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Thomas (Tom) Gray (1905-1941), stockman, soldier and poet, was born on 14 April 1905 at Onslow, Western Australia, third of seven children of Richard Vickers, also known as Gray, a White, Australian-born labourer, teamster and horse-breaker, and his Aboriginal wife Ida, née Harris.
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Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , published in 1751.
1716–1771. Thomas Gray by John Giles Eccardt © National Portrait Gallery, London. Alongside Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray is one of the most important English poets of the 18th century.
The Thomas Gray Archive is a collaborative digital archive and research project devoted to the life and work of eighteenth-century poet, letter-writer, and scholar Thomas Gray (1716-1771), author of the acclaimed 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751).
Thomas Gray was an English poet whose “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” is one of the best known of English lyric poems. Although his literary output was slight, he was the dominant poetic figure in the mid-18th century and a precursor of the Romantic movement.
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Thomas Gray: Born: 14 April, 1905 Onslow, Western Australia, Australia. Died: 6 July, 1941 (aged 36) Damour, Lebanon. Cultural Heritage: Indigenous Australian; Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Life Summary [details] Birth. 14 April , 1905 Onslow, Western Australia, Australia. Death. 6 July , 1941 (aged 36) Damour, Lebanon. Cultural Heritage. Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity. Indigenous Australian. Occupation. poet.
