Primarily an Ornithologist but well known to entomologists as one of the Keepers at the Zoological Department at the British Museum (Natural History). His entomological writings were mainly on Lepidoptera but did include one or two notes about exotic beetles including a description of a new species of Goliathus (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 34. Gray was the brother of J.E.Gray (see below) and a friend of J.G.Children, whose collections he re-arranged. Gilbert (1977) lists seven obituaries and other notices to which may be added that in EMM., 9, 1872-73, pp.23-24. (MD 1/03)
Dates
8 July 1808 - 6 May 1872