John Gray, QC (1807 – 22 January 1875) was a British lawyer and legal writer. The younger son of George Gray, he was born in

Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...

where he was educated at Gordon's Hospital, before joining a firm of solicitors, Messrs White and Whitmore. He was

called to the bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...

in 1838, four years after being admitted to the

Middle Temple The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn an ...

. He

took silk In the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth countries, a King's Counsel ( post-nominal initials KC) during the reign of a king, or Queen's Counsel (post-nominal initials QC) during the reign of a queen, is a lawyer (usually a barrister or ...

in 1863 and was appointed Solicitor to the Treasury in 1871, serving until he died in 1875. He conducted the prosecution of the claimant in the infamous

Tichborne case The Tichborne case was a legal ''cause célèbre'' that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s. It concerned the claims by a man sometimes referred to as Thomas Castro or as Arthur Orton, but usually termed "the Claimant", to be t ...

.John Hutchinson (ed.), ''A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars with Brief Biographical Notices'' (Middle Temple, 1902), p. 105.

Publications

* ''The Country Attorney's Practice'' (1836)
6th ed.
(1845). * ''The Country Solicitor's Practice'' (1837)
4th ed.
(1845). * ''Law of Costs'' (1853).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gray, John 1807 births 1875 deaths Members of the Middle Temple English King's Counsel 19th-century King's Counsel British legal writers Treasury Solicitors