HENRY R. GRAY

Ex-alderman Henry R. Gra\^ was boni, December 30tli, 1838, at Boston, Lincolnshire, England, and educated at '' Standard Hill," Nothingham, the headmaster of which institution was William Goodacre, the well-know author of several standard éducation al works. Afterwards Mr. Gra}^ was articled for five years to Win. Mardi, chemist and apothecary, Newark, after which lie took a course of lectures on chemistry, under the celebrated Roscoe, in Manchester.

He established his business in Montréal in 1859. The specialties of Mr. Gray's pharmacy are the supplying of public institutions and physicians with drugs, chemicals and pharmaceutical préparations, the dispensing of physicians prescriptions and faraily business generally.

Mr. Gray has devoted himself during the last twenty years to the study of sanitary science, and particularly to the sanitation of the cities, and has been connected with every récent movement to improve the sanitary condition of Montréal. Mr. Gray was one of the originators of the Pharmaceutical Association of the Province, and after being successively Secretary, Treasurer and Vice-Président, was elected for three years in succession Président, and has been up to a récent date a member of the Board of Examiners. He was also one of the Charter Members of the Montréal Collège of Phannacy, and for two 3;'ears its Président. In 1884, Mr. Gray was elected aldernian for the St. Lawrence Ward. Shortly after his élection Mr. Gray was appointed unanimously by the City Council, Chairman of the Local Board of Health, serving in that ver}^ important place during the whole of the disastrous épidémie of small-pox which overtook the City and Province in 1885-86. He was also a member of the Roads Committee during his aldermanic term.

In 1885, Mr. Gray succeeded in getting a by-law through the City Council requiring ail household refuse to be cremated, and shortly afterwards incinerators were erected, and a contract for five years' collection and crémation given ont. After having served his term as alderman for three years, Mr. Gray declined re-election. Shortly afterwards he was appointed by the Government, a Justice of the Peace and member of the Council of Public Instruction for the Province of Québec, which body recently elected him to represent it on the Corporation of the Polytechnic School of this City, which position he still holds.

When the " Public Health Act " passed the Législature shortly after the small-pox épidémie, M. Gray, who had, in addition to his aldermanic duties, been a member of the old Central Board of Health for the Province, was appointed a member of the new Provincial Board of Health then created, and has remained a member ever since.

In 1885, Mr. Gray was elected '' membre honoraire de la Société d'Hygiène Française," of Paris, France. Shortl}^ after his return from the City Council Mr. Gray was asked by a number of leading citizens of ail parties and creeds to accept nomination for the mayoralty, but owing to business reasons he was obliged to décline.

Mr. Gray married Miss Catherine Margaret McGale, 3^oungest daughter of the late Dr. Bernard McGale, in his lifetime of the Army Médical Staff.