Francis Calley Gray
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates
Francis Calley Gray (September 19, 1790 – December 29, 1856) was a politician from Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Elizabeth and William Gray, he graduated Harvard University (1809) and went on to be John Quincy Adams's private secretary, a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and president of the Boston Athenæum. Gray was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1819,[1] and a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1820.[2] Gray was a member of Harvard Overseers.[3] When he died, he left many gifts to Harvard, including his collection of 3,000 engravings and $50,000 (equivalent to $Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". today) to be put towards a museum of comparative zoology.[4]
He died in 1856 and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, his tomb guarded by a sleeping dog.
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with broken file links
- 1790 births
- 1856 deaths
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Harvard University alumni
- Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery
- 19th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court