About Wilson Gray
Lived 1813 – 1875 (aged 61–62). Wilson Gray was a politician and judge.
Moses Wilson Gray, known as Wilson Gray (1813 – 4 April 1875) was an Irish-born barrister, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and district judge in New Zealand.
Gray born in Claremorris, County Mayo, Ireland, the son of John Gray and his wife Elizabeth, née Wilson. The Land Convention, as it was called, met in Melbourne in 1857, and condemned the abortive Haines Land Bill then passing through the Lower House. Wilson Gray was elected the president of the Convention, which also passed resolutions in favour of manhood suffrage, equal electoral districts, abolition of property qualification, and payment of representatives. when he went to Otago, New Zealand, and became a district court judge.
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Australian politician
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Wilson Gray was born in 1813.
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Wilson Gray died on 4 April 1875.
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Wilson Gray was a politician and judge.
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