Farewell to a kind courteous gentleman and a brilliant singer.My sincere condolences to Paul’s family.

Paul was a force of nature, never backwards in giving his opinion or expertise. His spontaneous breaking out into song was remarkable, not to mention his craftsmanship in building stage sets solid enough to grace a real dwelling. Also an outstanding EU civil servant. Joining Diane in eternal rest as is right.

I thank God for the life of Paul Gray. He was a wonderful poly-gifted all-rounder of a gentleman. He was an amazing tenor! Won the Eisteddfod back in his time. He knew music inside out. He knew church music even more inside out. And he knew choral singing. He could sing opera, lieder, light opera, musicals. He could belt out an amazing solo for "We three kings of Orient are". All this he did in his spare time. His real job was being a chemist. In this role, he led the EU team charged with investigating and ameliorating the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in the 1980s. On first getting to know him, his many skills and accomplishments could seem a bit intimidating. But once you got to know him better, you discovered that he was fundamentally a very kind and gentle-hearted man with a sincere Christian faith. During his last five years in Brussels, he and Diane sang regularly with our choir here in Holy Trinity. I always valued their contribution very highly. His parting gift to me, when he left Holy Trinity, was the huge ancient deluxe HISTORICAL EDITION of Hymns Ancient & Modern, with historical notes on all the hymns. It's here in my bookcase, and I treasure it to this day. We wish him peaceful rest until the day he rises to his reward.

I have many happy memories of Paul and Diane through all the years of friendship and working together on theatrical productions in Brussels. All my warmest thoughts to the family.

Thank you for setting up this memorial to Paul. We hope that you find it a positive experience developing the site and that it becomes a place of comfort and inspiration for you to visit whenever you want or need to.

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.