Sir Christopher Wray was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1646.
Background
Wray was the son of Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet, of Glentworth of Ashby and Barlings, Lincolnshire and his second wife, Frances Drury, widow of Sir Nicholas Clifford of Bobbing, Kent, and daughter of Sir William Drury of Hawsted, Suffolk, and Elizabeth Stafford.
Career
He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. He was knighted on 12 November 1623. He was re-elected Member of Parliament for Grimsby in 1624 and 1625.
He was elected again in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.
He successfully resisted the levy of ship money in 1636. In April 1640, Wray was elected Member of Parliament for Grimsby in the Short Parliament and was re-elected for the Long Parliament in November 1640.
He was Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire under the militia ordinance. During the First English Civil War he co-operated in the field with John Hotham.
He was appointed on 15 April 1645 commissioner of the admiralty, and on 5 December following commissioner resident with the Scottish forces before Newark.
He died on 8 February 1646. Wray married Albinia Cecil, daughter of Sir Edward Cecil on 3 August 1623. On the death about March 1685-1686 of his only surviving brother and successor in title, Sir William Wray, the junior baronetcy became extinct.
Membership
Short Parliament; Useless Parliament. Happy Parliament]
In 1621 he was elected Member of Parliament for Grimsby.