Magnay baronets

The Magnay Baronetcy, of Postford House in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 November 1844 for William Magnay, a wholesale stationer and Lord Mayor of London from 1843 to 1844.^[1] The second Baronet was a novelist. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet on 4 September 1960.^[2]

Christopher Magnay, father of the first Baronet, was Lord Mayor of London from 1821 to 1822.^[3]

Magnay baronets, of Postford House (1844)

• Sir William Magnay, 1st Baronet (1797–1871)
• Sir William Magnay, 2nd Baronet (1855–1917)
• Sir Christopher Boyd William Magnay, 3rd Baronet (1884–1960)

Arms

Coat of arms of Magnay baronets

Crest A lion rampant Sable billety Erminois murally crowned gorged with a chain reflexed over the back and holding between the forepaws a leopard's face Or. Escutcheon Ermine fretty Gules on a chief per pale of the second and Azure a sword Proper pommel and hilt Or surmounting a key saltirewise the ward upwards Gold interlaced with the collar of the Lord Mayor of the City of London between two leopards' faces Erminois. Motto Magna Est Veritas [4]

References

1. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1898. p. 959. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
2. "Sir C. Magnay". The Times. 5 September 1960. p. 14.
3. Boase, Frederic (1897). Modern English Biography: I-Q. Netherton and Worth. p. 689. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
4. Burke's Peerage. 1949.