Editing Effie Gray (section)

== Early life ==
Euphemia Chalmers Gray was born on 7 May 1828 in [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]], Perthshire, Scotland to lawyer and businessman George Gray (1798–1877) and Sophia Margaret (1808–1894), daughter of Andrew Jameson, [[Sheriff-substitute]] of [[Fife]].<ref name="Mervyn Williams 2012 Effie">Mervyn Williams (2012) ''Effie''</ref> She grew up at [[Bowerswell]], an [[Italianate architecture|Italianate-style]] house near the foot of [[Kinnoull Hill]].<ref name="Mervyn Williams 2012 Effie"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doorsopendays.org.uk/media/3401/pk-doors-open-days-2017-programme_final.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322031942/http://www.doorsopendays.org.uk/media/3401/pk-doors-open-days-2017-programme_final.pdf |archive-date=2022-03-22 |url-status=live|title=Doors Open Days: 2017 Programme|website=Doorsopendays.org.uk|access-date=1 November 2021}}</ref> Though she was given the pet-name "Phemy" by her parents as a child, she started to be known as "Effie" by the time she was a teenager.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fagence Cooper|first=Suzanne|title=Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais|publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group|year=2011|isbn=978-1429962384|pages=12}}</ref> Her sisters [[Sophie Gray|Sophie]] and Alice often modelled for [[John Everett Millais]].

Between 1842 and 1844 she attended Avonbank school run by the [[Maria Byerley|Misses Byerley]] near Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, England, partly as her parents wanted her to lose her Scottish accent. She was an assiduous student at Avonbank winning prizes in every year but was taken out of school to be a support to her mother when her siblings died of scarlet fever.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Randall|first=Linda|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rj-1MQEACAAJ|title=Effie Gray: Fair Maid of Perth|date=2012|pages=291|isbn=978-1908645098|publisher=Melrose Books|language=en}}</ref>