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9 unusual facts about Gray’s Inn


Alan Grieve

Alan Grieve joined the well established firm of Gray's Inn solicitors Taylor & Humbert in 1958 after gaining commercial, city and merger and acquisition experience as an assistant solicitor at Slaughter and May.

Edmund Gennings

He and Polydore Plasden were seized by Richard Topcliffe and his officers whilst in the act of saying Mass in the house of Saint Swithun Wells at Gray's Inn in London on 7 November 1591 and was hanged, drawn and quartered outside the same house on 10 December.

Edward Long

He became a law student in 1752 at Gray's Inn, and from 1757 until 1769 he was resident in Jamaica, during which period he explored inside the Riverhead Cave, the Runaway Bay Caves and the Green Grotto.

Henry Walpole

He was born at Docking, Norfolk, in 1558, the eldest son of Christopher Walpole, by Margery, heiress of Richard Beckham of Narford, and was educated at Norwich School, Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Gray's Inn.

John Gennings

The brothers separated soon after, and Edmund continued his short ministry until he was arrested on 7 November 1591, after saying Mass in the house of Swithun Wells at Gray's Inn.

Selwyn Lloyd

After this he concentrated on a legal career having been admitted to Gray's Inn in 1926.

Sidney Nelson Crowther

He was the son of Alfred H. Crowther, a solicitor, of Gray's Inn and Mary Crowther.

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 9th Baronet

Sir (Robert William Herbert) Watkin Williams-Wynn, 9th Baronet, KCB, DSO, of Bodelwyddan in the County of Flint, and of Gray's Inn in the county of Middlesex (1862 – 1951), was a Welsh soldier and landowner.

Some Do Not …

The two brothers walk from Gray's Inn to Whitehall, speaking candidly, as Christopher disabuses Mark about the rumours defaming him and Valentine.


Alfred M. Gray, Jr.

After his Vietnam War tour, Gray served as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, Battalion Landing Team 1/2; the 2nd Marine Regiment; the 4th Marine Regiment; and Camp Commander of Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan.

Ambrose Bury

He was educated at the Liverpool Institute, the Royal School in Raphoe, Dublin High School, Trinity College, and the King's Inn in Dublin, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1890 and a Master of Arts in 1893.

Betula populifolia

Like other North American birches, gray birch is highly resistant to the Bronze birch borer (Agrilus anxius).

Bowie Railroad Buildings

The buildings have been restored to the Pennsylvania Railroad livery of gray with burgundy trim, and are being maintained by the City of Bowie Museum Division, and supported by the Huntington Heritage Society as a community museum.

Christopher Layer

Soon after this he quarrelled with his master, went up to London, and qualified himself under Hadley Doyley, an attorney of Furnival's Inn.

Craig Cobb

In 2003 he relocated to Frost, West Virginia, where he opened a grocery store and subsequently registered a business called "Gray's Store, Aryan Autographs and 14 Words, L.L.C."

Curse of the Fly

Martin Delambre (Baker) is driving to Montreal one night when he sees a young girl by the name of Patricia Stanley (Gray) running in her underwear.

Darlene Gray

Darlene Gray is a stripper and actress who appeared in Russ Meyer's 1966 film Mondo Topless.

Dave Gray

David Alexander Gray (born January 7, 1943 in Ogden, Utah) is an American former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1964 season.

Electoral division of Drysdale

It covers 12 km², encompassing north-western suburban areas of Palmerston including the CBD and the suburbs of Driver, Durack, Gray and Yarrawonga.

F. W. Meacham

It was later arranged for Glenn Miller's swing band by Jerry Gray, and was also arranged by composer Morton Gould.

Flag of the Colony of Aden

A navy blue flag with the Union jack in the top left corner, it featured a badge like that of colonial Zanzibar, with a two-masted Arab dhow sailing on turquoise waters, designed by George Kruger-Gray of the Royal Mint.

Francis Forcer the Younger

He had been sent to Oxford, entered Gray's Inn on 8 July 1696, and was called to the bar in 1703.

Frank Gray

Francis Tierney 'Frank' Gray (born 27 October 1954 in Castlemilk, Scotland) is a Scottish football manager and former footballer.

Gray County Wind Farm

Gray County Wind Farm near Montezuma, Kansas is the largest wind farm in Kansas and the largest in the United States not mandated by a state regulatory commission.

Gray Panthers

The Gray Panthers is an organization in the United States, which was founded in 1970 by Maggie Kuhn in response to her forced retirement at age 65.

Gray's monitor

It is well known for its diet, which consists primarily of ripe fruit, especially Pandanus.

Gray's paradox

In 2009, researchers from the National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan introduced new concepts of “kidnapped airfoils” and “circulating horsepower” to explain the swimming capabilities of the swordfish.

Hogan Lovells

Soon after formation, the firm moved to Thavies Inn at Holborn Circus and later to Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street, before moving to 21 Holborn Viaduct in October 1977.

Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle

Type locality: "India, fl. Ganges, Penang"; restricted by Smith (1931:162) to "Fatehgarh, Ganges," India = "India: Ganges; Futtaghur" (Gray 1864: 92)

Jack Whitten

Whitten is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York; Zeno X gallery in Antwerp, Belgium; and Guido Maus, beta pictoris gallery / Maus Contemporary in Birmingham, AL.

James Clinton

His second wife was Mrs. Mary Gray, and his children with her included James G. Clinton, who served in Congress.

Jane P. Gray

Jane P. Gray is a North Carolina judge and candidate for the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 2010 election.

John Rzeznik

"Men of War" - with Steve Morse & Michael Lee Jackson (original version from the Gillan album, Double Trouble) - Gillan's Inn (2006)

Kathelin Gray

Gray co-founded the October Gallery in 1978, a charitable trust centred on an avant-garde, multicultural art gallery in Bloomsbury, London.

Kenneth J. Gray

Gray was elected as a Democrat to the 84th and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1955, until his resignation December 31, 1974.

Kiln House

An early version of Kirwan's instrumental "Earl Gray", entitled "Farewell", was later released on the compilation The Vaudeville Years.

Little Pine State Park

Below this is the late Devonian and early Mississippian Huntley Mountain Formation, which is made of relatively soft grayish-red shale and olive-gray sandstone.

Margaret Herbison

She was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire at the 1945 general election, defeating the Conservative incumbent, future Deputy Speaker of the House William Anstruther-Gray.

Nintendo 64 color variants

A Limited Edition Star Wars bundle, available during the time of the release of the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace came bundled with Star Wars Episode I: Racer and a standard gray console.

Northern Foods

In 2005 the corporate headquarters was moved to Leeds, while Evesham Foods and the London Road site of Cavaghan & Gray in Carlisle were both closed.

Parliamentary leader

Herb Gray served as parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party of Canada during the lead-up to the 1990 Liberal leadership convention despite the fact that outgoing party leader John Turner still sat in the House of Commons; as the convention was won by Jean Chrétien, who was not a sitting Member of Parliament, Gray continued in the role until Chrétien could run in a by-election.

Salem Orchid

The line-up at this time consisted of Jason Mendonça (Vocals and Guitar), Steve Wood (Guitar), Dan Temple (bass guitar) and David Gray (Drums).

Schooner Hindu

Log books indicate the navy men painted her gray, lined her with depth charges, mounted a machine gun on her deck and engaged a German U-boat on more than one occasion.

Serge Dedina

He also initiated an international campaign that successfully stopped the Mitsubishi Corporation from destroying San Ignacio Lagoon—the world’s last undeveloped gray whale lagoon.

Shadows Wake Me

Although a novice songwriter, Doyle co-wrote many songs on the album, some with Myhr, and others with Chris Tait, Tim Welch, David Gray, and Anne Bourne.

Shark Vegas

Shark Vegas was a Berlin based New wave band, consisting of ex-Factory Records German representative, Mark Reeder (guitar/tapes/keyboards), Alistair Gray (vocals), Leo Walter (drums/percussion) and Helmut Wittler (bass/keyboards).

Steven Gray

Adyashanti (Steven Gray, born 1962), American spiritual teacher

Swimming to Cambodia

The soundtrack for this film was composed and performed by Laurie Anderson, who would also score Gray's follow-up film, Monster in a Box.

Talinum

Lewisia pygmaea (A.Gray) B.L.Rob. (as T. pygmaeum A.Gray)

Ted Gray

At the end of the 1954 season, Gray was traded to the Chicago White Sox with Walt Dropo.

The Alberts

They also along with Bruce Lacey presented a version of The Three Musketeers at The Arts Theatre and then at The Royal Court, Sloane Square, The Three Musketeers Ride Again which also starred Rachel Roberts as Madame de Winter, Rosa Bosom and Valentine Dial as Cardinal Richelieu, Alex Jawdokimova as Aramis and Sinbad Gray as Pustule and many others.

The Blood Ring

Nellie Gray is prominent on the list of intended sacrifices, and Smitty, rescuing her at one point, Samson-like, pulls down a reproduction Egyptian temple in the museum.

The Gray Goose

The Gray Goose is also known as the equine star Sylvester Stallone, in the movie Sylvester, where he and Walnes doubled in the movie for the eventing shots.

Thomas Billing

Writing to one Ledam, Billing says : 'I would ye should do well, because ye are a fellow of Gray's Inn, where I was fellow ' (Paston Letters, i. 43, 53), and, according to a Gray's Inn manuscript, he was a reader there.

Thomas Braddell

On 10 June 1859 he was called at Gray's Inn ; in 1862 he resigned the Company's service and went to Singapore, where he commenced practice in partnership with Mr. Abraham Logan, as Logan and Braddell.

Vincent R. Gray

Gray has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cambridge University after studies on incendiary bomb fluids made from aluminium soaps.

William M. Gray

After the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Gray announced that he was stepping back from the primary authorship of CSU's tropical cyclone probability forecasts, passing the role to Philip J. Klotzbach.

William Thomas Shave Daniel

W T S Daniel became a student of Lincoln's Inn on 27 January 1825, was called to the bar on 8 February 1830, became Queen's Counsel on 17 July 1851, and was called to the bench on 3 November 1851.


see also

Gray's Inn Lane Hand Axe

The Gray's Inn Lane Hand Axe is a pointed flint hand axe, found buried in gravel under Gray's Inn Lane, London, England, by pioneering archaeologist John Conyers in 1679, and now in the British Museum.

Gray's Inn Road

Richard Horwood's map (updated by William Faden in 1813) calls the whole stretch from Holborn to modern Kings Cross "Grays Inn Lane", but by the mid-19th century it is Gray's Inn Road.

John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick

Taylor was called to the bar in 1978, by Gray's Inn, where he was also awarded the Gray's Inn Advocacy Award, and Norman Tapp Memorial Prize for excellence in mooting.

TomFolio.com

According to the Penkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the reference is to Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725),nicknamed Tom Folio, a lawyer and bibliophile whose accumulation of books at his residence in Gray's Inn was said to have compelled him to sleep in a passageway.

Ysgol David Hughes

1561, who entered Gray's Inn from Magdalen College, Oxford, 28 January 1583 (Foster, Alumni. Oxon.; Gray's Inn Admission Register, 28 Jan 1582-3), but another account of him, claiming to be based on sources not now available, suggests that he was born about 1536 and received no university education.