author
b. 1856
I couldn’t confirm which author this refers to. “James Gray” matches several different people, and the birth year 1856 alone isn’t enough to identify the right one safely.
I wasn’t able to verify a specific author named James Gray born in 1856 from reliable sources during this search. The results turned up many different people with the same name, including writers from other periods and several non-authors, but no clearly confirmed match I could summarize with confidence.
If you share a book title, country, middle name, or dates of death, I can narrow it down and write a proper author overview.