Honors
- John Penn "of Stoke" had a memorial to Gray installed in the churchyard and engraved with the "Elegy".
- A plaque in Cornhill marks his birthplace.
- Gray's biographer William Mason erected a monument to him, designed by John Bacon the Elder, in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey in 1778.
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