A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gray, Edward Evans
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GRAY. (Commander, 1846.)
Edward Evans Gray passed his examination in 1821; and obtained his first commission 13 Nov. 1827. He was afterwards appointed – 19 Sept. 1834 and 25 April, 1837, as First, to the Raleigh and Ringdove sloops, Capts. Michael Quin, Horatio Stopford Nixon, and Hon. Keith Stewart, on the East India, and North America and West India stations – and, 13 Jan. 1842 and 8 Dec. 1845, to the successive command of the Bonetta and Viper brigantines, employed off the coast of Africa, and in North America and the West Indies. He left the last-mentioned vessel on attaining his present rank, 9 Nov. 1846. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.