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William gay sr2/9/2024 In 1891 he was in the Austin hospital, and in 1893 went to live at Bendigo, Victoria. In 1888 he went to Melbourne and obtained a mastership at Scotch College, but teaching was beyond his strength. Gay obtained work as a purser's clerk on vessels of the Union Line for nearly 2 years, when illness again led to his living with some relatives at Hawke's Bay who nursed him back to comparative health. Tuberculosis threatened a sea voyage was tried and he arrived at Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1885. ![]() Destitution and illness followed and Gay had to go back to his people.Īgain he went to London but his strength was not sufficient and he had to go into hospital in Glasgow. His father wanted him to be a minister, but the boy felt he could not conscientiously follow that profession and went to London hoping to make a living there. Gay was a slight man of average height and was said to have had some resemblance to Tennyson. At 14 he became a monitor at the school, and winning a bursary went to the University of Glasgow. The family moved not long afterwards to the town of Alexandria, Scotland, where Gay was educated at a boarding school. Gay senior was a religious man, an engraver of patterns for wallpaper and calico, his mother came from an educated family. Gay was born at Bridge of Weir, in Renfrewshire, Scotland, eldest child of Jane (Tagg) and William Gay.
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