Bourchier Wrey ca.1683-1726

Sir Bourchier WREY, 5th baronet ca.1683-1726

Biographical Note

Son of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 4th bart of Tawstock, Devon and Trebeigh, Cornwall, from whom he inherited the title and family estates in 1696 (he also inherited significant estates in Wales in the same year). Matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford 1700, but did not graduate. MP for Camelford 1712-15; he was a deputy lieutenant for Cornwall in 1714 but by the 1720s he was noted as a Jacobite, hostile to the Hanoverian crown. He was succeeded by his son of the same name, as 6th baronet.

Books

Wrey's library was sold by retail sale in Tawstock, beginning 6 March 1727; no catalogue survives, but the sale was advertised in Brice's Weekly Journal as comprising "Latin, Greek, French, Italian and English books, many of them royal paper, curiously bound in morocco leather".

Sources

• History of Parliament.
• Alston, R. C., Inventory of sale catalogues ... 1676-1800, St Philip, 2010.
• Information from Anna-Lujz Gilbert.