Sir William Magnay, 2nd Baronet

Sir William Magnay, 2nd Baronet (1855 – 8 January 1917) was an English baronet and novelist.

Magnay was a son of Sir William Magnay, 1st Baronet who was Lord Mayor of London. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1871. He was a prolific novelist, and published twenty-five novels before his death; a further three were brought out posthumously.

Magnay married in 1879, and was himself succeeded by his son Christopher Magnay, born 1884.

Works

Magnay's publications included:^[1]

The Red Chancellor
Poached Peerage
Honi Soit: an Original Play in Four Acts (1887)
The Fall of a Star, a novel (1897)
The Heiress of the Season (1899)
Count Zarka; a Romance (1903)
A Prince of Lovers; a Romance (1905)
The Master Spirit (1906)
The Amazing Duke : a Romance (1907)
The Players: a Tragi-comedy (1913)
The Hunt Ball Mystery (1918)

Arms

Coat of arms of Sir William Magnay, 2nd Baronet
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^[2]

References

^ Works by William Magnay at Project Gutenberg
^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.

Obituary: p. 152, The Annual Register: a review of public events at home and abroad, for the year 1917. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1918.
p. 387, The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, for 1860: by Robert Dod. London: Whitaker and Co., 1860.
List of mystery novels at Mystery*File.