John Edward Gray |John Edward Gray| |Born||12 February 1800
|Died||7 March 1875(aged 75)| |Spouse||Maria Emma Gray (m.
1826)| John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875)
was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George
Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel
Frederick Gray (1766–1828). Gray was Keeper of Zoology at the
British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874, before
the Natural History holdings were split off to the Natural
History Museum. He published several catalogues of the museum
collections that included comprehensive discussions of animal
groups as well as descriptions of new species. He improved the
zoological collections to make them amongst the best in the
world. Gray was born in Walsall, but his family soon moved to
London, where Gray studied medicine. He assisted his father in
writing The Natural Arrangement of British Plants (1821). After
being blackballed by the Linnean Society he turned his interest
from botany to zoology. He began hi