Robert Wrey

Sir Robert Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 11th Baronet DL JP (23 May 1855 – 16 January 1917) of Tawstock Court, North Devon, was a prominent member of the Devonshire gentry.

He was the son and heir of Sir Henry Bourchier Toke Wrey, 10th Baronet (1829-1900) and the former Marianne Sherard.

He retired from the service with the rank of captain, and later served as honorary lieutenant-colonel of the Royal North Devon Hussars.

He left no sons, only a daughter:[6] On his death in a nursing home in 1917 without sons,[7] the title passed to his younger brother, Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 12th Baronet,[8] who promptly in 1919 sold 2,500 acres of the estate for £67,000, leaving some 7,000 acres remaining.

[9] Through his daughter Rachel, he was a grandfather of David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke (b.

Arms of Wrey of Trebeigh, Cornwall and Tawstock, Devon: Sable, a fesse between three pole-axes argent helved gules [ 1 ]