Arthur Gray (Master of Jesus)

Arthur Gray[1] (28 September 1852[2] –12 April 1940[3]) was an English author, academic, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1912 until his death.[4]

Gray was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and Jesus College, Cambridge.[5] He was Fellow of Jesus from 1875 to 1885; Junior Proctor from 1885 to 1886; and Senior Tutor and Vice-Master from 1895 to 1912.[6]

As a writer, Gray is primarily known for his Gothic ghost short stories collected in 1919 in Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye, published under the pseudonym "Ingulphus".[5] Gray also wrote several works exploring the life of Shakespeare, and he was also the author of local history works dedicated to Cambridge and the University of Cambridge.

Gray had six sons with his wife Alice Honora Gell (born 1857), whom he married in 1882.[7] He was widowed in 1927 and died in the Master's Lodge in 1940 at the age of 87.

Selected bibliography

Some of Gray's work:[8]

  • Shakespeare's Son-in-Law (1939)
  • A Chapter in the Early Life of Shakespeare (1926)
  • Cambridge and Its Story (1912; also known as Cambridge Described
  • Cambridge
  • Cambridge university, an episodical history
  • How Shakespeare "purged" Jonson; a problem solved
  • Jesus college
  • Chapter in the early life of Shakespeare; Polesworth in Arden
  • History of Jesus College, Cambridge
  • Priory of Saint Radegund, Cambridge
  • Town of Cambridge
  • The earliest statutes of Jesus college, Cambridge, issued by James Stanley, Bishop of Ely, A. D. 1514-1515

Notes
  1. "Athenaeum". Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  2. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752-1900 Vol. iii. Gabb – Justamond, (1947) p180
  3. 'Deaths' The Times (London, England), Monday, Apr 15, 1940; pg. 1; Issue 48590
  4. "HSC". Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  5. Pardoe, Rosemary (1991). "Arthur Gray". Ghosts & Scholars. Haunted Library. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  6. "Gray, Arthur". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 20 December 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. gray-alice-h-fl-1881-1926-wife-of-arthur-gray
  8. "Gray, Arthur, 1852-1940 - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)".


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