Sir Christopher Wray (7 May 1601 – 6 February 1646) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1646. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.
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Early life
Wray was born on 7 May 1601 at Ashby, Lincolnshire. He was the son of Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet, of Glentworth of Ashby and Barlings, Lincolnshire and, his second wife, Frances (née Drury), Lady Clifford, widow of Sir Nicholas Clifford of Bobbing, Kent. From his father's first marriage to Lucy Montagu (eldest daughter of Edward Montagu), his elder half-siblings included Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet, Edward Wray (a Groom of the Bedchamber who married Elizabeth Norris), and Elizabeth Wray (who married Sir Francis Foljambe, 1st Baronet). From his parents' marriage, his siblings included Charles Wray (who was killed fighting in Spain), and Frances Wray (who married Sir Anthony Irby).
His paternal grandparents were Christopher Wray, the Chief Justice of the King's Bench who served as Speaker of the House of Commons, and Anne Girlington (a daughter of Nicholas Girlington of Normanby, Yorkshire). His maternal grandparents were Sir William Drury of Hawsted, Suffolk, and Elizabeth Stafford (the daughter of courtier Sir William Stafford). After her grandfather's death in 1590, her grandmother, a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I, married Sir John Scott.