Background and Early Career
Gray was educated at Inverness Royal Academy and privately at George Watson's College, Edinburgh before studying physics at the University of Edinburgh and training as a maths and physics teacher at Moray House College of Education. After graduation he worked as a maths and physics teacher at Gracemount High School in Edinburgh, before a teaching stint in Mozambique. He then spent twelve years as the Campaigns Director for the Scottish arm of the aid charity Oxfam. Gray is a lifelong fan of Edinburgh football club Hibernian, and enjoys reading, music and hill walking.
Gray has been married twice. He married his first wife, Linda Malloch, in 1978 with whom he has one daughter. Malloch divorced him and later married Gray's long-time friend Kevin Dunion, the Scottish Information Commissioner. Gray married his second wife Gill (a part-time constituency secretary to Labour MSP Mary Mulligan) in 1997, with whom he has two step-daughters.
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