Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin

James Hector Northey "Hamish" Gray, Baron Gray of Contin, PC, DL (28 June 1927 – 14 March 2006) was a Scottish Conservative politician and life peer.

He was commissioned into the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in 1945 and served in India, during partition.

He was appointed to the Whips' Office in 1971, and he served as a front bench Energy spokesman (1975–1979).

Upon the Conservatives' return to government in 1979, he was appointed as the Minister of State for Energy under David Howell, where he remained until the 1983 general election, when he was defeated in the new Ross, Cromarty and Skye constituency by the SDP candidate Charles Kennedy.

[3] He died on 14 March 2006 at a hospice in Inverness after a long battle with cancer.