Gray

Other names: Reverend
Nationality

English

Occupation

minister

Residence(s)
  • Henstridge Marsh, Somerset, England (from 1765)
Events

Fundraising Tour of Great Britain

Biography

Gray was a minister, probably of a Congregational or Presbyterian church, in the small town of Henstridge Marsh, in Somerset, England. He was one of the clergymen Lebeus Driver directed Occom and Whitaker to contact and meet on their fundraising tour of England in 1765, but there is no other information about him. Records for Henstridge mention a Mr. Benjamin Gray in 1776 and in 1802 call him "the younger," but his occupation is listed as "farmer." A Benjamin Gray, esq. (d. 1832), is also listed as a resident of Pond House in Henstridge.

Sources

The Ladies Magazine or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, vol. 33, 1802. ebook. https://books.google.com/books?id=mkhGAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s; Parish of Henstridge, Extracts from the Church Wardens Accounts. http://www.opcdorset.org/Miscellaneous/HenstridgeChurchAccounts.htm; Sweetman, George. The History of Wincanton, Somerset, from Earliest Times to the year 1903. google ebook. https://books.google.com/books?id=Z78LAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s;