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Thomas Cecil Gray
Thomas Cecil Gray CBE KCSG (11 March 1913 – 5 January 2008) was a pioneering English anaesthetist.
Early life.
Gray was born in Liverpool in 1913. The only son of Thomas and Ethel Gray of Thornton, he was educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire. At the age of 18, he joined the order of monks at the Benedictine college of Ampleforth, but after two months it became clear that this was not the vocation for him and he returned to Liverpool to pursue medicine,
Stephen Poyntz, on 12 May 1824. They had at least six children:
- William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter (1825–1895)
- Colonel Lord Brownlow Thomas Montagu Cecil (1827–1905)
- Lady Mary Frances Cecil (1832–1917), married Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby
- Commander Lord Edward Cecil (25 Dec 1834 – 12 Sep 1862)
- Lord Adelbert Percy Cecil (1841–1889), member of the Plymouth Brethren
- Lady Victoria Cecil (1843–1932), married William Charles Evans