NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Gray James (1770-1830) poet DNB: Gray, James (1770?-1830), schoolmaster, Church of England clergyman, and writer LBT ID: JaGray1830 | B/BAP: 1770 DIED: 1830-09-25 |
SOURCES: DNB | |
Scottish poet, the Latin master at Dumfries, where he taught the children of Robert
Burns. He was afterwards master of the Edinburgh High School (1801-22), James Hogg's
brother-in-law, and rector of Belfast Academy (1822). In 1826 he emigrated to
Bombay. | |