Edmund Bray

Bray was a younger son of Reginald Bray (d. 1688) of Barrington Park and his wife Jane Rainton, daughter of William Rainton of Shilton, Shilton, Oxfordshire, who had a large family of 6 sons and 9 daughters.

He was wholly inactive in the House, however, and was granted leave of absence several times over long periods.

He was returned unopposed again in the 1705 general election, but decided not to stand for re-election at Tewkesbury in 1708.

Bray was returned as MP for Gloucestershire at a by-election on 22 June 1720 but did not stand at the subsequent general election of 1722.

[4] Shortly before his death he erected a monument at Great Barrington to commemorate a son and daughter who had died young, which also provided details of his wider family.