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Painter, Sculptor, Sculptor / Carver, b. 1922 - d. 2012

Charles Bray (1922 – 22 July 2012) is a British painter and glass sculptor. He was born in Salford, Lancashire, England.

He was brought up, an only child, in a two-up-two-down terraced house, in Salford, where his father worked as a lorry driver. A strong artistic influence came through his mother, who was musical and his maternal great-grandfather, a stonemason. He failed the scholarship exam for Grammar school, but became top of his secondary school, Halton Bank School, by the age of 13. He later attended Openshaw Technical College[2] and studied to belong to the Society of Designer Craftsmen.[3] He began employment with a firm of church furnishers.

When he turned 18, Charles Bray joined the Royal Navy, at the start of World War II, and served on HMS Rodney and HMS Diomede. After the end of the war, he attended Freckleton Teacher training college, under the Emergency Teacher Training Scheme,[4] set up after the implementation of the Education Act 1944.