About Henry Wray
Lived 1826 – 1900 (aged 73–74). Henry Wray was a British engineer.
Lieutenant-General Henry Wray (1 January 1826 – 6 April 1900) was a Royal Engineers officer who arrived in Fremantle on 12 December 1851 and was responsible for carrying out the construction plans for Fremantle Prison for Edmund Henderson.
Military career Henry Wray was born in Demerara, now Guyana on 1 January 1826. Wray became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey until his retirement in 1887, when he received the honorary rank of lieutenant-general. He died from pneumonia at Bournemouth on 6 April 1900, aged 74.
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British Army general
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Henry Wray was born in 1826 in Demerara.
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Henry Wray died on 6 April 1900.
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Henry Wray was an engineer.
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