affluent circumstances. Now, I do trust, that out of the number of people who have experienced his exertions, as a Professor at the Royal Miltary Academy, and also have benefitted by him as highly scientific individual, there may be found some who will subscribe to the benefit of the widow and family of that excellent man. I remain, sir, C. D., M.P., One of Dr. O. G.'s pupils at the R.M.Ac., Woolwich Edinburgh, Feb. 13. Affiliations Many in this list are cited in the University of St Andrews website. Corresponding Associate of the Academy of Dijon Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York Member of the New-York Historical Society Member of the Literary and Philosophical, and the Antiquarian Societies of Newcastle upon Tyne Member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers Founder member, and later Secretary, of the Astronomical Society Professor Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich Co-founder and first president of the Woolwich Institution for the Advancement of Literary, Scientific and Technical Knowledge In 1802 Gregory was appointed editor of the Gentlemen's Diary, and from 1819 to 1840 editor of the Lady's Diary. From 1817, “he had the whole of the general superintendence of the almanacks published by the Stationers’ Company.” Family Gregory married, first, Rebecca Marshall on 4 March 1798 in Yaxley, with whom he had a son James and a daughter Eliza; Rebecca died in June 1807. His second marriage was to Anne Beddome on 20 December 1809 at St Mary, Newington, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. Their elder son, Boswell Robert was accidentally drowned in the Thames at Woolwich in the summer of 1834, aged 21. Letitia Elizabeth Landon includes a poetical illustration, to a portrait by Richard Evans, commiserating with this event in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835. Their second son, Charles Hutton Gregory, who later became president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, was named after Charles Hutton, Gregory's patron. Anne died in Paddington in 1855, aged 65, and was buried at St Nicholas, Plumstead. Works References Notes 1774 births 1841 deaths 18th-century English mathematicians 19th-century English mathematicians 19th-century British astronomers Academics of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich People from Yaxley, Cambridgeshire Evangelical Anglicans English encyclopedists Writers about religion and science Committee members of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge