This poser, taken from the Edinburgh birth registers, we asked you what George Gray grandfather's job had been latterly and where he retired to. We promised you a bonus point if you could correctly identify what the abbreviated honorifics stand for.
Answer: George Gray's grandfather was formerly the governor of Hong Kong. In 1851 he lived in Alnwick, Northumberland.
Transcription
Edinburgh 5th March 1851
The Reverend Thomas Gray M.A.
and F.R.S.S.A. Minister of the Parish of
Kirkurd, Peeblesshire, Son of William Gray
Esquire, Merchant & Shipowner in Aberdeen
and Harriet Barbara Burrell, his Spouse
Younger daughter of Major General George
Burrell C.B. Formerly Governor of Hong
Kong now of Alnwick, Northumberland,
had a lawful Son born at No 28 Queen
Street, Saint Georges Parish, Edinburgh,
on the Seventh day of February Eighteen
hundred and Fifty One Named George
Burrell. Baptised in the Parish Church
of Kirkurd on the Sixth day of April follow-
ing by the Reverend Dr William Steven of
Trinity College Parish, Edinburgh.
M.A. = Master of Arts
F.R.S.S.A. = Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts
C.B. = Companion of the Order of the Bath
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