England
Wray of Glentworth and Sleningford — Sir John Wray, 12th Baronet
- Family / house
- Wray; Wray of Sleningford; Ullithorne; Norcliffe
- Family / cadet branch
- Sleningford branch descending from Cecil Wray, son of Sir Christopher Wray and Albinia Cecil
- Armiger / bearer
- Sir John Wray, 12th Baronet
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- baronet
- Heraldic authority
- George Edward Cokayne; Cracroft's Peerage; The Peerage
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1736
- Until / superseded
- 1752
- Historical period
- Georgian period
- Grant / record reference
- Succeeded his uncle Sir Cecil Wray, 11th Baronet, on 9 May 1736.
- Blazon
- Azure, on a chief Or three martlets Gules.
- Plain-English description
- A blue shield with a gold chief bearing three red martlets, with the inherited Wray ostrich crest and baronet's Ulster badge when displayed as a baronet's achievement.
- Tinctures
- Azure; Or; Gules
- Charges / ordinaries
- chief; three martlets
- Crest
- An ostrich Or.
- Motto
- ET JUSTE ET VRAY
- Exterior ornaments
- Baronet's canton of Ulster; hereditary Wray crest.
- Difference / variant
- The Sleningford branch descends through Cecil Wray, a son of Christopher Wray and Albinia Cecil, and returned to the baronetcy after the extinction of the Rathcannon male succession.
- Source reference
- Cracroft's Peerage, Wray (E Baronet, 1611–1809)
- Linked historical person
- Sir John Wray, 12th Baronet
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- William Wray of Sleningford
- Mother
- Isabella Ullithorne
- Spouse(s)
- Frances Norcliffe, daughter and sole heiress of Fairfax Norcliffe of Langton
- Children / next generation
- Sir Cecil Wray, 13th Baronet; Isabella Wray, later wife of John Dalton; Mary Wray
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The title and arms were inherited through a collateral male line of the Albinia Cecil-descended family, making this a key cadet succession rather than an unrelated later Wray.