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Extract from "Scottish episcopal clergy, 1689-2000" by David M Bertie - Page 276. Contains a synopsis of the careers of both Tom Gray and his fatherWilliam Arthur Gordon Gray. (Kindly sent by Alastair Honeybun)
Rev Tom Gray's 30lb mounted pike, caught 1905 - auctioned 2008. (Kindly sent by Alastair Honeybun)
Rev Tom Gray in "dog-collar" and uniform of the Hungerford Volunteer Fire Brigade, c1920.
Rev Tom Gray in "dog-collar" and uniform of the Hungerford Volunteer Fire Brigade, c1920
Rev Tom Gray in his study in the Vicarage.
Rev Tom Gray in his study in the Vicarage.
From "Brasenose College Register, 1509 - 1909, Volume 1." (Kindly sent by Alastair Honeybun)
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