Arthur Gray

Born in York on September 28, 1852, Arthur Gray was an English academic and author who spent much of his life at Jesus College, Cambridge. He studied there, later served the college in several roles, and became Master of Jesus College in 1912, a post he held until his death on April 12, 1940.

Alongside his academic career, he wrote fiction and nonfiction. Gray is especially remembered for supernatural stories first published under the pen name Ingulphus and later collected as Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye. Set against the atmosphere of Cambridge, these stories blend humor, scholarship, and quiet unease in a way that still appeals to fans of traditional ghost fiction.

He also wrote on Cambridge history and related subjects, drawing deeply on the world he knew best. That mix of learned background and storyteller's touch gives his work its distinctive charm: calm, clever, and just a little uncanny.