Frank Gray (politician)

Frank Gray (31 August 1880 – 2 March 1935) was a British politician. He served as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Oxford from 1922 to 1924.

He was educated at Rugby School and admitted as a solicitor in 1903; he retired from law in 1916, and entered the Army. He refused a commission, and served as a private soldier in The Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) until the Armistice.

After the war, he worked as a farm labourer, lived with Warwickshire miners, and toured the workhouses of Oxfordshire as a tramp. He wrote the book "The Tramp: his Meaning and Being" (Dent, London, 1931.)

In the 1918 general election he contested Watford, and he was elected as the MP for Oxford in the 1922 general election and was made a Liberal whip. He was accused of corrupt practices in the 1923 general election. Following a petition, he was unseated in May 1924, but was acquitted of corrupt practices.

In 1926, he crossed Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea in a car. He died while returning from South Africa to Southampton, having travelled there for his health.