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b. c.1429, DURH3/164/52. s. and h. of Sir Ralph Gray (c.1400-1443) of Wark, by Elizabeth, da. of Henry, Lord Fitzhugh (d.1425). m. c.1452, Jacquetta (d. 26 Sept. 1469), poss. da. of William Stanlowe*, 2s. 1da. Hist. Northumb. xiv. 328; Plantagenet Ancestry ed. Richardson and Everingham, 152. Kntd. bef. Mar. 1453. C219/16/2.
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Attestor, parlty. election, Northumb. 1453.

Commr. of weirs, co. Durham May 1451; DURH3/48, m. 15. inquiry, Northumb. Nov. 1454, Feb. 1459 (smuggling), July 1458 (breaches of marcher law), Rot. Scot. ed. Macpherson etc., ii. 387. Nov. 1462 (treason); to assign archers Dec. 1457; of arrest June 1460.

Jt. keeper of Roxburgh castle with Sir Robert Ogle II* c. Apr. 1449 – 1 Mar. 1452, with William Neville, Lord Fauconberg 1 Mar. 1452-c. Feb. 1459, with Sir Robert Ogle II c. Feb 1459-Aug. 1460. EHR, lxxii. 614; Rot. Scot. ii. 360–1, 392–3; E101/69/1/279.

Sheriff, Northumb. 4 Nov. 1455 – 17 Nov. 1456, 16 Nov. 1459 – 7 Nov. 1460.

Conservator of the truce with Scotland July 1457, July 1459. Rot. Scot. ii. 383, 398.

Constable, Alnwick castle, Northumb. 14 Jan. 1463–23 June 1464. Historical Collns. Citizen London (Cam. Soc. ser. 2, xvii), 220.

Parlimentarian
GRAY, Ralph II (c.1429-64), of Wark and Chillingham, Northumb.
Main residences: Wark; Chillingham, Northumb.
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D.I.G.
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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