Sir Henry Bourchier Toke Wrey, 10th Baronet DL JP (27 June 1829 – 10 March 1900) of Tawstock Court, North Devon.
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Early life
He was the eldest son of the Rev. Sir Henry Bourchier Wrey, 9th Baronet, the Rector at Tawstock, and, his first wife, the former Ellen Maria Toke, who were first cousins. He had two siblings, the Rev. Bourchier William Toke Wrey (the Curate at Warmsworth who married Anne Caroline Crosthwait, daughter of Thomas Crosthwait) and Anna Maria Toke Wrey (who married Very Rev. Isaac Morgan Reeves, Dean of Ross, Ireland). After his mother's death in 1864, his father remarried to Jane Lamb (a daughter of Humble Lamb), in 1865.
His paternal grandparents were Sir Bourchier Wrey, 7th Baronet and the former Anne Osborne (a daughter of John Osborne). His maternal grandparents were Nicholas Roundell Toke and Anna Maria Wrey (a daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet).
Wrey matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in November 1846 and graduated in 1851.
Career
Wrey captain in the 4th (Militia) Battalion Devonshire Regiment, later gaining the rank of Major. He succeeded as the 10th Baronet Wrey, of Trebitch, on 23 December 1882. In 1885, he sold the former Bourchier manor of Holne on the River Dart to Hon. Richard Maitland Westenra Dawson (third son of Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey). In the same year of 1885 he made substantial improvements to Tawstock Court, most notably to the two long wings extending westwards, forming a long narrow courtyard, which received terracotta mullioned windows and dressings, probably made at Lauder & Smith's Barnstaple pottery. He also added a western gatehouse to close off this western courtyard, with terracotta datestone "1885" above the arched gateway.