AIRAY, HENRY (156o?-1616), English Puritan divine, was born at Kentmere, Westmorland, but no record remains of the date of either birth or baptism. He died on Oct. 6, 1616. His character as a man, preacher, divine, and as an important ruler in the university, will be found portrayed in the Epistle by John Potter, prefixed to his Commentary on the Epistle to the Philip pians (1618). He must have been a fine specimen of the more cultured Puritans—possessed of a robust common sense in admi rable contrast with some of his contemporaries.