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Andrew Gray (other)
Andrew Gray may refer to: Politics *Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray (1390–1469), Scottish diplomat and noble * Andrew Gray (senator) (died 1849), Democratic-Republican member of the Delaware Senate, 1817–1821 *Andrew C. Gray (1804–1885), entrepreneur and Whig delegate to the Delaware Constitutional Convention of 1853 Sports * Andy Gray (cricketer) (born 1974), former Yorkshire and Derbyshire cricketer *Andy Gray (footballer, born 1955), Scottish footballer, commentator, and beIN Sports pundit *Andy Gray (footballer, born 1964), English footballer and former coach of the Sierra Leone national team * Andy Gray (footballer, born 1973), English footballer who played for Reading and Leyton Orient *Andy Gray (footballer, born 1977), Scottish footballer who played for clubs including Leeds United, Nottingham Forest, Barnsley and Bradford City Others *Andrew Gray (17th-century divine) (1633–1656), Scottish divine * Andrew Gray (19th-century divine) (1805–1861), Scottish Presbyte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray
Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray (c. 1390–1469) was a Scottish nobleman, politician and diplomat. He was succeeded in the title by his grandson. Biography He was the only son of Sir Andrew Gray (d. 1445) of Fowlis, Perthshire, by his first wife Janet, daughter of Sir Roger de Mortimer, whom he married in 1377.Burke's ''Peerage and Baronetage'', 76th edition, p. 894, (London, 1914). In 1424 he was accepted by the English government as one of the hostages for the payment of the ransom of James I of Scotland, apparently in place of his father, whose estate was estimated at the time as being worth six hundred merks annually. His father presented a letter to the English government, in which the hostage is said to be his only son and heir, promising fidelity on behalf of his son, and also that he would not disinherit him on account of his acting as a hostage. He was sent to Pontefract Castle, and afterwards committed to the Tower of London, where he remained until 1427, when he was exchan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gray (surveyor)
Andrew Belcher Gray (July 6, 1820 – April 16, 1862) was an American surveyor. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, he studied engineering and surveying under Andrew Talcott, and surveyed the Mississippi Delta with him in 1839, before joining the Texas Navy as a midshipman. Remaining in the Republic of Texas, he was appointed a surveyor for the Texas-U.S. boundary commission led by Memucan Hunt. In 1844–1846, he served as U.S. government mineral surveyor, mapping the rich copper country of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan and leasing out the government's mineral lands. He returned to the new state of Texas during the Mexican–American War. Following the war, he served as chief surveyor of the US–Mexican commission which established the border after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. When the U. S. Commissioner, John Bartlett, a Yankee, gave away the Rio Grande's Mesilla Valley because of a map error, which had been disputed by the Mexican Delegation, the fiery Southerner Gray oppos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Gray (actor)
Andy Gray (13 September 1959 – 18 January 2021) was a Scottish actor and writer from Perth, Scotland. He appeared on stage and TV, including starring roles in the BBC series ''Naked Video'', ''City Lights'', and ''River City''. Education He trained in Drama at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University from 1976 to 1979. Career Gray starred in the BBC Radio Scotland sketch show ''Naked Radio'', and its later television counterpart ''Naked Video''. He then became well known as the appropriately named "Chancer", best friend and source of problems to Willie Melvin (Gerard Kelly) in the 1987 sitcom ''City Lights''. He was well known for pantomiming, usually co-writing the script and often alongside other former ''City Lights'' cast members. He appeared opposite Kelly in a touring production of ''The Odd Couple''. He took the starring role in a Channel 4 proposed comedy pilot show ''Miles is Better'' where he played a very enthusiastic burglar alarm salesman (Miles). Gray worked ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoots & Hellmouth
Hoots & Hellmouth is an American band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. History Hoots & Hellmouth was formed in 2005 by Sean Hoots and Andrew Gray. The formation of the band was partially a reaction to and a rebellion against the grandiose rock-star attitude of modern rock bands, with which they were previously involved. The group was initially started as a duo, playing roots music intended to evoke the revival feeling. They eventually expanded to four members after adding Pilot Round The Sun guitarist Rob Berliner and John Branigan. Most of the time, they play without a live drummer, instead stomping and using hand percussion such as tambourines. The group's self-titled debut appeared in 2007 on MAD Dragon Records, distributed by Warner. In early 2008, the album, ''Hoots & Hellmouth'', won in The 7th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best College Record Label Album. Their follow-up album, ''The Holy Open Secret'', was released in 2009. On Friday, August 21, as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gray (zoologist)
Andrew Gray is a British zoologist, teacher and conservationist. Biography Andrew Gray was appointed Curator of Herpetology at Manchester Museum in September 1995. Here he established ‘The Vivarium’, a free to the public purpose-built facility dedicated to the conservation of tropical amphibians. Gray's interest in amphibians and reptiles began from a very early age. During his career as a professional herpetologist he has discovered new species and established conservation initiatives to save some of the rarest frogs in the world, for example the critically endangered lemur leaf frog. Gray is an authority on frogs of the Phyllomedusinae genus ''Cruziohyla''. He described the tadpole of ''Cruziohyla calcarifer'' and in 2018 described the new species ''Cruziohyla sylviae'' which is named after his first grandchild Sylvia Beatrice Gray. Gray's conservation efforts have mainly focused in Central America, where he has initiated multi-disciplined collaborative projects, develope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gray (writer)
Andrew Neil Gray (born 1968) is a Scottish-born Canadian short story writer and novelist. In 2014, he was the Creative Writing Program Coordinator at the University of British Columbia, and founder and director of the university's low-residency Master of Fine Arts program. Early life and education Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Gray moved with his family to Canada at the age of eight. While completing an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia he served as executive editor of the periodical ''Prism''. He graduated in 1996. Career Gray's short story, "Heart of the Land", was included in ''The Journey Prize Anthology'' in 2000. Gray published his first book of short stories, ''Small Accidents'', in 2001. It contained stories in which medical emergencies lead to interesting life experiences, and was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2002. It was also shortlisted for an Independent Publisher Book Award in Fiction in 2003. Gray edited the 2001 sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gray (anthropologist)
Andrew Gray (21 July 1955 in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom – 7 May 1999, near Vanuatu) was a British anthropologist and activist for the rights of indigenous peoples. Life Gray graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1973 and received a PhD from the University of Oxford in 1983 for his work studying the Arakmbut people of the Peruvian Amazon. He then became director of the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), a post he held for six years. After leaving the IWGIA in 1989, he continued to act as a consultant for them and for related organisations such as the World Rainforest Movement, the International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Forest Peoples, the Gaia Foundation and Anti-Slavery International. Although he lectured at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Oxford, Gray avoided a conventional academic career and never took up a full-time research post. He continued to publish academic work, most notably ''The Arakmbut of Amazonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gray (physicist)
Andrew Gray (2 July 1847 – 10 October 1925) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. Life Born in Lochgelly, Fife, the son of John Gray, he was educated at Lochgelly School and then studied at the University of Glasgow (MA 1876), where he was appointed the Eglinton Fellow in Mathematics in 1876. Perhaps more significantly, however, in 1875 he became the assistant and private secretary of Professor William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin). He held this post – an official University one after 1880 – until 1884, when he was appointed Professor of Physics at the newly founded University College of North Wales. In 1883 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Lord Kelvin, James Thomson Bottomley, and John Gray McKendrick. He served as vice-president to the society 1906 to 1909. In June 1896 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society He remained in Bangor until 1899, when he returned to Glasgow to become the Professor of Natural Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gray (19th-century Divine)
Andrew Gray (2 November 1805 – 10 March 1861), was a Scottish presbyterian Anglicanism#Anglican divines, divine. Life Gray was born in Aberdeen on 2 November 1805, the son of William Gray. He went first to a school kept by Gilbert, father of Forbes Falconer, and afterwards to Marischal College, where he graduated MA in 1824, and passed through the theological course (1824–8). He was licensed to preach by the Aberdeen presbytery 25 June 1829, and was ordained as minister of a chapel-of-ease at Woodside, Aberdeen, Woodside, near Aberdeen, on 1 Sept. 1831. Gray was from the first an :wikt:orthodox, orthodox evangelical, a vigorous supporter of reform in the Church of Scotland, and a pronounced enemy to all that savoured of Romish doctrine. He publicly defended the Anti-Patronage Society as early as 1825, and agitated for the Chapels Act, by which ministers of chapels-of-ease became members of presbyteries. In 1834 he was admitted under this act a member of the Aberdeen presbyt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gray (senator)
Andrew Gray (died 1849) was a Democratic-Republican politician, a member of the Delaware Senate from 1817 to 1821. He was from Mill Creek Hundred, in New Castle County. He was a trustee of the Academy of Newark, and in 1817 sponsored a bill to allow it to raise $50,000 by lottery in order to raise funds to establish a college. The lottery did not go ahead, and in January 1821 Gray sponsored a second bill to establish a college, as "Delaware College", to be funded by a tax on steamboats and stagecoaches. The prospect of these new taxes was exceptionally unpopular, and Gray was defeated by an anti-college "Independent Democratic" ticket in the 1821 elections by a 2-1 margin. When Newark College was finally established in 1833, his three sons were sent there. He was appointed president of the trustees in 1839, succeeding Thomas Clayton, and was replaced by Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert in April 1841. After being ousted as president, he sought an investigation of the fledgling colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gray (17th-century Divine)
Andrew Gray (1633–1656), was a Scottish divine. Gray was baptised on 23 August 1633. He was the son of Sir William Gray of Pittendrum, and Egidia Smith. He graduated from St Andrews University with an M.A. in 1651. He was licensed as a minister in 1653 and called on 5 September. He was ordained by the Protesters on 3 November 1653 but his ministry was a short one. He died on 8 February 1656. Early life Gray was born in a house still standing on the north side of the Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, in August 1633 (bap. reg. 23). He was fourth son and eleventh child in a family of twenty-one, his father being Sir William Gray of Pittendrum (died 1648), an eminent merchant and royalist, descended from Andrew, first lord Gray. His mother was Geils or Egidia Smyth, sister to Sir John Smith of Grothill, provost of Edinburgh from 1643 to 1646. Education Andrew in his childhood was playful and fond of pleasure; but while he was quite young his thoughts were suddenly given a serious turn by r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Gray (footballer, Born 1977)
Andrew David Gray (born 15 November 1977) is a former professional footballer who last managed Leeds United's under-18 team. He is the son of the former Scotland defender Frank Gray and nephew of Leeds United legend Eddie Gray. His cousin Stuart Gray was also a pro footballer. His son Archie is a young professional at Leeds United. Andy Gray started his career as a midfield player but later moved into a forward position. Gray began his career with Leeds United, and has also played for Nottingham Forest, Charlton Athletic, Bury, Preston North End, Oldham Athletic, Barnsley, Bradford City, Sheffield United, Sunderland and Burnley. He has also won two caps for Scotland, against Lithuania and New Zealand in 2003. Career Leeds United Gray was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. He signed for Leeds United which carried on the family tradition of his father Frank Gray and his uncle Eddie Gray. One of Gray's first senior appearances came for Leeds United in the 1996 League Cup f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
