to promote members' interests at conferences, to which he achieved a degree of success in ensuring delegates had more opportunity for engagement at the formal meetings. Gray was the founding president on the board of trustees for the New Zealand Business and Parliament Trust. He died at his home in Mosgiel on 2 April 2022. Freemason Gray was active as a Freemason from the 1950s. He was initiated at Kirkcudbright the day before he left for New Zealand. He joined the lodge at Tapanui after arriving in New Zealand, before transferring to Lawrence in 195, where he rose to become master in 1971. After retiring from farming, he transferred to Lodge St John 84 in Mosgiel in 1995, and was appointed grand lecturer the following year. References |- 1931 births 2022 deaths People from Dumfries and Galloway People educated at George Watson's College Scottish emigrants to New Zealand Naturalised citizens of New Zealand Members of the Cabinet of New Zealand New Zealand farmers New Zealand National Party MPs Speakers of the New Zealand House of Representatives Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives People from Mosgiel New Zealand Knights Bachelor New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates New Zealand politicians awarded knighthoods 20th-century British Army personnel New Zealand Freemasons