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Robert Gray   /rˈɑbərt greɪ/   Listen
Robert Gray

noun
1.
American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806).  Synonym: Gray.






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"Robert gray" Quotes from Famous Books



... who married Robert Gray of Skibo, with issue. Alexander married, secondly, Isabel, eldest daughter of Alexander Mackenzie, progenitor of Coul and ...
— History Of The Mackenzies • Alexander Mackenzie

... cities with water which they did want, seems to have written absurdly about hydrostatics, and to have attacked a certain Sanders,[472] M.A. So Sanders, assisted by James Gregory, published a heavy bit of jocosity about him. This story of the authorship rested on a note made in his {208} copy by Robert Gray, M.D.; but it has since been fully confirmed by a letter of James Gregory to Collins, in the Macclesfield Correspondence. "There is one Master Sinclair, who did write the Ars Magna et Nova,[473] ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan

... of Edward I., a certain Sir Robert Gray, moved by qualms of conscience or honest impulse, founded on the bank of the Thames, east of the well-guarded Temple, a Carmelite convent, with broad gardens, where the white friars might stroll, and with shady nooks where they ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury



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