Samuel Brownlow Gray

Sir Samuel Brownlow Gray (27 April 1823[1] – 20 January 1910[2]) was a barrister in the Bermudas.

Life

Gray was born in St. George's, Bermuda, the son of Benjamin Charles Thomas Gray and Elizabeth Brownlow of Bermuda.[1] He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1847. He was Inspector of schools in the Bermudas from 1848, and was in May 1861 appointed Attorney-General of the Bermudas.[3] In May 1900, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Bermudas,[4] and he served as President of the Legislative Council. He stepped down from both positions in 1905.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in January 1888,[5] and knighted in the King's Birthday Honours November 1901.[6]

A keen tennis player, he helped introduce the game to Bermuda.[7]

Gray married, in 1851, Eliza Anne Trimingham, daughter of Hon. James H. Trimingham. They had two sons and three daughters (one died young). The eldest son, Sir Reginald Gray (1851-1935) was also a barrister and a politician in Bermuda. The elder daughter Bessie Eliza Brownlow Gray (1854-1925) was an accomplished watercolourist and poet.[8] The younger daughter Mary Gray was a keen tennis player.

He died in Hamilton, Bermuda, 20 January 1910.

References
  1. "Letters of Samuel Brownlow Gray". Bermuda Historical Quarterly: 98. 1945. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  2. "GRAY, Sir Samuel Brownlow", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
  3. "No. 22508". The London Gazette. 7 May 1861. p. 1944.
  4. "No. 27198". The London Gazette. 1 June 1900. p. 3498.
  5. "No. 25782". The London Gazette. 31 January 1888. p. 684.
  6. "No. 27389". The London Gazette. 20 December 1901. p. 8979.
  7. http://www.bermuda-attractions.com/bermuda_0002f4.htm
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-03-19. Retrieved 2014-03-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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