Born: 26 December 1716, Cornhill, London, United Kingdom
Died: 30 July 1771, Cambridge, United KingdomBuried: St Giles, Church, United Kingdom
Parents: Dorothy Gray, Philip Gray
His Works:
Ode on the Spring (written in 1742)On the Death of Richard West (written in 1742)Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes (written in 1747)Ode to a Distant Prospect of Eton College (written in 1747 and published anonymously)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (written between 1745 and 1750)The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode (written between 1751 and 1754)The Bard: A Pindaric Ode (written between 1755 and 1757)The Fatal Sisters: An Ode (written in 1761)