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Charles Gray (explorer)
Charles Gray may refer to: * Charles Gray (Colchester MP) (1696–1782), member of parliament for Colchester, 1742–1755, 1761–1780 * Charles Gray (songwriter) (1782–1851), Royal Marines captain and songwriter * Charles McNeill Gray (1807–1885), American politician, mayor of Chicago, 1853–1854 * Charles Wing Gray (1845–1920), British member of parliament for Maldon, 1886–1892 * Charles Gray (New Zealand politician) (1853–1918), member of parliament for Christchurch North, 1905–1908 * Charlie Gray (1864–1900), American baseball pitcher * Charles Gray (Canadian politician) (1879–1954), mayor of Winnipeg, 1919–1920 * Charles H. Gray (1921–2008), American actor * Charles Gray (actor) (1928–2000), British actor * Sir Charles Gray (Scottish politician) (1929–2023), Scottish local politician and leader of Strathclyde Regional Council, 1986–1992 * Sir Charles Gray (judge) (1942–2022), English High Court judge * Charles Gray (diplomat) (born 1953), former B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gray (Colchester MP)
Charles Gray FRS (baptised 20 September 1696 in Colchester, Essex, England – 12 December 1782) was a lawyer, antiquary and Tory Member of Parliament for Colchester. Gray was baptised in 1696, the only son of George Gray, a glazier and local landowner, and his wife Elizabeth. He was educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School from 1702, before possibly spending some time at Cambridge University and entering Gray's Inn to become a lawyer in 1724. He was called to the bar in 1729 and became a bencher in 1737. Finally, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1754. In 1726 he married Sarah Creffield, née Webster, the well-off widow of Ralph Creffield, and after her death in 1751, in 1755 Gray married Mary, the daughter of Randle Wilbraham, Member of Parliament for Newton, Lancashire. Gray's political career was a long one; he served in five parliaments from 1742 to 1755 and 1761–1780, during the reigns of George II and George III. By the end of his term, however, Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gray (songwriter)
Charles Gray (1782–1851) was a Scottish captain in the Royal Marines, known as a songwriter. Life Gray was born at Anstruther, Fife, on 10 March 1782. His education and early training fitted him for the sea, and in 1805, through the influence of a maternal uncle, he received a commission in the Woolwich division of the Royal Marines. He was thirty-six years in the service, and retired on a captain's full pay in 1841. He spent the remainder of his days in Edinburgh. His associates included Robert Chambers, Patrick Maxwell, and David Vedder. Works Gray published in 1811 ''Poems and Songs'', which went into a second edition at the end of three years. In 1813, on a visit to Anstruther, he had joined in the formation of the Anstruther Musomanik Society through which, in the four years of its existence, members contributed to Scottish song. During his naval career, Gray had practised lyric composition, and when he retired in 1841 he published his second volume ''Lays and Lyrics' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles McNeill Gray
Charles McNeill Gray (June 13, 1807 – October 17, 1885) served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1853–1854) for the Democratic Party. Biography Charles McNeill Gray was born in Sherburne, New York on June 13, 1807. He arrived in Chicago on July 17, 1834, and took a job as a clerk for Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, later working for Peter Cohen, a retail merchant. By 1844 he was a candle maker with his own shop. He subsequently worked as a manufacturer, contractor and railroad man. He was elected mayor in 1853. He died at his home in Chicago on October 17, 1885, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Ir .... References External linksInaugural Address [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wing Gray
Charles Wing Gray (1845 – 23 November 1920) was a British farmer and a Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Maldon in Essex from 1886 to 1892. From 1885 to 1890 he served as a captain in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the Essex Regiment The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. ...."Mr. C. W. Gray." Times ondon, England24 Nov. 1920: 14. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 2 June 2014. References External links * 1845 births 1920 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1886–1892 19th-century British Army personnel Volunteer Force officers Essex Regiment officers People from Chelmsford Members of Parliament for Maldon {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1840s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gray (New Zealand Politician)
Charles Mathew Gray (1853 – 11 June 1918) was a New Zealand Independent Member of Parliament for Christchurch North, and Mayor of Christchurch. Early life Charles Gray was born in Geelong, Victoria, in Australia and came to New Zealand in 1862. Local body politics Gray was elected to the Christchurch City Council in 1885. Mayoral elections were held on 26 November 1890. The two candidates were the incumbent, Samuel Manning, and Gray, who received 492 and 665 votes, respectively. Gray was thus elected as the 17th mayor of Christchurch and was installed on 17 December 1890. He was mayor until the end of 1891. On 18 April 1904, he succeeded Henry Wigram as mayor, when he was declared elected unopposed. He served for one year, and his chief aims were beautifying the city, drainage, sanitation, lighting and high pressure water supply. Member of Parliament Charles Gray represented the Christchurch North electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives from the 1905 e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Gray
Charles A. Gray (June 1864 – June 1, 1900) was an American baseball pitcher. He pitched five games in Major League Baseball, four of them as a starting pitcher. Early life Gray was born in 1864 in Indianapolis. The first record of his playing organized baseball is in 1889 when he played for Danville of the Illinois–Indiana League. He also played for Youngstown of the Ohio State League in 1889. Career On April 23, 1890, Gray made his debut in Major League Baseball as a relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys of the National League. He was the winning pitcher in that game and was described as "a freak" by the '' Sporting Life''. He was billed as the team's pitcher "of six fingers and six toed fame." Gray made his debut at a time when the rosters of major league teams were depleted due to the formation of the Players' League. After his debut as a relief pitcher, Gray appeared in four games as a starter. On May 24, 1890, Gray gave up 11 bases on balls and was charged wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gray (Canadian Politician)
Charles Frederick Gray (17 December 1879 – 27 June 1954) was a Canadian politician, the 27th Mayor of Winnipeg in 1919 and 1920. Gray was born in London, England and moved to Canada, eventually settling in Winnipeg. In 1917, he joined the city's Board of Control, He successfully sought election as mayor the next year. His first year as mayor was marked by the Winnipeg General Strike in which he replaced much of the police force with special constables in an effort to control the protests, ending with a violent confrontation with striking workers on 21 June 1919, known as "Bloody Saturday". He was re-elected mayor in November 1919, getting more votes than his Labour opponent Seymour Farmer. presiding over a Citizen's Committee-dominated (anti-labour) city government. He did not run for re-election in 1920, the first city election held using Single Transferable Voting Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles H
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gray (actor)
Charles Gray (born Donald Marshall Gray; 28 August 1928 – 7 March 2000) was an English actor and voice artist who was well known for roles including the arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film '' Diamonds Are Forever''; Dikko Henderson in a previous Bond film, '' You Only Live Twice''; Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft Holmes in ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''; and The Criminologist in ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show''. Early life Gray was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, the son of surveyor Donald Gray (died 1975), who had served as a Captain in the Royal Engineers, and Maude Elizabeth (née Marshall). Gray attended Bournemouth School alongside Benny Hill, whose school had been evacuated to the same buildings, during the Second World War. Some of his friends remember that his bedroom walls were plastered with pictures of film stars. Stage career By his mid-twenties, Gray had left his first job as a clerk for an estate agent to become an actor. He b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gray (Scottish Politician)
Sir Charles Ireland Gray (25 January 1929 – 10 February 2023) was a Scottish Labour Party politician. Life and career Charles Gray was born on 25 January 1929. He joined the Labour Party at age 16. Gray rose to become leader of Strathclyde Regional Council from 1986 to 1992 and President of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. In November 2013, Gray announced that he planned to vote 'Yes' in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum A referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom was held in Scotland on 18 September 2014. The referendum question was, "Should Scotland be an independent country?", which voters answered with "Yes" or "No". The "No" side w ..., and urged all Labour supporters to do the same. Gray died on 10 February 2023, at the age of 94. References 1929 births 2023 deaths Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Knights Bachelor Leaders of local authorities of Scotland Politicians awarded knighthoods Scottish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gray (judge)
Sir Charles Antony St John Gray (6 July 1942 – 3 March 2022) was a British barrister and judge, who specialised in intellectual property, copyright, privacy and defamation cases. As a judge, he presided over the trial of David Irving's libel lawsuit against Professor Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books over claims that Irving was a Holocaust denier; Gray delivered a 349 pages long judgment against Irving. Biography Gray attended Trinity College, Oxford, earning a bachelor's degree in 1961. He was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn and began his practice in 1967. Cases he tried include '' Crossman Diaries'', ''Saatchi v Saatchi & Saatchi'', ''Elton John v MGN'', '' Aldington v Tolstoy'', ''Aitken v Granada and Guardian''. He took silk in 1984 and was elected a bencher in 1993. Gray retired in 2008 although occasionally presided over the Queen's Bench until 2011. He served as an adjudicator in lawsuits against News Group Newspapers brought by people whose phones were hacked by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gray (diplomat)
John Charles Rodger Gray (born 1953) is a former British diplomat who served as Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps. Gray was educated at the University of Glasgow before joining the British Diplomatic Service in 1974. After two years at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office he was posted to Warsaw in 1976. Gray served as Head of the Middle East Department between 2002 and 2004. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2003 for services in connection with the 2003 invasion of Iraq. From 2005 to 2008 Gray was British Ambassador to Morocco, before serving as Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps between 2008 and 2014. On 17 December 2013 he was invested as a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order The Royal Victorian Order (french: Ordre royal de Victoria) is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria. It recognises distinguished personal service to the British monarch, Canadian monarch, Australian monarch, o .... Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
