John Gray (barrister) explained

John Gray, QC (1807 – 22 January 1875) was a British lawyer and legal writer. The younger son of George Gray, he was born in Aberdeen where he was educated at Gordon's Hospital, before joining a firm of solicitors, Messrs White and Whitmore. He was called to the bar in 1838, four years after being admitted to the Middle Temple. He took silk in 1863 and was appointed Solicitor to the Treasury in 1871, serving until he died in 1875. He conducted the prosecution of the claimant in the infamous Tichborne case.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Publications

• The Country Attorney's Practice (1836); 6th ed. (1845).
• The Country Solicitor's Practice (1837); 4th ed. (1845).
• Law of Costs (1853).

Notes and References

1. Catherine Pease-Watkin (reviser), "Gray, John (1807–1875)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, Oxford University Press, September 2004).
2. "Gray, John", in Frederick Boase, Modern English Biography, vol. 1 (Truro: Netherton and Worth, 1892), p. 1217.
3. John Hutchinson (ed.), A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars with Brief Biographical Notices (Middle Temple, 1902), p. 105.