Robert Gregory (priest)
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| birth_date = 9 February 1819
| death_date = 2 August 1911
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Robert Gregory (9 February 1819 – 2 August 1911) was an Anglican Dean.”The Deans”, Beeson,T.R: London, SCM, 2004; {{ISBN|0-334-02987-2}}
Early life
Gregory was born on 9 February 1819.“Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 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"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889 and began his career with a curacies at Bisley, Wragby, and Lambeth. Gregory was later Vicar of St Mary the Less in Lambeth{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=47052|title=British History on-line}} from 1853 to 1873. After this, he was a Canon at St Paul's Cathedral‘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}} before succeeding to the Deanery{{Cite web|url=https://openlibrary.org/books/OL15090951M/Robert_Gregory_1819-1911|title=Robert Gregory, 1819-1911: being the autobiography of Robert Gregory, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, with portraits and other illustrations|first=Gregory|last=Robert|date=8 May 1912|publisher=Longmans, Green|via=The Open Library}} in 1891.The Times, Friday, 23 January 1891; pg. 9; Issue 33229; col F New Dean of St Paul's In 1873, he was elected to the School Board for London.{{cite news|title=The London School Board Elections|newspaper=Daily News|date=29 November 1873}} He died on 2 August 1911.Death Of Dr. Gregory. A Great Ecclesiastical Reformer The Times 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 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.
June Hannam, ‘Gregory, Alice Sophia (1867–1946)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56453, accessed 29 April 2017]
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