A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gray, William (b)
GRAY. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
William Gray (b) was born 9 April, 1793. This officer entered the Navy, 29 April, 1808, as Midshipman, on board the Zebra bomb, Capt. Thos. Rich. Toker, stationed in the Baltic, where he accompanied the same officer into the Cruizer 18. In Feb. 1813 he joined the Lacedemonian 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, employed off the coast of North America; and, in June, 1815, the month in which he passed his examination, he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Pique 36, commanded in the West Indies by Capts. Fanshawe, Tait, and Mackellar. Between Sept. 1818 and the early part of 1825, Mr. Gray was employed, chiefly as Mate, in the Sybille and Queen Charlotte, flag-ships at Jamaica and Portsmouth of Sir Home Popham and Sir Geo. Campbell, Owen Glendower 42, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Robt. Mends on the west coast of Africa, Pylades 18, Capt. Fras. Fead, stationed in the Channel, and Esk 20, Capt. Wm. Jardine Purchas, on the African coast. On 1 July, 1825, he was confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the Maidstone 36, Commodore Chas. Bullen, employed on the station last mentioned, where, as he had done while belonging to the Owen Glendower, he commanded, a tender at the capture of a slave-vessel. He has been on half-pay since 6 April, 1826. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.