Irvine Egerton Gray MBE FSA (4 April 1903 – 27 March 1992) was an antiquarian and archivist of Gloucestershire.
He served in the British Army during the Second World War, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 14 October 1939[8] rising to the rank of major in the Intelligence Corps, and was awarded the MBE in King George VI's 1945 Birthday Honours.
His first local history book was a guide to county records for the Historical Association (1948), jointly with Frederick Emmison.
Five sacks of records, covering 700 years, were retrieved from a damp potting-shed and found to include medieval deeds, court rolls, and a grant from King Henry II of 1152–1154.
[11] Other books and articles followed, his final publication being his collation of the Antiquaries of Gloucestershire and Bristol in 1981 that gave biographical profiles of 52 antiquarians of that county from William Worcestre (1414–1480s) to Roland Austin (1874–1954).