John Moutray [SEP] date of death
John Moutray
John Moutray (c.1722 – 22 November 1785) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He reached the rank of post-captain and served as the Royal Commissioner for English Harbour in Antigua.
Biography.
He was born c. 1722. He was married to Mary Moutray on 2 September 1771.
He was promoted to post-captain on 28 December 1758.
On 29 July 1780 a convoy of 63 ships were bound for the East Indies and West Indies. They left Great Britain under the
Spur Royal or Augher Castle.
John Moutray married the Erskine heiress of Favour Royal, and the original house was built by them in 1670. In 1816 the Moutrays briefly employed a local boy, John Hughes, as an apprentice gardener - Hughes would go on to become the Catholic Archbishop of New York in 1842. The old house was destroyed in 1823 by an accidental fire, and was replaced with a larger structure by Captain John Corry Moutray of Castle Coole. Captain Moutray commissioned the architect John Hargrave to design the new