James Gray

Quick Facts

Full Name	James Gray
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Nov 7, 1954(1954-11-07)
Age	70
Birthplace	Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Glasgow
Horoscope	Capricorn

James Gray Biography

James Gray is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 7, 1954 in Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. James Whiteside Gray (born 7 November 1954) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for North Wiltshire. A keen Brexit supporter, he is an advocate of pro-Brexit lobby group Leave Means Leave.

Gray married Sarah Ann Beale in 1980, and they have two sons and a daughter. The marriage ended in 2006, after it emerged that Gray was having an affair with a married woman, Phillipa Mayo, while his wife was fighting breast cancer. Gray had met Phillipa Mayo, then Director of the Countryside Alliance’s pro-hunting campaign, while organising Conservative opposition to the anti-hunting bill. The affair attracted national press attention when Mayo’s husband, the barrister Rupert Mayo, wrote to a local newspaper, the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, “The irony is that I will not reap the benefits of Mr Cameron’s excellent family-based policy proposals because one of his own MPs has ripped my own family apart.” The local Conservative association subsequently considered deselecting Gray as their parliamentary candidate, but in January 2007, after a secret ballot of all local party members, decided to confirm him as the Conservative candidate for North Wiltshire.

Gray has served on a variety of Parliamentary select committees He sat on the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee from 1997 to 2001. He served from 2001 to 2003 on the Broadcasting Committee. He was a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee for the 2005 Parliament, and Chairman of the Conservative Rural Action Group (2002–2005).

Gray made his maiden speech on 11 June 1997, in which he spoke of his constituency’s largest town of Chippenham, and of his sadness at the massacre in his childhood home town of Dunblane.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Gray is the son of Very Rev DrJohn Rodger Gray, Minister at Dunblane Cathedral and the 1977 Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and Dr Sheila Mary Gray who was a GP.

James Gray Net Worth

James Gray is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, James Gray 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gray was educated at the Hillhead Primary School, Glasgow, and the High School of Glasgow, before studying history at the University of Glasgow where he graduated MA in 1975. He continued his education at Christ Church, Oxford, where he completed a history thesis in 1977.

From 1977, Gray worked as a graduate management trainee with P&O for a year. In 1977 he also joined the Honourable Artillery Company, a unit of the Territorial Army based in Islington, serving for seven years and is a graduate of the Royal College of Defence Studies and Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme. In 1978 he was awarded the Freedom of the City of London and was appointed a ship broker with Anderson Hughes. He was a member of the Baltic Exchange from

1978. He became a managing director of GNI Freight Futures in 1984, in which capacity he served until 1992. At the same time, he was a director of the Baltic Futures Exchange from 1989 to 1991. In 1987 he was awarded the Lloyd’s of London Book Prize.

At the 1992 general election, Gray was the Conservative candidate for Charles Kennedy’s seat of Ross, Cromarty and Skye. Before winning North Wiltshire constituency in 1997, he was a special advisor to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Michael Howard, and to his successor John Gummer. His particular responsibility was to the Ministers of State for Housing, Local Government and the Environment from 1992 until 1995, when he became a Director of the public affairs consultancy Westminster Strategy. Gray also served as governor of two schools in Balham and in the London Borough of Wandsworth. In 1994, he was elected as the Vice- Chairman of Tooting Conservative Association for two years.

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In March 2009, Gray was a member of a cross-party parliamentary delegation to Afghanistan to learn about British Army operations there. During the visit, British service personnel demonstrated the process by which wounded soldiers are flown into Kandahar on a Hercules and transferred across the runway to a C-17 equipped with the latest medical equipment, and were photographed with medical staff on board. Gray denied allegations that he had taken photographs of a “dying soldier” posted on the blog of Iain Dale, stating that after a reminder to delete any images including injured servicemen, he had checked his camera and found none. According to Gray it was night time and the delegation was kept 500 yards away from the injured soldiers Following the publication of two articles in The Sun and Daily Mail, the incident was investigated by the Press Complaints Commission and Gray’s complaints were upheld.

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In the 2010 Parliament he sat on the Procedure Committee, Panel of Chairs and until 2013 the Finance and Services Committee. From 2013 onwards he sat on the Defence Committee and Committees on Arms Export Controls. In May 2014 he was one of seven unsuccessful candidates for the chairmanship of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee.