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GRAY. Badajoa; of Capt. Wm. Gray, who died of wounds received in Canada; of Major Owen Wynne Gray, of the 62nd, who fell in action; and of Hugh Gray, who lost his life during the Burmese war. He is uncle of the present Governor of South Australia.

This officer entered the Navy, 30 April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 50, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney, bearing the flag of Sir Erasmus Gower, Governor of Newfoundland, from which place he returned to England in March, 1807. He re-embarked (having been intermediately employed in the study of navigation), 3 Jan. 1807, on board the 28, Capt. Thos. Smyth, and during the next two years was actively engaged on the coast of France, where, besides blockading the ports of Cherbourg and St. Malo, he joined in many cutting-out affairs, contributed much to the obstruction of the enemy’s coasting-trade, and assisted at the capture of a privateer. Becoming Midshipman, then, of the 36, Capts. Thos. Manby and Jas. Giles Vashon, Mr. Gray presently accompanied the former officer in supposed pursuit of two French frigates to Davis Strait. On his return to Europe, after a fruitless exposure of several weeks to many severe hardships, and a prolonged stay on the coast of Labrador, he accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren, and, on 11 Aug. 1809, assisted in forcing the passage between the batteries of Flushing and Cadsand. Prior to sailing in the for the West Indies, Mr. Gray next, in one of that frigate’s boats, and while in attendance on the King off Weymouth, assisted in saving the royal barge; an occasion on which the late Sir Harry Neale lost his son. In Feb. 1810, having arrived in the West Indies, he there joined the 32, Capt. John Fyffe, and (with the exception of a brief attachment, in the autumn of 1811, to the  28, guard-ship in the river Thames) he continued to serve on that station, both in the  and in the  38, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Stirling,  64, Capt. Douglas, and  6, Lieut. Commander Rich. Augustus Yates, until June, 1813. During the period of his servitude in the latter vessel, Mr. Gray was thrice placed in charge of prizes of great value, the whole of which he succeeded in conducting through the difficult and dangerous navigation which leads into, New Providence. On his return home with Vice-Admiral Stirling, in the 74, he was ordered to join the  74, bearing the flag in North America of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, by whom he was invested, 29 July, 1814, with the command, as Sub-Lieutenant, of the advice-vessel. After witnessing the ensuing capitulation of Alexandria, we find him leading Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon’s squadron down the Potomac, and effecting the destruction, during the descent, of one of the enemy’s forts. Having further attended the expedition to Baltimore, he was next employed in covering a foraging party at Windmill Point, where he landed and, with only 24 men, defeated a large detachment of American militia, but not without receiving a slight sword-wound on the elbow, and two buckshot in the leg. In reward for the zeal, diligence, and activity he had displayed in the performance of these services, he was promoted by Sir Alex. Cochrane to the rank of Lieutenant 3 Sept. 1814. After the attack upon Cumberland Island Mr. Gray, who had previously shared in the operations against Crany Island,. proceeded to Bermuda with despatches for the Governor, Sir Jas. Cockburn. While there he had the good fortune to recover the Countess of Harcourt East Indiaman, which had been abandoned by the persons in charge of her, and which, with the assistance of the, who subsequently came up, he brought into port. Sir Alex. Cochrane, after this, appointed him to the command, 22 April, 1815, of the 14, on leaving which vessel he successively joined the  16, Capt. John Willson, and  38, Capt. Sam. Jackson. He returned home from North America in Aug. 1816, on board the, having been officially promoted by commission dated 9 Feb. 1815, and has since been on half-pay.

He married, 8 March, 1820, Anne, eldest daughter of Thos. Lennon, Esq., of Colehill House, late High Sheriff for co. Longford, and has issue two sons and two daughters. His youngest son is a Midshipman in the R.N.

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entered the Navy, 10 March, 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, employed in North America and the West Indies. From May, 1815, until the summer of 1820, when he passed his examination, he officiated, as Midshipman, on the Home, North American, and West India stations, in the 10, Capt. Geo. Truscott, 24, Capt. Sam. Chambers, and 36, Capt. Eras. Newcombe.

He continued from the latter date to serve in the, as Mate, until May, 1821, and then joined the 18, Capt. Thos. Gill. In the summer of 1829, after an interval of nearly four years, he returned to the West Indies on board the 18, Capt. Chas. Deare. He was there appointed Acting-Lieutenant, 4 April, 1830, of the 50, bearing the flag of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, but left that ship on the occasion of his official promotion, which took place 12 July following, and has not since been afloat. He married, 28 Oct. 1830, Eleanor Charlotte, daughter of the late W. A. Pengree, Esq., of Lloughor, Glamorganshire.

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(b) was born 5 Nov. 1787, and died 18 Sept. 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 15 Sept. 1806, as A.B., on board the 16, Capt. Geo. Trollope. After cruizing for some time in the North Sea he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where he became Master’s Mate of the 16, Capts. John Brett Purvis and Lord Balgonie, with the latter of whom, and with Capts. G. W. H. Knight and Sir Thos. John Cochrane, he served, from Aug. 1810 until 8 May, 1815, in the 36, and  38, latterly on the American station. He then went on half-pay, having been advanced to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 10 Feb. 1815; and, with the exception of a servitude, from 7 Feb. 1829, until 31 Dec. 1830, in the Coast Guard, was not afterwards employed.

Lieut. Gray has left a family of seven children. – Coplands and Burnett.

 GRAY. 

(b) was born 9 April, 1793. This officer entered the Navy, 29 April, 1808, as Midshipman, on board the bomb, Capt. Thos. Rich. Toker, stationed in the Baltic, where he accompanied the same officer into the 18. In Feb. 1813 he joined the 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, employed off the coast of North America; and, in June, 1815, the month in which he passed his examination, he became Acting-Lieutenant of the 36, commanded in the West Indies by Capts. Fanshawe, Tait, and Mackellar. Between Sept. 1818 and the early part of 1825, Mr. Gray was employed, chiefly as Mate, in the and, flag-ships at Jamaica and Portsmouth of Sir Home Popham and Sir Geo. Campbell, 42, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Robt. Mends on the west coast of Africa, 18, Capt. Fras. Fead, stationed in the Channel, and 20, Capt. Wm. Jardine Purchas, on the African coast. On 1 July, 1825, he was confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the 36, Commodore Chas. Bullen, employed on the station last mentioned, where, as he had done while belonging to the, he commanded, a tender at the capture of a slave-vessel. He has been on half-pay since 6 April, 1826. – Messrs. Ommanney.

