page_title: George Wilkie Gray
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: George Wilkie Gray / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Side view of the Castlemaine Brewery in 1901
context_page_description: George Wilkie Gray was a businessman, and member of the Queensland Legislative Council.
context_section_description: Gray was born in Sydney to Alexander Gray, a licensed victualler, and his wife Margaret (née Hall).  He left school early but studied accountancy at night and in 1863 moved to Queensland where he found work with Clarke, Hodgson & Co, first as a clerk in Ipswich and then as a manager in Brisbane.
  Around 1870, Gray became friends with Michael Quinlan, a mercantile shipping agent, and joined Quinlan Donnelly & Co. After Quinlan died in 1878, his widow made Gray a managing partner in the now renamed Quinlan Gray & Co.
  In 1887, Gray amalgamated his company with E. and N. Fitzgerald to form a public company, the Castlemaine Brewery and established its premises in Milton with Gray being managing director in 1924. Gray had many other business interests, he was director of National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd (Queensland), Queensland National Bank, Millaquin Sugar Co, Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd, and Queensland Trustees Ltd.
caption: Side view of the Castlemaine Brewery in 1901
exif: {}