GREGORY, CHARLES, brother of David Gregory (qv); b.; in under school list 1715; KS (aged 14) 1720; d. 2 Nov 1724. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
GREGORY, CHRISTOPHER, son of James Christopher Gregory, solicitor, Registrar Chertsey County Court, and Anne, dau. of John Read, Hadley, Middlesex; b. 4 Jul 1853; adm. 24 Sep 1868 (G); left Aug 1869; Lincoln Theol. College 1874; ordained deacon 1876, priest 1877 (both Lincoln); Curate, St. Swithun, Retford, Notts. 1876-9, Folkestone, Kent 1879-85, Woolverstone, Suffolk 1889-93; Chaplain, St. Andrew’s Home, Folkestone, Kent 1893-1911, St. Mark’s, Regents Park, London, from 1912; m. 1892 Annie Gertrude, fourth dau. of John Nisbet, Easington Grange, Northumberland; d. 1920.
GREGORY, DAVID, eldest son of David Gregory MD FRS, Savilian Prof. of Astronomy, Oxford Univ., and Elizabeth Oliphant, Langtoun, Scotland; bapt. 15 Jul 1696; adm.; QS (aged 14) 1710; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1714, matr. 4 Jun 1714, Westminster Student 28 Mar 1715 – void 18 May 1736 (expiry year of grace as R. Semley); BA 1718; MA 1721; BD 13 Mar 1731/2; DD 1732; Professor of Modern History and Languages, Oxford Univ. 18 Aug 1724 – 21 May 1736, the first to hold the chair; ordained; Rector of Semley, Wilts. 1735; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 8 Jun 1736 – May 1756, Dean from 18 May 1756; Master of Sherborne Hospital, Durham, from 15 Sep 1759; Prolocutor, Lower House of Convocation 1761; a good modern linguist; bequeathed many valuable books to Christ Church Library; m. 1 Mar 1743/4 Lady Mary Grey, youngest dau. of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent KG; d. 16 Sep 1767. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
GREGORY, EDMUND; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1650 (Chester, Westminster Abbey Registers, 144); drowned with Southwell Peacock (qv); buried Westminster Abbey Cloisters 13 Aug 1650. [Perhaps son of Nicholas Gregory, bapt. Wandsworth, Surrey 4 Dec 1642].
GREGORY, FRANCIS, son of Francis Gregory, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, and Anne Smart, Wendlebury, Oxfordshire; b. ; adm. ; Min. Can. 1636 (Francis Nash Gregory), 1637; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1641, adm. pens. 16 Jun 1641, scholar 1642, matr. Easter 1642; BA 1644/5; MA 1648; DD Oxford 22 Sep 1661 (then of St. Mary Hall, Oxford); an Usher at the School c. 1650; Head Master, Woodstock Grammar School 1654, subsequently Head Master Witney Grammar School; ordained; Rector of Wick Rissington, Gloucs. 1670; Rector of Hambleden, Bucks. , from 8 Jul 1671; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II 1672; author of a Greek-Latin lexicon, 1654, and of two other books for the use of Westminster School, also of several theological treatises; m. five times, his fifth wife, who he m. 28 Oct 1679 (IGI), being Mary, dau. of John Wallis, London, citizen and goldsmith ; d. Jun 1707. DNB.
GREGORY, HENRY, third son of Francis Gregory (qv), by his fifth wife; b.; adm.; QS 1703; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1707, matr. 17 Jun 1707, aged 18, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1707 – void 1727, Tutor 1712-26, Junior Censor 1715-9, Senior Censor 1720-1; BA 1711; MA 19 Jan 1713/4; Proctor 1721-2; Reader of Moral Philosophy 5 Jan 1722; ordained deacon 8 Jun 1718, priest 20 Sep 1719 (both Oxford); Vicar of Staverton, Northants., from 22 Sep 1726; d. 2 Mar 1727/8.
Gregory, John Sheridan, younger son of Gregory Marcar Gregory, of West Kensington, by Edith Laura, second daughter of. John Sheridan, of Earl's Court; b. Sept. 15, 1889; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left July 1907; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1908; B.A. and LL. B. 1911; adm. to the Middle Temple Nov. 1913; 2nd Lieut. A. S. C. (Spec. Res.) Aug. 15, 1914, and went out to France three days later; Supply Officer to the 9th Cavalry Brigade April 13, 1915 - Aug. 24, 1917; temp. Lieut. Aug. 1, 1915; Lieut. Feb. 23, 1916; temp. Capt. June 25, 1916, attached to R. F. C. and returned to England in Aug. 1917; returned to France as a qualified Observer Oct. 16, 1917; joined No. 16 Squadron R. F. C. Oct. 18, transferred to No. 35 Squadron Nov. 20; Capt. Nov. 29, 1917; killed in action, being shot down in an encounter with a German machine between Lempire and Epehy, Feb. 19, 1918; unm.
Gregory, Sewell Harding, brother of Cecil Harding Gregory (q.v.); b. Aug. 11, 1873; adm. Sept. 16, 1886 (R); left Dec. 1889; a manufacturer; m. Dec. 12, 1919, Florence Edith, daughter of Charles de Wane, of Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh; d. Feb. 1, 1932.
GREGORY, WILLIAM COPE, eldest son of William Gregory, How Caple, Herefs., and Wessington Court, Woolhope, Herefs., and Susan, eldest dau. of William Brydges, Serjeant at Law; b. 1721; adm. (aged 15) Oct 1736 (Taylor's); left 1739; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1739; of How Caple and Wessington, Herefs.; High Sheriff, Herefs. 1758; m. 1st, 3 Nov 1750 Beatrice, dau. of Samuel Smith, Ruckley, Shropshire; m. 2nd, Dec 1761 Jane, dau. of Rev. Edward Stillingfleet, Rector of Hartlebury, Worcs.; d. 10 Feb 1789.
Greig, David Robertson, son of Charles John Greig, med. practitioner, of Ealing, and Mary Darling, d. of John Wight Robertson; b. 18 Feb. 1908; adm. May 1922 (A); left Apr. 1927; successively an area road manager, Parly officer and Automobile Assn executive; OBE 1968; m. 21 May 1938 Dallas Audrey, d. of William Henry Dean; d. 29 Dec. 1981.