During World War II she was an engineer, a protected occupation which allowed her to look after her hospitalised mother.
While a quality controller in an engine factory on the Harrow Road, a rail strike disrupted her travel from Herne Hill and she took up cycling, commuting through bomb-damaged streets.
[4] In 1991, aged 71, she was given a page in the Golden Book of Cycling, where she was described as a champion of women's racing and an administrator of vision and authority.
[5] In 2010 Gray became one of the initial inductees into the British Cycling Hall of Fame, cited as "founding the Women's Cycle Racing Association of which she became BCF President" and as key to women's racing becoming part of the Olympics from 1984.
[7][8] In 2005 the BBC reported that Gray was the head of The Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Masons,[9] one of two orders of women's Freemasons in the UK.