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Alec Gray (other)
Alec Gray may refer to: *Alec Gray (footballer) (1891–1945), Australian rules footballer *Alec Gray (horticulturalist) Alec Gray (1895-1986) was an English nurseryman and horticulturalist. He was notable as an authority on and breeder of daffodils, having developed over 100 new cultivars over a career spanning 60 years.Kingsbury, Noel, ''Garden Flora'', 2016, p.216 ... (1895–1986), English plantsman * Alec Gray (socialist), English socialist {{Hndis, Gray, Alec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Gray (footballer)
Alexander Leonard Gray (12 May 1891 – 26 July 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). Gray, a full-back, came to the Melbourne Football Club from Leopold. He made 16 appearances in his debut VFL season and seven more, including a Semi Final, before the war interrupted his career after 1915. Gray resumed at Melbourne in 1919 but the club had a poor year and he experienced a loss in each of his 13 games. References 1891 births 1945 deaths Melbourne Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) {{AFL-bio-1891-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Gray (horticulturalist)
Alec Gray (1895-1986) was an English nurseryman and horticulturalist. He was notable as an authority on and breeder of daffodils, having developed over 100 new cultivars over a career spanning 60 years.Kingsbury, Noel, ''Garden Flora'', 2016, p.216 In his free time he was also an enthusiastic archaeologist and poet. Life and career Alec Gray was born in London in 1895.''The Daffodil Journal'', v23 (1986), 110 During he First World War he served in the Royal Marines, which lead him to be awarded the Belgian Croix Gueve. After the First World War had ended he qualified in fruit growing and worked in North Devon before managing the Gulval Ministry Experimental Station near Penzance.Tompsett, ''Golden Harvest: The Story of Daffodil Growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly'", 2006, p.55 In the 1923 he moved on to work as a farm manager at the Duchy Farm on the Scilly Isles, which is where his passion for daffodils and the isle of Scilly was kindled. He established a small collection o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
