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GRANT, Sir Richard (son of Richard Grant, H.M.’s proctor at Jamaica). b. Kingston, Jamaica 1783; entered navy July 1798; captain 17 May 1828; R.A. on half pay 7 Feb. 1855; knighted by Earl Talbot, lord lieut. of Ireland 1820. d. Shawefield, Havant, Hants. 3 March 1859 aged 75.

GRANT, Rev. Robert (son of Thomas Grant of Sheerness, Kent). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 15 Nov. 1815 aged 18, fellow 1815–28; B.C.L. 1823; V. of Bradford Abbas, Dorset 1828–86; preb. of Salisbury 1845 to death; author of Lectures on the parable of the prodigal son 1830; Kapiolani and other poems 1848; Reminiscences of a clergyman during a ministry of forty years in a country parish 1873. d. 11 Clarendon row, Southsea 15 Sep. 1887 in 91 year.

GRANT, Robert Edmond (7 son of Alexander Grant of Edinburgh, writer to the signet, d. 1808). b. Argyle sq. Edin. 11 Nov. 1793; ed. at high school and univ. Edin., M.D. Edin. 1814; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1814; F.R.S. Edin. 1824; professor of comparative anatomy and zoology in univ. of London, June 1827 to death, lectured 5 times a week, never omitted a single lecture; Fullerian professor of physiology in royal institution 1837–40; Swiney lecturer on geology at British Museum 5 years; F.R.S. 4 Feb. 1836; styled the Cuvier of England; author of An essay on the study of the animal kingdom 1828, 2 ed. 1829; Outlines of comparative anatomy 1835–41, and papers in Lancet. d. 2 Euston grove, Euston sq. London 23 Aug. 1874, left all his property to Univ. coll. London. Proc. of Royal society, xxiii, pp. vi-x (1875); Quarterly Journal of Geological society, xxxi, 49–52.

GRANT, Most Rev. Thomas (2 son of Bernard Grant of Ackerson’s Mill near Newry, quartermaster 82 foot, who d. May 1856 aged 69). b. Ligny-les-Aires, France 5 Nov. 1816; entered St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham 1 Jany. 1829; entered English college, Rome 1 Dec. 1836; created D.D. 27 Aug. 1841; priest 28 Nov. 1841; sec. to Cardinal Acton 1841–47 when he died; prorector of English college, Rome 13 April 1844, rector 13 Oct. 1844 to 27 June 1851; bishop of Southwark 27 June 1851 to death, consecrated in church of English college, Rome by Cardinal Fransoni 4 July 1851; author of Meditations of the Sisters of Mercy before renewal of vows 1874. d. the English college, Rome 1 June 1870. bur. in cemetery of orphanage at Norwood, Surrey. Thomas Grant, bishop of Southwark, by Grace Ramsay 1874, with 2 portraits; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 5–11 (1887).

GRANT, Sir Thomas Tassell (eld. son of Thomas Grant of Soberton, Hants.) b. Portsea, Hants. 1795; entered naval service 1812; storekeeper Clarence victualling yard, Gosport 1828; controller of victualling and transport service Dec. 1850 to 1858; invented steam machinery for making biscuits 1829 for which he had parliamentary grant of £2000; invented a life buoy, a feathering paddle wheel, and Grant’s patent fuel 1839 which is used in the navy; distilled fresh water from the sea 1849, the Wye with his apparatus sent to the Crimea produced 10,000 gallons daily 1855; K.C.B. 6 Sep. 1858; F.R.S. d. 20 Chester ter. Regent’s park, London 15 Oct. 1859 aged 64. Times 19 Oct. 1859 p. 7; G.M. Nov. 1859 p. 534.

GRANT, William (brother of Most Rev. Thomas Grant 1816–70). Professor at St. Peter’s college, Agra 18—to death; started the Agra Weekly Register. d. Agra 20 May 1863.

GRANT, William Augustine Ignatius. b. 1838; a Presbyterian; a member of Church of England; a Roman Catholic 1857–68; an Irvingite 1868–73; an extreme Ritualist 1873–80; a Roman Catholic again 1880 to death; a landscape painter, exhibited 1 picture at R.A. and 4 at B.I. 1862–64; lived at Peckham many years; one of the ablest controversialists of his day; author of The Communion of Saints in the Church of God 1867; Apostolic Lordship and the interior life: a narrative of five years’ communion with Catholic Apostolic Angels, privately printed 1873, published under title of Apostolic Lordship, or five years with the Irvingites: and why I left them 1874; The peoples’ mass book, By a Layman of the Church of England 1874 and other books. d. Clifton 21 May 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 11–14 (1887).

GRANT, William James. b. Hackney, London 1829; student at R.A. 1844; exhibited 39 works at R.A. and 5 at B.I. 1847–66; some of his pictures were, Edward the Black Prince entertaining French King 1848, Samson and Delilah 1852, The morning of the duel 1860, The lady and the wasp 1866. d. London? 2 June 1866.

GRANT, Sir William Keir (son of Archibald Keir of H.E.I.C.S.) b. 1771; cornet 15 dragoons 30 May 1792; one of 8 officers who saved Francis II. Emperor of Germany from being taken prisoner by the French in the plains of Catau Cambresis 24 April 1794, received gold medal and was made knight of Maria Theresa; lieut. col. 22 light dragoons 3 Dec. 1800; served in India as adjutant general 1806–14; commander in chief and second member of council in Java 1815–16; served in India 1819–21; col. 8 dragoons 1 Feb. 1833 to 24 Aug. 1839, and of 2 dragoons 24 Aug. 1839 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.H. 1821, G.C.H. 1835; K.C.B. 3 Dec. 1822; G.C. of Lion and Sun, Persia. d. 20 Chapel st. Belgrave sq. London 7 May 1852. G.M. June 1852 pp. 619–20; Dod’s Peerage 1852 p. 258.

GRANTHAM, George. Entered Madras army 1823; col. 5 Madras N.I. 4 Nov. 1856–61; col. 39 Madras N.I. 1861–69; L.G. 6 March 1868; drowned in collision between steamers Mary and Normandy about 20 miles from the Needles, Isle of Wight 17 March 1870 aged 67. Times 18–26 March 1870.

GRANTHAM, Rev. George Peirce (son of George Grantham of firm of Gosling and Sharp, bankers, London). b. Finsbury, London 11 Jany. 1833; educ. King’s coll. Lond. and Univ. of Lond.; C. of Allhallows East, Exeter 1859–61; C. of Rame, Cornwall 1861–65; C. of Hotham 1865–67; senior C. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1867–76; precentor and senior curate of St. Michael’s, Swanmore, Ryde 1876–79; V. of Llanbadoc near Usk 1879–81; C. of Holy Cross mission ch. Bedminster 1881–83; C. of St. Augustine, Kensington 1883; V. of Ston Easton with Farrington Gurney 1885; author of Holy Songs 1866; The mysteries of holy church and other verses 1871; History of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1872; Carols for yule tide, with original music 1877; editor of Ecclesiastical Art Rev. 1878. d. The Elms, Farrington Gurney 13 Oct. 1885. bur. Arnos vale cemetery, Bristol. International Mag., Oct. 1885 pp. 110–11.

GRANTHAM, John. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; L.S.A. 1823; M.R.C.S. 21 Feb. 1823, hon. fellow 26 Aug. 1844; author of Facts and observations on medicine and surgery 1844. d. Crayford, Kent 14 Nov. 1873 in 73 year.

GRANTHAM, John (2 son of John Grantham, surveyor). b. Croydon 1809; managing partner of firm of Mather, Dickson & Co.; one of founders of Polytechnic society, Liverpool; a naval architect and consulting engineer at Liverpool; planned and executed several of the largest iron sailing and steam ships; took out patents for screw propellers, and invented a system of sheathing iron built ships with copper; practised in London 1859 to death; constructed the first tramway in Copenhagen 1863; patented a steam tramway car; one of founders of Institution of naval architects Jany. 1860, member of council Jany. 1860 to death; A.I.C.E. 11 Feb. 1840, M.I.C.E. 29 Nov. 1864; author of Iron as a material for ship building 1842; Iron ship building 1858, 5 ed. 1868. d. Croydon 10 July 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 266–68 (1875).

GRANVILLE, Augustus Bozzi (3 son of Carlo Bozzi, postmaster general Milan). b. Milan 7 Oct. 1783; studied at Univ. of Pavia 1799–1802, M.D. 28 Aug. 1802; assistant surgeon in British navy March 1807, retired as surgeon on half pay 1813; assumed maternal name of Granville; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1813; L.R.C.P. 1817; studied at La Maternité, Paris, and qualified as an accoucher 1816–17; settled at 8 Saville row, London 1818; F.R.S. 1817; physician accoucher Westminster general dispensary 1819; introduced use of prussic acid for chest affections; established a West-end infirmary for young children; pres. of Westminster medical soc. 1829; visited Kissingen 1840–68 and set the fashion of drinking its waters; confidential friend of ex-king Joseph Bonaparte 1832–44; author of St. Petersburg, a journal of travels 2 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1829; The spas of Germany 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1838; The spas of England and sea-bathing places 3 vols. 1841 and 31 other works. d. 20 Folkestone ter. Dover 3 March 1872. Autobiography of A. B. Granville (1874), portrait; Munk’s Coll. of physicians, iii, 174–7 (1878); Physic and physicians, ii, 269–71 (1839).

GRATTAN, Sir Edmund Arnout (son of Thomas C. Grattan 1792–1864). b. 1818; British consul at Boston for state of Massachusetts 4 Aug. 1848 to 1858; consul at Antwerp 11 Jany. 1858 to 1883; consul general for Belgium 28 Nov. 1883 to 1888; British commissioner Antwerp exhibition 1885; V.P. Royal Geog. soc. Antwerp; F.R.G.S.; knighted by patent 18 Nov. 1889. d. Ostend Aug. 1890 aged 72.

GRATTAN, Henry Plunkett, stage name of Henry Willoughby Grattan Plunkett. b. Dublin 1808; made his début at Milton st. theatre London in The Rake’s Progress; author of The Minerali, or the dying gift, a drama by H. Plunkett, produced at Cobourg theatre; The Dumb Conscript produced at Astley’s 1835; Faust or the Demon of the Drachenfels produced at Sadler’s Wells 15 Sep. 1842; wrote the first few numbers of Punch with Henry Mayhew and 4 others 17 July 1841 et seq.; edited The Squib June to Dec. 1842 30 numbers; played Hamlet at Park theatre New York 11 May 1843; built the first theatre at Memphis; editor and owner of The Age newspaper; author of The Bottle, a poem, New York 1848; sometimes used name of Harry Plunkett as a stage name; founded the Actors’ Fund; produced many plays; spent 23 years in America; author of The Fairy Circle, The Sisters, Glory, Orson and other pieces all produced in England. d. 25 Dec. 1889. bur. Fulham cemetery 30 Dec.

GRATTAN, Mrs. Henry Plunkett (dau. of Mr. M’Phain). b. London 1811; acted in the provinces and then at Garrick theatre, London; made first appearance in America at St. Charles theatre, New Orleans, as lady Anne in Richard iii, 1836; at the new Chatham theatre, America, was the original Madelon in the Carpenter of Rouen 16 Nov. 1840. m. (1) H. P. Grattan; sang in the role of Pollio in Norma at Adelphi, London Oct. 1842; m. (2) Mr. Barker; m. (3) Mr. Madison; returned to America, at Chatham theatre 8 July 1850, retook name of Mrs. Grattan when appearing as Amelia in Wild Oats; travelled throughout the United States and the West Indies playing chief roles in standard dramas; final engagement at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 18 Sept. 1876 in Led Astray. d. 101 West Twenty-ninth st. New York 14 Dec. 1876. Era 7 Jany. 1877 p. 5; The Squib 22 Oct. 1842 p. 92.

GRATTAN, James (eld. son of right hon. Henry Grattan 1746–1820). b. 7 April 1787; cornet 20 light dragoons 9 Aug. 1810; lieut. 9 light dragoons 4 July 1811 to 18 Aug. 1814 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for co. Wicklow 1821–41; P.C. Ireland 1841. d. Tinnehinch, co. Carlow 21 Oct. 1854.

GRATTAN, John. Ensign 18 foot 8 July 1813, lieut. col. 25 May 1853 to 31 July 1854 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 1 May 1868 to death; L.G. 15 Sep. 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Brussels 29 April 1871 aged 75.

GRATTAN, Thomas Colley (son of Colley Grattan, solicitor). b. Dublin 1792; settled at Bordeaux 1818, Paris 1820?; proprietor and editor of The Paris monthly review Jany. 1822 to April 1823, 15 numbers; produced Ben Nazir the Saracen, a tragedy at Drury lane 21 May 1827; removed to Brussels 1828; British consul to state of Massachusetts 1839–46; assisted Lord Ashburton in treaty of Washington 1842; author of Highways and byways or Tales of the roadside 2 vols. 1823, second ser. 3 vols. 1825, third ser. 3 vols. 1827; The history of the Netherlands 1830; Legends of the Rhine 3 vols. 1832; Civilised America 2 vols. 1859, and about 15 other works. d. Jermyn st. London 4 July 1864. Dublin Univ. Mag. Dec. 1853, pp. 658–65, portrait; Colburn’s New Monthly xxxii, 77–80 (1831), portrait.

GRATWICKE, William Gratwicke Kindlesides (son of rev. William Kindlesides, R. of Angmering, Sussex, who took name of Gratwicke, d. 1820). b. Angmering 1794; began racing 1825; won the Derby with Frederick 1825, with Merry Monarch 1845; won One thousand guineas and Oaks with Governess 1858. d. Ham near Arundel 5 Dec. 1862. Baily’s Mag. iv, 55–9 (1862), portrait; Sporting Review xlix, 179–80 (1863); Sporting Times 11 July 1885, p. 2.

GRAVATT, William (son of Wm. Gravatt lieut. col. R.E. who d. 13 June 1851 aged 80). b. Gravesend 14 July 1806; apprenticed to Bryan Donkin C.E. 1822; placed under I. K. Brunel; F.R.S. 1832, F.R.A.S. 1832; worked on the Thames tunnel 1826–32 when works stopped; engineer to Calder and Hebble navigation 1832; examined the county for original scheme of London and Dover railway 183-; invented a level which generally bears his name but which he called the ‘dumpy,’ also the level staff universally employed, and a pocket instrument called a nadir; traced the line for the Bristol and Exeter railway 75 miles in about a month 184-; printed “Companion to the mountain barometer,” which was translated into Chinese; A.I.C.E. 1826, M.I.C.E. 1828. d. 15 Park st. Westminster 30 May 1866, having been poisoned by an overdose of morphia given inadvertently by his nurse. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 565–75 (1867).

GRAVES, Francis (son of Robert Graves d. 1825 and grandson of Robert Graves of Catherine st. Strand, both of them printsellers). b. 25 Dec. 1802; with A. Molteno of Pall Mall at age of 13, removed to M. Colnaghi’s in Cockspur st. 1826; printseller with his brother, Henry Graves 1838 to death. d. 6 Pall Mall, London 15 Oct. 1859.

GRAVES, James (eld. son of rev. Richard Graves, R. of Coolcullen). b. Kilkenny 11 Oct. 1815; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1839; C. of Skeirke, Queen’s county 1840–46; C. of St. Patrick’s, Kilkenny 1846–54; R. of Maine 1854–60; V. of Kilsheelan, Clonmel 1860–66; R. of Inisnag near Kilkenny 1863 to decease; with J. G. A. Prim established Kilkenny archæological soc. 1849, which became R. Hist, and Archæol. assoc. of Ireland 1869; awarded civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1878; had finest collection of ferns in Ireland; edited A Roll of the proceedings of the King’s council in Ireland 1392–3, (Rolls Series 1877); author of A brief memoir of the Lady E. Fitzgerald, The Fair Geraldine 1874; with G. A. Prim issued History of cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny 1857. d. Inisnag 20 March 1886. Journal R. Historical Assoc. of Ireland vii, 465–69 (1887); Academy 25 Dec. 1886, p. 427.

GRAVES, Rev. John. Scholar of Christ’s coll. Cam. 1852; B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858; lecturer in history Trinity coll. Battersea 1857–59; assist. master Kensington gram. sch. 1859–61; classical master Cheltenham coll. 1861–74; chaplain to H.M. at Kensington palace 1884 to death. d. Kensington palace 4 March 1888 aged 56.

GRAVES, John Crosbie. b. 19 Sep. 1820; cornet 3 Bombay cavalry 3 May 1837; lieut. col. Bombay cavalry 1866, col. 1878 to death; L.G. 7 May 1882; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. d. Poonah 27 Nov. 1882.

GRAVES, John Thomas (eld. son of John Crosbie Graves of Dublin, barrister). b. Dublin 4 Dec. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1823, classical gold medallist and B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; incorporated in Oriel coll. Ox. 1830, M.A. 1831; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1830 and of Inner Temple 10 June 1831; professor of jurisprudence in Univ. coll. London 1839; examiner in laws in Univ. of London; F.R.S. 1839, member of council; assist. poor law commissioner 7 April 1846; poor law inspector 1847 to Feb. 1871; elucidated the subject of the logarithms of negative and imaginary quantities 1826, and sent contributions to Philos. Trans., British Association Reports and Philos. Mag.; bequeathed his mathematical library of 10,000 volumes and 5,000 pamphlets to Univ. coll. London. d. Cheltenham 29 March 1870. Proc. of royal society, xix, 27–28 (1871); University coll. Gazette, vol. i, No. 12, pp. 189–90.

GRAVES, John Woodcock (son of Joseph Graves, plumber). b. Wigton, Cumberland 9 Feb. 1795; worked with his uncle Geo. Graves a sign painter at Cockermouth; connected with woollen mills at Caldbeck; landed at Hobart Town, Tasmania, June 1833; invented a machine for preparing New Zealand flax; author of the hunting song D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray 1824 and other poems. d. Liverpool st. Hobart Town 17 Aug. 1886. Sidney Gilpin’s Songs of Cumberland (1866) 408–15; I.S. and D. News 30 Oct. 1886 pp. 182 190.

Note.—John Peel, hunter died 1854. Graves wrote on hearing of the death of his friend 2 poems “Monody on John Peel” and “At the grave of John Peel.”

GRAVES, Rev. Richard Hastings (son of Richard Graves, D.D., dean of Armagh 1763–1829). b. 1791; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1828; R. of Brigown, Cloyne 1812; preb. of Cloyne 30 July 1832; edited The whole works of Richard Graves, D.D., Dublin 4 vols. 1840; author of Daniel’s Great period of 2300 days discovered and determined 1854; Terminal synchronism of Daniel’s two principal periods 1858 and 10 other books. d. 118 Upper Leeson st. Dublin 26 Dec. 1877. Cotton’s Fasti Hibernici (1878) pp. xii, 27.

GRAVES, Robert (brother of Francis Graves 1802–59). b. Tottenham court road, London 7 May 1798; pupil of John Romney, line engraver 1812; studied in the life school, Ship yard, Temple Bar; exhibited 25 engravings at R.A. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1824–73; member of Soc. of British Artists, Suffolk st.; assoc. engraver of R.A. 1836; engraved Lord Byron after T. Phillips 1836, The Whiskey Still after Landseer 1842, the Hon. Mrs. Graham after Gainsborough 1866, the Blue Boy after Gainsborough 1868, and many other subjects besides engravings for books. d. 20 Grove ter. Highgate road, London 28 Feb. 1873. I.L.N. 8 March 1873 p. 235, 15 March pp. 247, 249, portrait; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii. 222–3 (1862).

GRAVES, Robert James (younger brother of Richard Hastings Graves 1791–1877). b. Dublin 27 March 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.B. 1818, M.D. 1841; spent 3 years visiting chief continental schools 1818–21; settled in Dublin 1821; one of founders of Park st. school of medicine 1821; one of physicians of Meath hospital 1821; professor of institutes of medicine to King and Queen’s college of physicians in Ireland 1827, president 1843 and 1844; started with Robert Kane Dublin Journal of medical science 1832 and was one of the editors to his death; F.R.S. 1849; substituted adequate nourishment and stimulants for the old lowering treatment in fevers; author of Clinical lectures 1834–35, 1836–7; A system of clinical medicine 1843; Clinical lectures 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1884, much praised by Trousseau the great French physician. d. 4 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 20 March 1853. Studies in physiology and medicine, ed. by W. Stokes (1863) pp. ix-lxxiii, portrait; Medical Times and Gazette, viii, 1–5 (1854); Dublin Univ. Mag. xix, 260–73 (1842), portrait.

GRAVES, Samuel Robert (2 son of William Graves of New Ross). b. Blackwell lodge, co. Kilkenny 1818; merchant and shipowner at Liverpool; chairman of Liverpool shipowners’ association 1856 and local marine board 1856; mayor of Liverpool 1860–61; M.P. for Liverpool 15 July 1865 to death, on 19 Nov. 1868 polled 16,766 votes, largest number polled by any borough member; commodore of Royal Mersey yacht club; author of A letter on National dangers 1860; A yachting cruise on the Baltic 1863. d. Euston hotel, Euston sq. London 18 Jany. 1873, personalty sworn under £180,000. I.L.N. l, 165, 166 (1867), portrait, lxii, 91, 113, 114 (1873), portrait.

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).

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.