Frank Gray (politician)
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Frank Gray (31 August 1880 – 2 March 1935) was a was a British politician. He served as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Oxford from 1922 to 1924.
He was educated at Rugby School and admitted as a solicitor in 1903; he retired from law in 1916, and entered the Army. He refused a commission, and served as a private soldier in The Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) until the Armistice.
After the war, he worked as a farm labourer, lived with Warwickshire miners, and toured the workhouses of Oxfordshire as a tramp.
In the 1918 general election he contested Watford, and he was elected as the MP for Oxford in the 1922 general election and was made a Liberal whip. He was accused of corrupt practices in the 1923 general election. Following a petition, he was unseated in May 1924, but was acquitted of corrupt practices.
In 1926, he crossed Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea in a car. He died while returning from South Africa to Southampton, having travelled there for his health.
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| Preceded by John Arthur Ransome Marriott |
Member of Parliament for Oxford 1922–1924 |
Succeeded by Robert Croft Bourne |
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