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David Gregory (historian)

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132: 96:. He died at the age of seventy-one, 16 September 1767, and was buried under a plain slab with a short Latin inscription in the cathedral, his wedding ring tied to his finger. Gregory was a considerable benefactor both to his college and Sherburne Hospital. 104:
Gregory wrote Latin verses, and testified his loyalty by Latin poems on the death of George I and the accession of George II, lamenting also in verse the death of the latter, and congratulating George III when he succeeded his grandfather.
43:, from which in 1714 he was elected to Christ Church. He graduated B.A. 8 May 1718, and M.A. 27 June 1721, and on 18 April 1724 became the first Professor of Modern History and Languages at Oxford. 142: 185: 54:; proceeding B.D. 13 March 1731 and D.D. in the following year (7 July 1732). He continued to hold his professorship till 1736, when he resigned it on his appointment to a 84:, where he started to cut down a wood on the hospital estates, and with the proceeds from the timber improved the accommodation, as mentioned by an anonymous eulogy 190: 24: 180: 175: 62:(installed 8 June). While canon (1750) he repaired and adorned Christ Church Hall, and presented to it busts of kings George I and George II. 147: 59: 36: 114: 65:
He was promoted to the deanery (installed 18 May 1756). Under his directions while dean the upper rooms in the
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were finished (1761), and he is said to have restored the terraces in the great quadrangle (
159: 136: 81: 89: 51: 70: 19:(1696–16 September 1767) was an English churchman and academic, Dean of 55: 121:, who died before him (in 1762, aged 42), and lies in the same grave. 86:
Essay on the Life of David Gregory, late Dean of Christ Church, London
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He soon afterwards took orders and was appointed rector of
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On 15 September 1759 he was also appointed Master of
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Regius Professors of History (University of Oxford)
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Christ Church, Oxford
Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford
David Gregory
Westminster School
Semley
Wiltshire
canonry
Christ Church Cathedral
college library
Tom Quad
Sherburn Hospital
County Durham
prolocutor
Convocation House
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent
Lady Mary Grey
public domain
Gregory, David (1696-1767)
Dictionary of National Biography
Categories
1696 births
1767 deaths
Deans of Christ Church, Oxford
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Regius Professors of History (University of Oxford)
People educated at Westminster School

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