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Gray, Herbert Branston; second son of Thomas Gray, Putney, Surrey, and St.Peter’s, Isle of Thanet, businessman, and Emily Mary, dau. of William Heath, Pennsylvania Castle, Isle of Portland, Dorset ; b.22 Apr 1851 ; ed Winchester Coll. and Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 4 Jun 1870, aged 19, scholar 1870-5 ; 1st cl.Cl.Mod.1872, 2nd cl.Lit.Hum.1874 ; BA 1874 ; MA 1877 ; BD and DD 1892 ; Assistant Master (Classics) Sep 1875 – Dec 1878 ; came under the influence of Dean Stanley ; ordained deacon 1877, priest 1878 (both London) ; Head Master, King Edward GS, Louth 1878-80 ; Head Master, Bradfield Coll. 1880-1910, also Warden and Chairman of Council 1881-1910 ; Vicar of St.Mary’s, Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk 1918-26 ; Rector of Lynton, Devon, from 1926 ; author, The Public Schools and the Empire, 1913, and other publications on educational topics and religion ; m. 20 Dec 1882 Selina, youngest dau. of Rev.Wharton Booth Marriott, Assistant Master, Eton College ; d. 5 Apr 1929. ODNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2022
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.