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Not who you're looking for? Others named Thomas Gray: English poet and classical scholar (1716–1771) · recipient of the Victoria Cross (1914–1940) · American soccer player · Canadian rower

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Thomas Gray, C.B. (1832–1890), entered into the British Board of Trade as a boy clerk in 1851, becoming Head of the Maritime Department by 1869, a position he held for over 20 years, becoming deeply interested in everything related to ships and seafaring. In 1867, as assistant secretary, he wrote a pamphlet entitled "The Rule of the Road" also known as "The Rules in Rhyme", which became famous for its well-known mnemonic verses. e.g. According to Charles Dickens, Jr., Thomas Gray either owned or at the very least operated a little steam launch going by the name of Midge as a hobby. A variant of this poem was featured in "The Donkeyman's Widow" by Guy Gilpatric, a Glencannon story which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, 29 January 1938.

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Thomas Gray, C.B. (1832–1890), entered into the British Board of Trade as a boy clerk in 1851, becoming Head of the Maritime Department by 1869, a position he held for over 20 years, becoming deeply interested in everything related to ships and seafaring.

Notable quotes

“While bright-eyed Science watches round.”
— Ode for Music (1769), Chorus, line 3
“And weep the more, because I weep in vain.”
— Sonnet, On the Death of Mr. West; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.”
— To Mr. West, Letter iv, Third Series; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.”
— III. 1, Line 12
“The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.”
— St. 5
“To high-born Hoel's harp, or soft Llewellyn's lay.”
— I. 2. line 28

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Thomas Gray: English poet and classical scholar (1716–1771) · recipient of the Victoria Cross (1914–1940) · American soccer player · Canadian rower

Thomas Gray across IJR

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Thomas GrayFamously busy. Currently all yours.Thomas GrayThe Canadian rower with nowhere else to be today.

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