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James Ray (other)
James Ray may refer to: *James Ray (historian) (), English historian of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 *James B. Ray (1794–1848), governor of Indiana * James Enos Ray Jr. (1874–1934), American politician * James Davis Ray Jr. (1918–1990), American botanist * James Earl Ray (1928–1998), American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. *Jim Ray (basketball) (born 1934), American basketball player * James Ray (singer) (1941–), R&B singer in the early 1960s * James Edwin Ray (born 1941), U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and Vietnam-era prisoner-of-war *Jim Ray (1944–2005), American baseball player *James Ray (basketball) (1957–2023), American basketball player *James Arthur Ray (born 1957), American professional speaker and author convicted of negligent homicide in 2011 * Jimmy Ray (born 1970), English musician *James Ray (rock musician) (), American rock singer and band-leader, founding member of James Ray and The Performance, James Ray's Gangwar, The MK Ultra, and his current band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ray (historian)
James Ray was an English volunteer in the Hanovarian army, most notable for his chronicle of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, ''A Complete History of the Rebellion in 1745: From its first rise, in 1745, to its total suppression at the glorious battle of Culloden, in April 1746'' (1749, printed by John Jackson, Petergate, York). Ray was born in Whitehaven, Cumberland. He marched to join the royal garrison at Carlisle in the autumn of 1745 at the time when Charles Edward Stuart's army was marching from Edinburgh. However Carlisle surrendered to the Jacobites before Ray reached the city, and Ray followed the Jacobite army to Derby. The information he gleaned from this expedition he reported to the Duke of Cumberland, whose forces he met at Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |