GRAVES, Thomas. Entered R.N. 9 March 1816; in the Adventure surveying vessel 1827; surveying in the Mediterranean 1832–50; captain 3 Aug. 1846; F.R.A.S., F.G.S.; port officer Malta; stabbed by a boatman in the street at Malta 29 Aug. 1856. United Service Gazette 6 Sept. 1856 pp. 5, 6, 8.
GRAVES-SAWLE, Sir Joseph Sawle, 1 Baronet (son of admiral John Graves d. 6 May 1811 aged 68). b. Exeter 10 Dec. 1793; took surname of Sawle by royal license 7 April 1815, took additional name of Graves by r.l. 30 Nov. 1827; cr. baronet 22 March 1836. d. Ashfield house, Honiton, Devon 13 Jany. 1865.
GRAY, John Gray, 16 Baron. b. Aberdeen 12 May 1798; succeeded 20 Aug. 1842; a representative peer for Scotland, March 1847 to death. d. 18 Champs Elysees, Paris 31 Jany. 1867.
GRAY, Rev. Andrew (eld. son of William Gray, stocking-maker). b. Aberdeen 2 Nov. 1805; educ. Marischal coll. 1820, M.A. 1824; presbyterian minister at Woodside near Aberdeen 1 Sept. 1831; minister of West church, Perth 14 July 1836; minister of the Free church, Perth 1843 to death; convenor of Glasgow evangelisation committee 1855; author of The present conflict between civil and ecclesiastical courts examined 1839; A catechism of the principles of the Free church 1845; Gospel contrasts and parallels 1862, and some pamphlets. d. Perth 10 March 1861. A. Candlish’s Memoir of A. Gray (1862), pp. ix-civ, portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881); J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy 3 ser. (1851), 281–8.
GRAY, Charles. b. Anstruther, Fifeshire 10 March 1782; second lieut. R.M. 10 Oct. 1804; capt. 9 April 1829 to 13 Nov. 1840, when he retired on full pay; a founder of Musomanik soc. at Anstruther which existed 1813–17; Memb. of Soc. of Antiquaries of Scotland; author of Poems and songs, Cupar 1811, 2 ed. Edin. 1814; Lays and Lyrics 1841; A familiar epistle to P. M’Leod Edin. 1845; contributed to J. F. Wood’s Songs of Scotland 3 vols. 1848–9. d. Archibald place, Edinburgh 13 April 1851. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland ii, 41–3 (1877); Conolloy’s Eminent Men of Fife (1866) p. 207; Whistle Binkie (1878) pp. 28–32.
GRAY, David. b. Kirkaldy, Fifeshire; professor of natural philosophy Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1845 to death. d. Aberdeen 10 Feb. 1856 aged 45.
GRAY, David (eld. son of a hand-loom weaver). b. Merkland, Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire 29 Jany. 1838; educ. Glasgow univ.; private tutor; sent verses to the Glasgow Citizen; went to London 5 May 1860 and spent his first night in Hyde park, then lived in a garret with R. W. Buchanan; befriended by Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) and Sydney Dobell; returned to Merkland, Jany. 1861; in Sudbrook park hydropathic establishment, Richmond 1861; author of The Luggie and other poems 1862; Poems, with memoirs by Lord Houghton and others 1863, another ed. Glasgow 1874. d. of consumption and in poverty at Merkland 3 Dec. 1861. David Gray and other essays by Robert W. Buchanan (1868) pp. 63–174, with portrait; J. G. Wilson’s Poets of Scotland (1877) ii, 485–88; Cornhill Mag. ix, 164–77 (1864).
GRAY, Edmund Dwyer (2 son of Sir John Gray, M.P. 1816–75). b. Dublin 29 Dec. 1845; stockbroker; connected with the Freeman’s Journal, became manager on his father’s death 1875, converted it into a limited co. 1887; proprietor of Belfast Morning News; contested Kilkenny 1875, M.P. Tipperary 1877–80, M.P. county Carlow 1880–85, M.P. St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 1885 to death, supported Mr. Parnell; lord mayor of Dublin 1880, organised a famine relief fund amounting to £180,000; high sheriff of Dublin 1882, sent to prison for 3 months for comments in Freeman’s Journal on trial of Francis Hynes. d. Pembroke house, Upper Mount st. Dublin 27 March 1888. Freeman’s Journal 28, 29 March and 2 April 1888; Pall Mall Gazette 28 March 1888 p. 10, portrait.
GRAY, Edward William. b. 1787; cheese factor and mealman, Bartholomew st. Newbury, Berks. 1823; mayor of Newbury 1839–40; edited The history of Newbury, including 28 parishes in Berks., also a Catalogue of Plants, Speenhamland 1839. d. Woodspeen, Berks. 19 June 1860 aged 73. N. and Q. 4 ser. iii, 554, 607 (1869); Money’s Newbury (1887) pp. 410, 552.
GRAY, George Robert (youngest son of Samuel Frederick Gray, chemist d. 1836). b. Chelsea 8 July 1809; educ. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.; assistant zoological department British Museum 1831, assistant keeper 1869; F.R.S. 1866; author of Entomology of Australia 1833; A list of the genera of birds 1840, 2 ed. 1841, 3 ed. 1855; Genera of birds 3 vols. 1844–49; Hand-list of the genera and species of birds 1869–72 and 13 other books. d. London 5 May 1872. Annals of Natural History 4 ser. ix, 480 (1872).