Edmund Gregory (author)
Edmund Gregory (born c.1616), was an English author.[1]
Gregory was born about 1615, the son of Henry Gregory, rector of, and benefactor to, Sherrington, Wiltshire. He entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1632, and proceeded B.A. on 5 May 1636. He wrote: An Historical Anatomy of Christian Melancholy, sympathetically set forth, in a threefold state of the soul. With a concluding Meditation on the Fourth Verse of the Ninth Chapter of St. John[1], London, 1646. To this work is prefixed a portrait of the author in his thirty-first year, engraved by W. Marshall. As he is not depicted in the habit of a clergyman of the church of England, Wood is probably wrong in his conjecture that he was episcopally ordained.[2]
He is not the Edmund Gregory, resident of Cuxham, Oxfordshire, and described as an "esquire", and who died at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 1691; who was a graduate of Merton College, Oxford.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Wright, Stephen. "Gregory, Edmund". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11461. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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