Hopeton Gray was born in June 1950 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. He attended Montego Bay Senior School until the age of fifteen, and then continued his education at Spencer Park School in London. After leaving school, he joined Sainsbury Construction as a trainee draftsman, gaining the Ordinary National Certificate in Engineering, after which he worked around London as a freelance contract design engineer. At the age of twenty-nine, he was recruited by the Papua New Guinea government, where he worked on a three-year contract as an engineer in buildings. He then moved to Australia, where he gained his Masters of Engineering Science degree at the University of Sydney.
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