Sir Hilary Bray is the consultant genealogist, College of Arms, London [1]. They are not currently a candidate for elected office and have not filed in any 2026 race [2].
Bray, a baronet and Fellow of the College of Arms, specializes in cadet branches of the older English peerage. He was recently absent from his London duties for an extended research visit to a mountaintop allergy-research clinic in the Swiss Alps, undertaken at the invitation of a Comte de Bleuchamp whose claim to the title he had been engaged to verify. Colleagues report that on his return he seemed, in one member's phrase, distinctly less tweedy than when he had left. [1][2]
Bray favors the continued official recognition of the ancient armigerous families of England and has argued that heraldic scholarship should remain a matter of state record rather than political controversy. [2]
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