Key Information
Name: THOMAS PATRICK Gray
DoB: c. 1915
Regt: Major 94441, Royal Artillery
DoD:
12/09/1946 31
Buried: DALSTON BURIAL GROUND
Academic Career: CGS 1924-32
Other:
Biographical Information
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Family Background: father Thomas Gray, Librarian. Mother was Susanna (nee Jackson). Sister
Taken from Cumbrian Lives Index: Gray, Thomas (c.1883-1961), FLA, librarian and archivist, born in Carlisle, elementary education, started working at Tullie House at age of 14, deputy librarian at 19, apptd director, librarian and curator in 1929 till retirement in 1949, apptd part-time archivist to Cumberland County Council in 1949 and first Archivist to Joint Archives Committee for Cumberland, Westmorland and City of Carlisle in 1960, Vice-President, CWAAS 1948, Hon Librarian 1924 and Hon Curator 1930-1949, Hon Secretary of Cumberland Excavation Committee 1931, and elected member 1924, Hon MA, Durham University 1960, of Lakerigg, Dalston, died at his desk in The Courts, Carlisle, 27 December 1961, aged 78 (CW2, lxii, 357-58)
Thomas married Jenny Mary Lilian O’Keeffe in 1942. She was known as Jenny. Their address in 1946 was Lakerigg, Dalston, Carlisle. Daughter Susan was born a few weeks after her father’s death. Probate was granted to his father and to his wife. He left over £1000.
Parents’ address in 1946 was Tullie House.