Arms.—Argent, a chevron between three dolphins naiant embowed sable.
Present Representative, Nicholas Kendall, Esq. M.P. for East Cornwall.
Wrey of Trebigh, in the parish of St. Ive, Baronet.
An old Devonshire family, descended from Robert le Wrey, who lived in the second of Stephen (1136-7), and whose son was seated at Wrey, in the parish of Moreton-Hamstead, in that county. A match with the heiress of Killigrew removed the Wreys into Cornwall, and Trebigh became their principal house, until, by the marriage of Sir Chichester Wrey, the second Baronet, with one of the co-heiresses of Edward Bourchier, fourth Earl of Bath, they became possessed of the noble seat of Tawstock, in Devonshire, the present usual residence of the family.
See Carew, 117 a; Gilbert's Survey, i. 555; Lysons, lxxxix. 146; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 84; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, 567.
Arms.—Sable, a fess between three pole-axes argent, helved gules.
Present Representative, Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, 8th Baronet.
Rashleigh of Menabilly.
