Robert Gregory

Who was Robert Gregory?

The Very Reverend Robert Gregory, DD was a reforming Anglican Dean in the last decade of the 19th century and the first one of the 20th. Born on 9 February 1819. he was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1843 and began his career with a curacies at Bisley, Wragby and Lambeth. He was then Vicar of St Mary the Less, Lambeth from 1853 to 1873. After this he was a Canon at St Paul’s Cathedral before succeeding to the Deanery in 1891. In 1873 he was elected to the School Board for London. He died on 2 August 1911. His son later became Bishop of Mauritius.