Edward Bray

Sir Edward Bray ( – ) was an English lawyer and judge who served as a judge in Birmingham and London and as Controller of Contracts in the Indian Army Headquarters during World War I. He played cricket during the 1870s.

Bray was born at Shere in Surrey in 1849, the son of Reginald Bray, a solicitor and Justice of the Peace. He was educated at Westminster School, where he played cricket in the school XI. He went on to study at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained cricket Blues in 1871 and 1872. Bray had already played for Surrey County Cricket Club and made his first-class cricket debut in 1870, and made a total of 30 first-class appearances between 1870 and 1879, the majority for his county side or Cambridge University. Bray died at Kensington in London in 1926 aged 76.