Robert Gregory (9 February 1819 – 2 August 1911) was an

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Early life

Gregory was born on 9 February 1819. He was educated at

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. There he won the Denyer Theological Prize Essay Prize.''Church Bells'' Vol.5 No.208 (19 December 1874) W. Wells Gardner, Publisher, London He was ordained in 1843 and began his career with a curacies at Bisley,

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, and

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. Gregory was later

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of St Mary the Less in

from 1853 to 1873. After this, he was a

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before succeeding to the

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in 1891. In 1873, he was elected to the School Board for London. He died on 2 August 1911.''Death Of Dr. Gregory. A Great Ecclesiastical Reformer''

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Thursday, Aug 03, 1911; pg. 8; Issue 39654; col A

Family

Gregory married in 1844 Mary Frances. They had two sons, including Francis Ambrose Gregory, who later became

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. 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

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. June Hannam, ‘Gregory, Alice Sophia (1867–1946)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gregory, Robert 1819 births 1911 deaths Clergy from Nottingham Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Deans of St Paul's Members of the London School Board