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GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREGORY, OLINTHUS See also:GILBERT (1774—1841) , See also:English mathematician, was See also:born on the 29th of See also:January 1774 at Yaxley in See also:Huntingdonshire. Having been educated by See also:Richard See also:Weston, a See also:Leicester botanist, he published in 1793 a See also:treatise, Lessons Astronomical and Philosophical. Having settled at See also:Cambridge in 1796, Gregory first acted as sub-editor on the Cambridge Intelligencer, and then opened a bookseller's See also:shop. In 1802 he obtained an See also:appointment as mathematical See also:master at See also:Woolwich through the See also:influence of See also:Charles See also:Hutton, to whose See also:notice he had been brought by a See also:manuscript on the " Use of the Sliding See also:Rule "; and when Hutton resigned in 1807 Gregory succeeded him in the professorship. Failing See also:health obliged him to retire in 1838, and he died at Woolwich on the 2nd of See also:February 1841. Gregory wrote Hints for the Use of Teachers of Elementary See also:Mathematics (184o, new edition 1853), and Mathematics for See also:Practical Men (1825), which was revised and enlarged by See also:Henry See also:Law in 1848, and again by J. R. See also:Young in 1862. His Letters on the Evidences of See also:Christianity (1815) have been several times reprinted, and an abridgment was published by the Religious See also:Tract Society in 1853. He will probably be longest remembered for his See also:Biography of See also:Robert See also:Hall, which first appeared in the collected edition of Hall's See also:works, was published separately in 1833, and has since passed through several See also:editions. The See also:minor importance of his Memoir of See also:John See also:Mason See also: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 See also:

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

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