England
Wray of Fillingham, Sleningford and Glentworth — Sir Cecil Wray, 13th Baronet
- Family / house
- Wray; Wray of Fillingham; Wray of Sleningford; Norcliffe; Summers
- Family / cadet branch
- Fillingham and Sleningford branch of the Glentworth Wrays
- Armiger / bearer
- Sir Cecil Wray, 13th Baronet
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- baronet
- Heraldic authority
- George Edward Cokayne; National Portrait Gallery; Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1752
- Until / superseded
- 1805
- Historical period
- Georgian period
- Grant / record reference
- Succeeded his father Sir John Wray, 12th Baronet, on 26 January 1752.
- Blazon
- Azure, on a chief Or three martlets Gules.
- Plain-English description
- Blue shield, gold chief and three red martlets; a full baronet achievement uses the Wray ostrich crest and the Ulster badge.
- 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 and Wray ostrich crest. His later public identity was also associated with Fillingham or Summer Castle.
- Difference / variant
- Inherited the ordinary Wray arms as 13th Baronet. His significant branch distinction is territorial and genealogical—Fillingham Castle and the Norcliffe maternal inheritance—not a field alteration.
- Source reference
- Sir Cecil Wray, 13th Baronet biography
- Linked historical person
- Sir Cecil Wray, 13th Baronet
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Sir John Wray, 12th Baronet
- Mother
- Frances Norcliffe
- Spouse(s)
- Esther Summers
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
This armiger is the terminal effective holder of the Wray estates in the principal Sleningford/Fillingham branch; the baronetcy continued briefly through his cousin Rev. Sir William Ullithorne Wray.