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=== House Notes ===
proposed 1870.10.25<br />1871 The death was announced of Mr Wm Wray of Burton Stather.<br /><br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
WILLIAM WRAY was born in 1830 at Burton Stather in Lincolnshire, and was brought up to the shipbuilding business of his father, Mr. John Wray, at that place; and in 1857 he assumed the management of the business. <br />Having acquired a good knowledge of the principles of shipbuilding, he introduced improvements in the lines of the numerous brigs, schooners, fishing smacks, and other vessels built by his firm. <br />He died on 5th June 1871 at the age of forty-one. <br />He became a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1866.<br /><br />
