Gray and Davison

{{Short description|Organ builders 1841–1973}}

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Gray & Davison was a large-scale manufacturer of church and cathedral pipe organs, based in London. The company was active between 1841 and 1973{{cite web|url=http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/ESearch.cgi?Fn=DBOBSearch&firm=Gray+%26+Davison|title=Gray & Davison (Firm)|work=Directory of British Organ Builders (The National Pipe Organ Register)|publisher=Royal College of Music|access-date=2009-11-21}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and had its heyday between 1905 and 1930.{{cite web|url=http://www.npor.org.uk/Reporter/jul03/e703.htm|title=Frederick Rothwell, Organ-builder|date=2003-04-26|first=John|last=Norman|work=BIOS Reporter|publisher=The British Institute of Organ Studies|access-date=21 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006103718/http://www.npor.org.uk/Reporter/jul03/e703.htm|archive-date=6 October 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

Organs produced are stamped "John Gray", then later "Gray & Son" and from 1842 onwards as "Gray & Davison".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xcra-oJfCYgC&pg=PA112|page=112|title=Organa Britannica: Organs in Great Britain 1660-1860: a Complete Edition of the Sperling Notebooks and Drawings in the Library of the Royal College of Organists|first1=Andrew|last1=Freeman|first2=James|last2=Boeringer|author3=Royal College of Organists (Great Britain). Library|author4=Organ Club (London, England). Library|isbn=978-0-8387-1894-0|publisher=Bucknell University Press|year=1989}}

The company started with Robert Gray (1742–1796), and his partner and brother William Gray (1757–1821). John Gray, William's son inherited the business in 1821 and from 1837 ran it in partnership with Frederick Davison until John Gray's death in 1849.