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'''Andrew Wray''' is an English civil servant in the employ of the [[Admiralty]];  he occupies the influential post of Second Secretary to the Admiralty as substitute for [[John Barrow]], who is represented as being incapacitated by a long illness.  Wray first appears in ''[[Desolation Island (novel)|Desolation Island]]'', where [[Jack Aubrey|Jack]] and [[Stephen Maturin|Stephen]] detect him in cheating at cards.  


{{spoiler|Desolation Island, Treason's Harbour, The Reverse of the Medal, The Thirteen-Gun Salute}}


Wray is on the surface a charming and cultivated man with an informed interest in music and the arts.  However, he also cheats at cards, is a spendthrift, an alcoholic, and a bisexual (he is married to [[Fanny Harte]] but frequents a brothel in St. James's, [[London]], opposite [[Black's]] Club and has a relationship with [[Ledward]]). He is also a traitor who is devoted to [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]] and acts as a spy for [[France]]; as a result of this activity he becomes Stephen's enemy as well as Jack's.  His animosity towards the latter is aggravated by the attachment between his ill-used wife, the former [[Fanny Harte]], and Jack's protegé [[William Babbington]].

Stephen, while suspicious of Wray's personal character, long remains ignorant of the man's treason;  in ''[[Treason's Harbour]]'' he co-operates with Wray while striving to break up the French spy network in [[Malta]] and disastrously entrusts him with an important letter to [[Diana Villiers|Diana]].  Wray and his fellow-conspirator [[Ledward]] are finally unmasked in ''[[The Reverse of the Medal]]'';  the influence of a highly-placed patron, the [[Duke of Habachtsthal]], enables the two to evade arrest and escape abroad.  Wray and Ledward are last seen in ''[[The Thirteen-Gun Salute]]'', where they are attached to the French embassy to [[Pulo Prabang]].

[[Category:Aubrey-Maturin series characters|Wray, Andrew]]

Occasionally Wray's first name is given as Edmund.