William Bray (1682–1720), of Barrington Park, Gloucestershire was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1720.
Bray was a younger son of Reginald Bray (d. 1688) of Barrington Park and his wife Jane Rainton, daughter of William Rainton of Shilton, Oxfordshire, who had a large family of 6 sons and 9 daughters.
[1] His elder brother Reginald (d. 1712) was sent to Oxford for his education, as his father had been before him.
[2] William, as a younger son, was destined for a career in the army, joining the Royal Horse Guards as a Cornet in 1700.
[1] As his elder brother Reginald died without an heir, William succeeded to the family estate at Barrington Park in 1712.