About Samuel Brownlow Gray
Lived 1823 – 1910 (aged 86). Samuel Brownlow Gray was a barrister.
Sir Samuel Brownlow Gray (27 April 1823 – 20 January 1910 ) was a barrister in Bermuda.
Life Gray was born in St. George's, Bermuda, the son of Benjamin Charles Thomas Gray and Elizabeth Brownlow of Bermuda.
In May 1900, he was appointed Chief Justice of Bermuda, and he served as President of the Legislative Council. He stepped down from both positions in 1905.
Honours He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in January 1888, and knighted in the King's Birthday Honours November 1901.
Personal life and death A keen tennis player, he helped introduce the game to Bermuda.
Gray married, in 1851, Eliza Anne Trimingham, daughter of Hon. James H. Trimingham. They had two sons and three daughters (one died young). The eldest son, Sir Reginald Gray (1851-1935), was also a barrister and a politician in Bermuda. Elder daughter, Bessie Eliza Brownlow Gray (1854-1925), was an accomplished watercolourist and poet.
Sir Samuel died in Hamilton, Bermuda on 20 January 1910.
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Chief Justice of Bermudas (1823-1910)
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Samuel Brownlow Gray was born on 27 April 1823.
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Samuel Brownlow Gray died on 20 January 1910.
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