A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bray, Edward Atkins
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BRAY, EDWARD ATKINS.
Poet and Divine.
1778—1857.
Admitted 21 January, 1801.
Only son of Edward Bray, of Tavistock, solicitor and manager of the Devonshire property of the Duke of Bedford. He was born at Tavistock 18 Dec, 1778. He was a person of retiring disposition, and after his call to the Bar, 7 Feb. 1806, soon abandoned the law for divinity. In 1811 he was ordained, and was presented to the living of Tavistock the following year, which he held till his death in 1857.
In his early years he was given to poetry, and his Poetical Remains were published by his widow in 1859. These and several selections of Sermons from English Divines form his contributions to English literature.