GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872), first bishop of Cape Town and metropolitan of South Africa, was born at Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, on Oct. 3, 1809, and was the son of Robert Gray, bishop of Bristol. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and took orders in 1833. After holding various English livings, he was consecrated bishop of Cape Town in 1847. In 1853 he was appointed metro politan of South Africa in view of the contemplated establishment of the suffragan dioceses of Graham's Town and Natal. In that capacity his coercive jurisdiction was called in question in the case of Bishop Colenso (q.v.), and the judicial committee of the privy council decided against him. During his episcopate Bishop Gray effected a much-needed organization of the South African church, to which he added five new bishoprics, all carved out of the original diocese of Cape Town. He died on Sept. 1, 1872. See H. L. Farrer, Life of Robert Gray, Bishop of Capetown (1876, 2nd ed., 1883).