title: Magnay baronets
text: # Magnay baronets
  
  The Magnay Baronetcy, of Postford House in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 November 1844 for William Magnay, a wholesale stationer and Lord Mayor of London from 1843 to 1844. The second Baronet was a novelist. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet on 4 September 1960.
  
  Christopher Magnay, father of the first Baronet, was Lord Mayor of London from 1821 to 1822.
  
  ## Magnay baronets, of Postford House (1844)
  
  * Sir William Magnay, 1st Baronet (1797–1871)
  * Sir William Magnay, 2nd Baronet (1855–1917)
  * Sir Christopher Boyd William Magnay, 3rd Baronet (1884–1960)
  
  ## Arms
  
  Coat of arms of Magnay baronets :
  
  * CrestA 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.
  * EscutcheonErmine 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.
  * MottoMagna Est Veritas
  