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Sir Richard Gregory, 1st Baronet

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29: 68:, and wrote textbooks on astronomy, chemistry, hygiene, physics and other scientific subjects. He was also a member of the Council of British Association for the advancement of science and Chairman of the Committee on Science Teaching in Secondary Schools. He was 128:
Gregory married Dorothy Mary Page (Dusky) on 27 Jan 1931. He died in September 1952, aged 88, when the baronetcy became extinct. Gregory was elected by the old students of the Royal College of Science to be president of the
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in 1919, for "remarkable public work in organising the British Scientific Products Exhibition". He subsequently served as editor of
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he always gave generous space to accounts of the activities of the International Scientific Unions." He was created a
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in the international scientific community. In 1924, he served as president of the
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Richard Arman Gregory was born in Bristol on 29 January 1864. His father was
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From 1947 to 1951, Gregory became President of the Ethical Union (now
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between 1919 and 1939, and was credited with helping to establish
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The Royal Society: List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660–2007
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Index

Richard Gregory (disambiguation)
Sir Richard Gregory, 1938
FRS
FRAS
John Gregory
Queen's College, London
knighted
Nature
Geographical Association
Baronet
Bristol
County of Gloucester
Royal Society
Humanists UK
H. N. Brailsford
Lord Chorley
Rationalist Association
Royal College of Science Association
Imperial College London




Stratton, F. J. M.
"Richard Arman Gregory. 1864–1952"
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society
doi
10.1098/rsbm.1953.0007
JSTOR
769219

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