Christopher Clive Langton Gregory (13 May 1892 – 24 November 1964) was a British
astronomer
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, who established the
University of London Observatory
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History
The Observator ...
. He was born in
Parkstone
Parkstone is an area of Poole, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It is divided into 'Lower' and 'Upper' Parkstone. Upper Parkstone – "Up-on-'ill" as it used to be known in ...
, Dorset and lived in
Swanage
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, Dorset in 1911 and in
Hendon
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, Middlesex in 1939. He died in
Crookham-with-Ewshott, Hampshire.
Gregory's son by his first wife, Helen Patricia (née Gibson), was psychologist
Richard Gregory
Richard Langton Gregory, (24 July 1923 – 17 May 2010) was a British psychologist and Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol.
Life and career
Richard Gregory was born in London. He was the son of Christopher Clive Lan ...
(1923–2010). His second wife was
Anita Gregory
Anita Gregory (née Kohsen; 9 June 1925 – 7 November 1984) was a German-born British psychologist and parapsychologist.[National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery may refer to:
* National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra
* National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), in Mariefred
*National Portrait Gallery (United States), in Washington, D.C.
*National Portrait Gallery, London
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has a photograph of Gregory taken in 1939.
References
External links
Obituaryat
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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, Vol. 7, p. 81, by
E. Margaret Burbidge
1892 births
1964 deaths
People from Parkstone
20th-century British astronomers
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