William Forbes Gray

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(1874–1950) was a Scottish journalist and author. In authorship he is usually referred to as W. Forbes Gray. He wrote extensively on

Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels '' Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy' ...

Life

He was born 14 April 1874. In 1894 he began working at the ''

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''. In 1898 he moved to be News Editor of the ''British Weekly''. In 1905 he became Sub-Editor of the ''Scottish Review''. In 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...

. His proposers were

Walter Biggar Blaikie Walter Biggar Blaikie FRSE DL LLD (23 November 1847 in Pilrig, Edinburgh – 3 May 1928) was a Scottish civil engineer, printer, historian and astronomer. Life Second of the seven recorded sons of Margaret Catherine Biggar and William Gard ...

, Robert Taylor Skinner,

James Haig Ferguson James Haig Ferguson LLD FRSE FRCPE FRCSEd (18 December 1862 – 2 May 1934) was a prominent Scottish obstetrician and gynaecologist. He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1929 to 1931 and was president of ...

and

David Fowler Lowe David Fowler Lowe FRSE LLD (11 January 1843 – 17 January 1924) was headmaster of George Heriot's School from 1880 to 1908. Life Lowe was born in Leslie, Fife on 11 January 1843. He was educated locally and then went to the University of Edin ...

. He died on 12 May 1950.

Publications

*''Books that Count: A Dictionary of Standard Books'' (1912) *''Some Old Scots Judges'' (1914) *''The Poets Laureate in England: Their History and Their Odes'' (1915) *''A Brief History of the Scottish Union & National Insurance Company'' (1924) *''Sir Walter Scott Quarterly'' (a short-lived periodical) (1927–28) *''Scott in Sunshine and in Shadow'' (1931) *''The Scott Centenary Handbook: A Guide to Edinburgh, Abbotsford and Rob Roy Country'' (1932) *''An Eighteenth Century Riding School'' (1935) *''General Index to the Book of the Old Edinburgh Club'' (1936) *''The Royal Exchange and other City Improvements'' (1938) *''Comments and Characters'' (1940) *''The Lands of Newington and Their Owners'' (1942) *''Notes on the History of Pilton'' (1945)

References

People associated with Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish non-fiction writers Walter Scott scholars 1874 births 1950 deaths {{Scotland-writer-stub