Lieutenant-General Sir George Gray, 3rd Baronet (c. 1710 – 14 February 1773) was an officer of the

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

Biography

He was a younger son of

Sir James Gray, 1st Baronet Sir James Gray, 1st Baronet, of Denne Hill, East Kent, (7 March 1667 – 27 October 1722), was an armiger, and a merchant- burgess of Edinburgh, who later managed the affairs in London of James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose. James Gray was a trader ...

, by his wife Hester Dodd.

George Edward Cokayne George Edward Cokayne, (29 April 1825 – 6 August 1911), was an English genealogist and long-serving herald at the College of Arms in London, who eventually rose to the rank of Clarenceux King of Arms. He wrote such authoritative and standar ...

, ''The Complete Baronetage'', vol. IV (1904
p. 445
He served for many years in the

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, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the

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in July 1749. On 19 July 1759 he was appointed colonel of the

61st Regiment of Foot The 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot to form the Gloucestershire Regiment ...

, and in 1761 he was promoted major-general. He transferred to the colonelcy of the

37th Regiment of Foot The 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in Ireland in February 1702. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot to become the Hampshire R ...

in 1768, and in 1770 he was promoted to lieutenant-general.

Richard Cannon Richard Cannon (1779–1865) was a compiler of regimental records for the British Army. Career On 1 January 1802 Cannon was appointed to a clerkship at the Horse Guards, and attained the grade of first-clerk in 1803. Under a Horse Guards order ...

, ''Historical Record of the Sixty-First, or the South Gloucestershire Regiment of Foot'' (1844
pp. 55-6
He was also an amateur architect. On 9 January 1773 he succeeded his brother James in the baronetcy, but he died the following month on 14 February, and was buried at Kensington on 17 February 1773. He had no children by his wife Charlotte, and the baronetcy became extinct. His widow died in 1788.

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