John R. Gray (minister)

Very Reverend John Rodger Gray (1913–1984) was a Scottish minister serving in Dunblane Cathedral who was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1977.[1]

Life
Dunblane Cathedral

He was born in Coatbridge in 1913 and educated locally before going to Glasgow High School. He studied economics at Glasgow University graduating in 1934. He then studied Divinity for three years, before doing further postgraduate study under a Commonwealth Fellowship at both Yale and Princeton in the United States.[2]

Returning to Britain in the Second World War, he served as a naval chaplain from 1941. After the war he Became minister of St. Stephen's Buccleuch in Glasgow. In 1960 the church merged with St Matthew's Blythswood.

In 1966 he was called to Dunblane Cathedral in Central Scotland.[3]

After eighteen years as minister of Dunblane Cathedral, he retired in April 1984.[4] He died three months later.

Family

In 1952 he was married to Dr Sheila Mary Gray (1928-2013) a doctor.[5] She was author of "Annus Mirabilis, Memories of a Moderator's Wife".[3]

Their three sons are the MP James Gray, the diplomat Charles Gray and Lt Cdr David Gray Royal Navy

Publications
  • Something to say to the Congregation : The Sermons of the Rev John R. Gray 1961-1983[2]

References
  1. "Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland genealogy project". geni_family_tree.
  2. "Inventory" (PDF). www.nls.uk.
  3. "Dr Sheila Gray". HeraldScotland.
  4. "Dr Gray retires". The Glasgow Herald. 9 April 1984. p. 3. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  5. Steven, J. D (2014). "Sheila Mary Gray". BMJ. 349: g5993. doi:10.1136/bmj.g5993.
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