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Dr Tina Gray was a medical pioneer and the sister of 'Glasgow Girl' Norah Neilson Gray.

Family life




Tina Gray was born in Helensborough in 1885, one of seven children of Norah Neilson and George Gray, a Glasgow ship owner. During Gray's childhood the family enjoyed some affluence, but were to lose much of their wealth during a depression in the shipping industry after the First World War. Tina was homeschooled, and went on to study drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art from 1901-1903. . Her sister, beloved 'Glasgow Girl' Norah Neilson Gray, also studied at the Glasgow School of Art and enjoyed international recognition until her untimely death in 1931.

WW1
Gray, like her sister and many other middle class women of their generation, put herself forward as a volunteer during WW1. Whilst Gray's sister volunteered with the suffragist-affiliated Scottish Women's Hospitals, Gray volunteered as a nurse with the British Red Cross. She was based at the 25th stationary hospital in Rouen, a British millitary hospital for infectious diseases, where she was given the award of one scarlet stripe.

Interwar period
In 1925, Gray graduated from the University of Glasgow at the age of 41 with a medical degree and eventually became the assistant surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary

WW2
During WW2, Gray was appointed as a surgeon at Dunfermline and Stonehouse hospitals.

Postwar period
Gray retired from Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1946, and remained at Stonehouse until late 1947. Gray was a member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Lady Artists' Society (elected 1939). She died aged 100 in 1985.

Category:Scottish peopleCategory:Scottish artistsCategory:Glasgow SchoolCategory:Alumni of the University of Glasgow