Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet

Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet (c. 1715 – 1784), depicted on a ship at sea serving from a punch bowl, the rim of which is inscribed from Horace, IV Odes, xii, closing line: Dulce est Desipere in Loco ("It is sweet at fitting time to act foolishly"). 1744 portrait by George Knapton (1698–1778) for the Society of Dilettanti.
Arms of Wrey of Trebeigh, Cornwall and Tawstock, Devon: Sable, a fesse between three pole-axes argent helved gules[1]

Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet (c. 1715 – 13 April 1784) of Tawstock, Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Barnstaple, Devon, in 1747–1754.[2] The manor of Tawstock, about two miles south of Barnstaple, had been since the time of Henry de Tracy (died 1274) the residence of the feudal barons of Barnstaple,[3] ancestors of the Wrey family.

  1. ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.877, Wrey Baronets
  2. ^ Matthews
  3. ^ Pole, Sir William (died 1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.17