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

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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 entitled to Call to the bar, call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple (with whi ...

. He

took silk A King's Counsel ( post-nominal initials KC) is a senior lawyer appointed by the monarch (or their viceregal representative) of some Commonwealth realms as a "Counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarch is a woman, the title is Qu ...

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.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