GRAY, Henry. F.R.C.S.; lecturer on anatomy St. George’s hospital; took triennial prize of R. coll. surgeons 1849 for essay on anatomy of the eye; took triennial Astley Cooper prize of £300 for researches on the spleen 1853; resident Fellow Med. Chir. Soc. 1850; F.R.S. 1852; author of Anatomy descriptive and surgical 1858 11 ed. 1887; The pocket Gray or anatomist’s vade mecum 1879, 6 ed. 1886 and other books. d. of small pox 8 Wilton st., Belgrave sq., London 8 June 1861 aged 36. Proc. Royal Soc. xii, p. xi (1863); Proc. R. Med. Chir. Soc. iv, 78–79 (1862).
GRAY, John. b. Aberdeen 1805; educ. Gordon’s hospital; with White and Whitmore, solicitors, London; barrister Middle Temple 26 Jany. 1838, bencher 1863; Q.C. 4 Nov. 1863; solicitor to the Treasury March 1871, conducted prosecution of Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant 1873; author of Gray’s Country Attorney’s practice 1836; The Country Solicitor’s practice 1837; Gray’s Law of costs 1853. d. 16 Gloucester road, Regent’s Park, London 22 Jany. 1875 in his 68 year. I.L.N. lxvi, 109, 110 (1875), portrait.
GRAY, Sir John (3 son of John Gray). b. Claremorris, co. Mayo 1816; M.D. practised in Dublin 1839; editor and part proprietor of Freeman’s Journal 1841, sole proprietor 1850; indicted with D. O’Connell for conspiracy against the queen and imprisoned in Richmond bridewell Feb. to Sept. 1843; contested Monaghan 1852, M.P. Kilkenny city 1865 to death; knighted by the earl of Carlisle 30 June 1863 for his services in procuring water for Dublin from the Vartry river; declined to serve as lord mayor of Dublin 1868; originated movement which led to Gladstone’s disestablishment of Irish church, and was presented with £3,500 Aug. 1863; author of The Irish church establishment 1866. d. Bath 9 April 1875. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin, marble statue erected in Sackville st. Dublin 1879. I.L.N. xliii, 248 (1863) lxvi, 379 (1875); Medical Times 17 April 1875, p. 431.
GRAY, John Edward (elder bro. of George Robert Gray 1809–72). b. Walsall, Staffs. 12 Feb. 1800; educ. St. Bartholomew’s and Middlesex hospitals; blackballed at Linnean soc. 1822, elected Fellow 1857; F. Entom. soc. 1824; assistant British Museum 1824, keeper of zoological department 31 March 1840, resigned Dec. 1874, edited many catalogues of the contents of his department; on natural history, zoology, social, educational and sanitary questions, wrote 1162 books, papers and memoirs 1824 to death; F.R.S. 1832, vice president; Dr. Philos. of Munich univ. 1852; author of A hand catalogue of postage stamps 1862, 2 ed. 1863; Handbook of British waterweeds 1864; Lizards of Australia and New Zealand 1867; Synopsis of star fishes in British Museum 1866 and other books. d. British Museum 7 March 1875. Athenæum 13 March 1875, p. 363; Portraits of Men of Eminence (1863), portrait.
GRAY, Rev. John Hamilton (only son of Robert Gray of Carntyre, Lanarks., who d. 1833). b. Glasgow 29 Dec. 1800; ed. at Glasgow, Magd. coll., Ox. and Gottingen; B.A. Ox. 1824, M.A. Ox. 1826; member of Scottish bar 1824–28; a constant visitor to the continent and Italy; V. of Bolsover and Scarcliff, co. Derby 1833–66; rural dean of Chesterfield 1847; R. of Walton-le-Wald, co. Leicester 1866; author of On the ordaining influence of the Holy Ghost 1837; Sermons in Rome during Lent 1838, 1842; Bolsover Castle 1838 and other books. (m. 23 June 1829 Elizabeth Caroline eld. dau. of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, co. Clackmannan, she was author of Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria 1841, 3 ed. 1843 and 3 other books, and d. 21 Feb. 1887 aged 87), he d. 91 Sloane st. London 20 April 1867. bur. crypt of Glasgow cath. Autobiography of Rev. J. H. Gray (1868), portrait.
GRAY, Venerable John Henry. Educ. Christ’s coll. Camb.; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, LLD. 1876; D.D. of Lambeth, March 1881; C. of Rothley, Leicester 1850–52; H.M. consular chaplain, Canton 1852–78; archdeacon of Hong Kong 1867–78; R. of Hunsdon, Herts. 1881–84; author of China, a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people 2 vols. 1878; Walks in the city of Canton 1875; A journey round the world 1879; contributed to the London and China Express a series of papers on Chinese customs 1889–90. d. St. Leonard’s, Sussex 16 March 1890 aged 62.
GRAY, Joseph Bowers (eld. son of Joseph Gray of Chelmsford). b. 1820; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 24 Feb. 1848 aged 28; principal of Berwick college, Maine, U.S.; M.A. and D. Med. d. South Berwick 1 Nov. 1856 aged 39. G.M. ii, 247 (1887).
GRAY, Rev. Joshua Taylor (5 son of Rev. J. Gray, pastor of College st. church, Northampton). b. Devonport 9 Feb. 1809; educ. Mill Hill gram. sch. and Bristol coll.; Ph.D.; pastor at Cambridge; kept schools at North Brixton and at South Crescent, Bedford sq. London; pastor Wellington sq. ch. Hastings 1849; tutor in Stepney coll. 1850; author of Exercises in logic 1845; Immortality, its real and alleged evidences 1843, 2 ed. 1847. d. 1 Stuart villa, Sydenham road, Bristol 13 July 1854. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful men of Bristol coll. (1884) pp. 315–17.
GRAY, Louisa M. (dau. of Rev. Thomas Gray of Freech, Inverurie). Author of Ada and Gerty, a story of school life, Edin. 1875, 2 ed. 1878; Mine own people 1884; Dunalton, the story of Jack and his guardians 1886. d. Dec. 1888 or Jany. 1889.
GRAY, Maria Emma (dau. of Henry Smith, lieut. R.N.) b. Greenwich hospital, Kent 1787. (m. (1) 1810 Francis Edward Gray of Oporto and Blackheath, who d. 1814; m. (2) in 1826 John Edward Gray 1800–75, whom she assisted in his works, especially by her drawing); arranged Cuming collection of shells in British Museum; author of Figures of molluscous animals for the use of students 5 vols. 1842–74; arranged sets of algæ for schools to encourage study; bequeathed her collection of algæ to Cambridge univ. museum; the genus Grayemma was called after her 1866; her husband struck a bronze medal with their portraits on it 1863. d. 43 Russell sq. London 9 Dec. 1876. Times 15 Dec. 1876 p. 7.