 Gray and Miss Bagshaw may have met at field days run by the Agricultural and Horticultural Society.Gray enjoyed good health to the age of 80, then was forced by failing eyesight and susceptibility to winter cold to spend less and less time at his beloved sheep farm at the Reedbeds and more time at "Campden", the comfortable house on town acre 63 at the southern corner of Hindley Street and West Terrace which he had purchased half a century earlier.He became obsessed with death, and attended funerals of even the slightest acquaintance.