Albert Alexander Gray

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

(8 October 1868 – 4 January 1936) was a British physician and

otologist Otology is a branch of medicine which studies normal, pathological anatomy and physiology of the ear (hearing). Otology also studies vestibular sensory systems, related structures and functions, as well as their diseases, diagnosis and treat ...

Life

He was born at Firbank, a large villa in

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, one of the nine children of William Gray, a biscuit manufacturer in his role as principal partner of Gray Dunn & Co (creators of the Blue Riband Biscuit), and his wife, Margaret Sarah Pace. He was educated at

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(an independent

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boarding school) in

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and then

Glasgow Academy The Glasgow Academy is a coeducational private day school for pupils aged 3–18 in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2016, it had the third-best Higher level exam results in Scotland. Founded in 1845, it is the oldest continuously fully private school in ...

. he then studied medicine at

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graduating MB in 1890. He immediately began to specialise in diseases of the ear. He practiced at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and lectured at

. He received his doctorate (MD) in 1897. In 1898 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. his proposers were

John Gray McKendrick John Gray McKendrick (12 August 1841 – 2 January 1926) was a Scottish physiologist. He served as Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow from 1876 to 1906, and was co-founder of the Physiological Society. Early life McKe ...

Magnus Maclean Magnus Maclean FRSE MIEE MICE LLD (1 November 1857 – 2 September 1937) was an electrical engineer who assisted Lord Kelvin in his electrical experiments and later became Professor of Electrical Engineering in Glasgow (one of the first to hold su ...

, William Jack and

Sir William Thomson William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (26 June 182417 December 1907), was a British mathematician, Mathematical physics, mathematical physicist and engineer. Born in Belfast, he was the Professor of Natural Philosophy (Glasgow), professor of Natur ...

(Lord Kelvin). His later life was spent working at the Ferens Institute of Oto-Laryngology (1927 until death). He died, aged 67, in 1936.

Family

Among his siblings was the footballer Woodville Gray, a Scottish international.Woodville Gray, selected for Scotland aged 17
Scottish Sport History, 29 April 2014 In 1892 he married Mabel Henderson. They had two sons: Donald Gray and Oliver Gray.

Publications

*''The

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of Animals'' (1908) *''The Ear and its Diseases'' (1910) *''Otosclerosis'' (1917) *''The Mechanism of the Cochlea'' (1924) co-written with George Wilkinson

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gray, Albert Alexander 1868 births 1936 deaths Medical doctors from Glasgow 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Alumni of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh People educated at Bootham School People educated at the Glasgow Academy