Edmund Dwyer Gray

Edmund John Chisholm DwyerGray was an IrishAustralian politician, who was the 29th Premier of Tasmania fromJune toDecember 1939.

He was born Edmund John Chisholm Gray onApril 1870 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Edmund Dwyer Gray, an MP in the British House of Commons. He was the maternal grandson of Caroline Chisholm, the English humanitarian renowned for her social welfare work with female immigrants to Australia. His paternal grandfather was Sir John Gray, the Irish Member of Parliament for Kilkenny City in the House of Commons, and an associate of the Irish nationalist Daniel OConnell. He was educated at the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus, Scotland, and at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit school in County Kildare.

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