Teacher, painter and sculptor, born in London, who studied at Brighton School of Art and Royal College of Art, qualifying in 1914. Became chief assistant art master of the School of Art in Sunderland, County Durham, where he lived; from 1919–49 Ray was an energetic and enterprising head of the School, overseeing a period of rapid expansion. He also lectured at the local teachers’ training college and was involved in examinations and syllabus formation. Ray was president of Stanfield Art Society in the 1920s and a member of Sunderland Art Club, showing elsewhere in the north. He carried out many commissions for local authorities and societies to design insignia, war memorials and plaques, being best known for his war memorial in Mowbray Park, Sunderland, where the Museum and Art Gallery holds examples.