Andrew Wray
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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]]'', where [[Jack Aubrey|Jack]] and [[Stephen Maturin|Stephen]] detect him in cheating at cards. He is on the surface a charming and cultivated man with an informed interest in music, but he is also a spendthrift, a sexual deviant (he frequents a brothel in St. James's, [[London]], opposite [[Black's]] Club) and 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]]. | + | '''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. He is on the surface a charming and cultivated man with an informed interest in music, but he is also a spendthrift, a sexual deviant (he frequents a brothel in St. James's, [[London]], opposite [[Black's]] Club) and 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]]. | 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]]. | ||
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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, where Jack and Stephen detect him in cheating at cards. He is on the surface a charming and cultivated man with an informed interest in music, but he is also a spendthrift, a sexual deviant (he frequents a brothel in St. James's, London, opposite Black's Club) and a traitor who is devoted to 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. 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.
Occasionally Wray's first name is given as Edmund.
