Edward Ian Grey (21 December 1918 – 21 September 2004) was a Sri Lankan sportsman and a police officer. Gray was a former Inspector of Police (IP) and the first Ceylonese head of the Police Mounted Section. He also served as the Secretary of the National Olympic Committee of Ceylon. Education He was educated at Royal College, Colombo, where he was a Senior Prefect and Captain of the Athletics team, Boxing team and Rugby team. Police career After completing his schooling he joined the Ceylon Police Force and was appointed as a Sub-Inspector of Police at his first duty station in Kandy. When World War II broke out Gray was the Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Koggala police station, where the RAF Koggala was situated and served as a critical base for Allied operations in the Indian Ocean. He later served as OIC of the harbor police at the Colombo port. Joining the Police Stables he went on to become the first Ceylonese to head the unit as its OIC. On the morning of 22 March 1952 Prime Minister D. S. Senanayake was riding the police mare ‘Chitra’ on the Galle Face Green when he suffered a stroke and fell. He was accompanied by IGP Sir Richard Aluwihare, G.G. Ponnambalam and Inspector Eddie Gray at the time who took him to a nursing home, where he died several hours later.

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“A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below... My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, "The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."”
— Vol. 2, ch. 18, p. 20 books.google
“[The United States is like] a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.”
— Remembered by Winston Churchill in 1941 as a remark made by Edward Grey 'more than thirty years ago' .
“The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.”
— Quoted by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher in Memories p.18 (1919)

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Edward Ian Grey (21 December 1918 – 21 September 2004) was a Sri Lankan sportsman and a police officer. Gray was a former Inspector of Police (IP) and the first Ceylonese head of the Police Mounted Section. He also served as the Secretary of the National Olympic Committee of Ceylon. Education He was educated at Royal College, Colombo, where he was a Senior Prefect and Captain of the Athletics team, Boxing team and Rugby team. Police career After completing his schooling he joined the Ceylon Police Force and was appointed as a Sub-Inspector of Police at his first duty station in Kandy. When World War II broke out Gray was the Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Koggala police station, where the RAF Koggala was situated and served as a critical base for Allied operations in the Indian Ocean. He later served as OIC of the harbor police at the Colombo port. Joining the Police Stables he went on to become the first Ceylonese to head the unit as its OIC. On the morning of 22 March 1952 Prime Minister D. S. Senanayake was riding the police mare ‘Chitra’ on the Galle Face Green when he suffered a stroke and fell. He was accompanied by IGP Sir Richard Aluwihare, G.G. Ponnambalam and Inspector Eddie Gray at the time who took him to a nursing home, where he died several hours later.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Edward Ian Grey (21 December 1918 – 21 September 2004) was a Sri Lankan sportsman and a police officer. Gray was a former Inspector of Police (IP) and the first Ceylonese head of the Police Mounted Section. He also served as the Secretary of the National Olympic Committee of Ceylon.

Notable quotes

“A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below... My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, "The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."”
— Vol. 2, ch. 18, p. 20 books.google
“[The United States is like] a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.”
— Remembered by Winston Churchill in 1941 as a remark made by Edward Grey 'more than thirty years ago' .
“The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.”
— Quoted by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher in Memories p.18 (1919)