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John Gray
John Gray a gardener with his wife Jess and son John arrived in
Edinburgh in the early 1800's. But due to harsh weather the ground was
unworkable, there was no work for gardeners, to avoid the workhouse he
joined the Edinburgh Police Force as Constabule No. 90 Warrant No 1487.
One of his conditions of service was that he had a Watch Dog, he obtained a Skye Terrier and named him appropriately Bobby.
Total companionship developed between them and continued even after death.
After a few years in the Police Force John Gray took ill, he was treated by Police Surgeon Dr Littlejohn for tuberculosis.
John Gray died on the 8th February 1858.
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