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Robert Gregory
Born 9 February 1819 Died 2 August 1911
Robert Gregory (9 February 1819 – 2 August 1911) was an
Anglican
Dean .
[1]
Early life
Gregory was born on 9 February 1819.
[2] He was educated at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford . There he won the Denyer Theological Prize Essay Prize.
[3]
He was ordained in 1843
[4] and began his career with a
curacies at
Bisley ,
Wragby , and
Lambeth . Gregory was later
Vicar of St Mary the Less in
Lambeth
[5] from 1853 to 1873. After this, he was a
Canon at
St Paul's Cathedral
[6] before succeeding to the
Deanery
[7] in 1891.
[8] In 1873, he was elected to the
School Board for London .
[9] He died on 2 August 1911.
[10]
Family
Gregory married in 1844 Mary Frances. They had two sons, including
Francis Ambrose Gregory , who later became
Bishop of Mauritius . His wife died in 1851, and ten years later he married Charlotte Anne Stopford. By his second marriage, he had three daughters who survived him. The last was
Alice Gregory , who revolutionised the training of British midwifery by setting up the
British Hospital for Mothers and Babies .
[11]
Notes
^ ”The Deans”, Beeson,T.R: London, SCM, 2004;
ISBN
0-334-02987-2
^
“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London,
A & C Black , 1991
ISBN
0-7136-3457-X
^ Church Bells Vol.5 No.208 (19 December 1874) W. Wells Gardner, Publisher, London
^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
^
"British History on-line" .
^ ‘Gregory , Robert, Dean of St Paul's (1819–1911) ’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Buckland, A. R., rev. Matthew, H. C. G. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Sept 2004)
ISBN
0-19-861411-X
^ Robert, Gregory (8 May 1912).
"Robert Gregory, 1819-1911: being the autobiography of Robert Gregory, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, with portraits and other illustrations" . Longmans, Green – via The Open Library.
^
The Times , Friday, 23 January 1891; pg. 9; Issue 33229; col F New Dean of St Paul's
^ "The London School Board Elections". Daily News . 29 November 1873.
^ Death Of Dr. Gregory. A Great Ecclesiastical Reformer
The Times Thursday, Aug 03, 1911; pg. 8; Issue 39654; col A
^
June Hannam, ‘Gregory, Alice Sophia (1867–1946)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
accessed 29 April 2017
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