Arthur Gray (28 September 1852 –12 April 1940) was an English author, academic,

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Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's full name is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common name comes fr ...

from 1912 until his death. Gray was educated at

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and

. He was

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of Jesus from 1875 to 1885; Junior Proctor from 1885 to 1886; and Senior Tutor and Vice-Master from 1895 to 1912. As a writer, Gray is primarily known for his Gothic ghost short stories collected in 1919 in ''Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye'', published under the pseudonym "Ingulphus". Gray also wrote several works exploring the life of

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...

, and he was also the author of local history works dedicated to Cambridge and the University of Cambridge. Gray had six sons with his wife Alice Honora Gell (born 1857), whom he married in 1882. He was widowed in 1927 and died in the Master's Lodge in 1940 at the age of 87.

Selected bibliography

Some of Gray's work: * ''Shakespeare's Son-in-Law'' (1939) * ''A Chapter in the Early Life of Shakespeare'' (1926) * ''Cambridge and Its Story'' (1912; also known as ''Cambridge Described'' * ''Cambridge'' * ''Cambridge university, an episodical history'' * ''How Shakespeare "purged" Jonson; a problem solved'' * ''Jesus college'' * ''Chapter in the early life of Shakespeare; Polesworth in Arden'' * ''History of Jesus College, Cambridge'' * ''Priory of Saint Radegund, Cambridge'' * ''Town of Cambridge'' * ''The earliest statutes of Jesus college, Cambridge, issued by James Stanley, Bishop of Ely, A. D. 1514-1515''

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* 1852 births 1940 deaths Masters of Jesus College, Cambridge Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge People educated at Blackheath Proprietary School {{Christian-clergy-stub