Gray David

Gray, David (1838-1861), a Scotch poet, born at Duntiblae, on the Luggie, near Glasgow. His father, a poor weaver, sent him to the university of Glasgow in the hope that he would enter the ministry; but Gray, feeling that literature was his true vocation, came to London with Robert Buchanan in 1860. In spite of the kindly encouragement of Monckton Milnes (afterwards Lord Houghton), he was bitterly disappointed at his ill success. Falling into a consumption, he returned to his parents' home near Kirkintilloch, where he died. His Luggie and Other Poems was published, with a memoir by James Hedderwick and a prefatory notice by Monckton Milnes, in 1862.