Gray, John Chipman (1839–1915)

US lawyer and university professor. He was a Judge advocate major for the Union army in the American Civil War, and subsequently joined John C Ropes in a successful Boston law practice while simultaneously teaching at Harvard Law School (1869–1913). He helped found and edit the American Law Review (1866–70). His works on property and legal theory are highly though of, and his law firm, Ropes & Gray, remains active. He was born in Brighton, Massachusetts.