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Gray was appointed to the post of Principal in 1598 aged only 22, in place of Robert Howie (who moved to Dundee then became Principal of the University of St Andrews). He was a pupil of Robert Rollock, the first principal of the University of Edinburgh, whose virtues and learning he extolled in a curious Latin oration which he delivered in 1611, entitled ‘Oratio de Illustribus Scotiæ Scriptoribus.’ Several of the authors eulogised in it are fictitious. Gray accepted literally ‘the fabulous stories of Fergus the First having written on the subject of law 300 years B.C.; Dornadilla a century after composing rules for sportsmen; Reutha, the 7th king of Scotland, being a great promoter of schools and education; and King Josina, a century and a half before the Christian era, writing on botany and the practice of medicine.’ Gray died in December 1614 being buried on the 29th.
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He married Marjorie Menzies and together they had two sons, Thomas and William, both of whom were later city burgesses.
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