronet
(of Trebitch)
1900–1917
Succeeded by
Philip Wrey
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