Sir Cecil Wray, 11th Baronet

He was the second son of Sir Drury Wray, 9th Baronet and Anne Casey.^[1] Among his siblings was sister, Diana Wray, who married The Ven. William Twigge, the Archdeacon of Limerick.In 1674 his father had obtained grants of land in the counties of Limerick and Tipperary, which he forfeited by his loyalty to James II, on whose side he fought at the Battle of the Boyne.^[2]

His paternal grandparents were Sir Christopher Wray, MP for Grimsby (a son of Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet), and the Hon. Albinia Cecil (daughter and co-heiress of the 1st Viscount Wimbledon).^[3] His uncle, William Wray, was created the 1st Baronet Wray, of Ashby. Another uncle was Sir Christopher Wray, 6th Baronet and his aunt, Frances Wray, married Henry Vane the Younger. His maternal grandparents were Bridget Dowdall (a daughter of Sir John Dowdall and Elizabeth Southwell) and Thomas Casey of Rathcannon, County Limerick.

Upon the death of his elder brother, Christopher, in December 1710, he succeeded as the 11th Baronet Wray, of Glentworth, Lincolnshire. His brother had only succeeded to the baronetcy weeks earlier upon their father's death on their father on 30 October 1710. His father had succeeded to the baronetcy from his nephew, Sir Cecil's first cousin, Sir Baptist Edward Wray, in 1689.^[4] Upon the 1714 death, without surviving issue, of Elizabeth (née Wray) Saunderson, the only child of Sir John Wray, 3rd Baronet who was a widow of Hon. Nicholas Saunderson (eldest son of the 5th Viscount Castleton), the Glentworth estates passed by entail to Sir Cecil, her next heir male.^[a]

He served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1715 following Francis Anderson. He was himself succeeded as Sheriff by Bartholomew Burton.^[4]