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 lU'UKKS C'OI.OMAI. (iKNTRY. C-tJ appciinted to the C'wll Service, uiul fur some years was cliarireil with tlio ailmiiiisti-ation of the coufiscated hinds. lu 1877, he was appointed resident magistrate for tiie Upper Wanganui district at Patca and Hawei'a, and in 18^0, became commissioner of Crown hinds for the West Coast (Nortli Ishmd hind district), and in l^fareh, 1888, was transferred to the Timaru district as resident magistrate for Timaru, Gerahline, Ashburton, lic, sherifi and coroner foi- the colony. ILtncnac. After the great relielhon in (Jueen Elizabeth's time, the Whays uf Castle M'ltifi and Ards first emigrated ti) Ireland, and settled in eo. Donegal in 1610, To John Wrat were assigned 1,000 acres of land at Carnegilla, uear Donegal. He was a cailet of the Weavs of A.shhii, created baronets in Uil2 but now extinct, wlio were formerly of I lurhiim, whence they removed to Glentwortli, in Yorkshire, A member of tbat family,' .Sill Chkistopher Wray, of Glentworlh, was chief Justice of tlio Queen's Bench, M,r, for Borougbbridge, and Speaker of the House of Commons, temp. Elizabeth, The son of the above-mentioned John Wray cf Carnegilla, Henry Wrat, of Carnegilla, had a further grant from the Crown in 1(J39 of the lands afternards called Castle Wray. He m. a diu^bter of Sir Paul Gore, by Isabella Wicliff, his wife, a daugliter of the great Earl of Sirafford, and had a son, William Wrat, was living at (iistic Wray in 1680, when his name appeared in the attainder by James II, togetlicr with the rest of the pron>inent Protestant gentry, by which the title was forfeited and the estates confiscated. He m. first, Miss Sampson, and migrated into the depths of the Northern Donegal Highlands, where lie bought the estate of Ai-ds. William Wray, who built the mansion there, d. in 1710. His widow (his second wife Angel, daughter of Coloi;el Galbraith, M,P. for the borough of St. Johnston), erected to his memory a tablet, still to be seen amid the ruins of Clondehorky Church. He had issue, I. Henry, s. to the Castle Wray property, m. Kleanor, second daughter of Sir A'rthur GoiiE, M.P.for the eo. of Longford 1727, and sister of Arthur, first Lord Arran (see Burke's Peerage and JBaroitet(/(/e). II. Humphrey", of whom we treat. The second son, Humphrey Wrat, of Ards, m. Miss Brooke, of Colhrooke, and grand-aunt to Sir Henry Brooke, Bart., eo. Fermanagh, and h:id a son, William What, of Ards, J.P., the last of the family who reigned at that place. He m. the daughter of Rev. Andrew HAMILTON. One of his daughters m. her kinsman Richard Babington, and two brothers, sons of James Stopfoed, Bishop of Clojne, and nephews of the Karl of Courtown, »i. Anne and Angel What, called the "Lilies of Ards." From William Wray is said to descend. Captain Henry Wkav, R.., commander of the royal yacht, who had issue. I. Nicholas, R.N., followed the fortunes of the Due de BouUion, and (/. at sea. II. Luke Henky", of whom we treat. The second son, Captain Luke Hexry What, of the Royal Navy, 1798-1W2.5, /«. twice, and by the fu'st wife had one sou and five daughters, viz., I. Henry Edward, inidshipuiau, K.X., deceased. I. Ophelia E. C, m. Colonel T. G. Eraser, Isfc Fusiliers, and had issue, 1. Thomas Lyons, Colonel (retired) 12tli Regiment, m. and has issue, two chilch'cn. 1. Ophelia M. M., m. General W. Gray', 1st Bombay European Regiment, both deceased, leaving a daughter. 2. Helen Scott, m. General Dei.a- fosse. Royal Bengal Fusiliers. She is deceased. 3. Margaret Outram, m. first, Captain Shewell, l:;tli legi- meut, and secondly, Cyril Raw- lins, solicitor. 4. Alice, m. Colonel Ahneric Spencer, of the Essex Regiment, son of the Hon. and Rev. W. Spencer. II. Sophia Anne, m. Co!onel Philip L. Hart, R.E,, of Ashleigli, Ross, Herefordshire. III. Julia L,, d. mini. IV. Emily White. V. Eliza, III. General E. H.uivey, of the 14th Light Dragoons, both deceased, leaving no issue. Captain Luke Henry Wray m. secondly, Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of Commander Edward BuRT, R.N., a first cousin of his first wife's, and had issue, II. Charles Allen, the subject of this memoir. VI. Frances Charlotte, d. unni. VII. Annette, m. Haslett, of New Zealand, and is deceased. Captain Wra^ d. at Chester 11th Januarv, 18(il. 2 1 2