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GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255) , English prelate and statesman, was a nephew of John de Gray, bishop of Norwich, and was educated at Oxford. He owed his early and rapid preferment in church and state to the favour of King John, becoming the king's chancellor in 1205, and being chosen bishop of Lichfield in 1210. He was, however, not allowed to keep this bishopric, but he became bishop of Worcester in 1214, resigning his office as chancellor in the same year. Gray was with John when the king signed Magna Carta in June 1215; soon after this event he left. England on the king's business, and it was during his absence that he was forced into the archbishopric of York
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parliament , and died at Fulham on the 1st of May 1255. Gray was always anxious to assert his archiepiscopal authority over Scotland , and to maintain it against the archbishop of Canterbury, but in neither case was he very successful. He built the south transept of the minster at York
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