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OLINTHUS GILBERT GREGORY (1774—1841)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OLINTHUS

GILBERT GREGORY (1774—1841)  ,
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English mathematician, was born on the 29th of
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January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire . Having been educated by Richard Weston, a Leicester botanist, he published in 1793 a
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treatise, Lessons Astronomical and Philosophical . Having settled at Cambridge in 1796, Gregory first acted as sub-editor on the Cambridge Intelligencer, and then opened a bookseller's
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shop . In 1802 he obtained an appointment as mathematical master at
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Woolwich through the influence of Charles Hutton, to whose
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notice he had been brought by a
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manuscript on the " Use of the Sliding
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Rule "; and when Hutton resigned in 1807 Gregory succeeded him in the professorship . Failing
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health obliged him to retire in 1838, and he died at Woolwich on the 2nd of
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February 1841 . Gregory wrote Hints for the Use of Teachers of Elementary Mathematics (184o, new edition 1853), and Mathematics for
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Practical Men (1825), which was revised and enlarged by Henry Law in 1848, and again by J . R . Young in 1862 . His Letters on the Evidences of
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Christianity (1815) have been several times reprinted, and an abridgment was published by the Religious Tract Society in 1853 . He will probably be longest remembered for his Biography of Robert Hall, which first appeared in the collected edition of Hall's
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works, was published separately in 1833, and has since passed through several
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editions . The minor importance of his Memoir of John Mason Good (1828) is due to the narrower fame of the subject . Gregory was one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society .

In 1802 he was appointed editor of the Gentlemen's

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Diary, and in 1818 editor of the Ladies' Diary and superintendent of the almanacs of the Stationers'
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Company .

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