About Ernest Gray
Lived 1856 – 1932 (aged 75). Ernest Gray was a British politician and trade unionist.
Sir Ernest Gray (27 August 1856 – 6 May 1932) was a British educational reformer and Conservative politician.
Early life and educational work The son of William Gray, he attended primary school and St John's Training College, Battersea. By 1894 he had become headmaster of St Gabriel's School, Pimlico. He was elected as president of the National Union of Teachers.
Later life Gray retired from the London County Council in 1925, and was knighted for "political and public services" in the same year. He died in Hampstead, aged 73, in May 1932 and was cremated at Golders Green.
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British politician (1856-1932)
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Ernest Gray was born on 27 August 1856.
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Ernest Gray died on 6 May 1932.
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Ernest Gray was a politician and trade unionist.
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