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Gregory a strikingly powerful countenance.’ He says that Gregory's popularity was increased by his controversies. He was never selfish nor entirely wrong in them; and the public preferred the best laugher, though with the worst cause. Gregory, in fact, won general regard among all classes of people outside his profession. He was frequently very generous, especially to his pupils.

Gregory's principal writings are: 1. ‘De morbis cœli mutatione medendis,’ 1774. 2. ‘Conspectus medicinæ theoreticæ,’ 1780-2; many editions and translations into English were published. 3. ‘Philosophical and Literary Essays,’ 2 vols. 1792. 4. ‘Answer to Dr. James Hamilton, jun.,’ 152 pp., 1793. 5. ‘Memorial to the Managers of the Royal Infirmary’ (Edinburgh), 260 pp. 4to, 1800; 2nd ed. 483 pp. 1803. 6. ‘Additional Memorial to the Managers of the Royal Infirmary,’ pp. xxx, 513, 4to. 7. ‘Review of the Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh from 1753 to 1804,’ 32 pp. 1804. 8. ‘Censorian Letter to the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh,’ 142 pp. 4to, 1805. 9. ‘Defence before the Royal College of Physicians, including a postscript protest and relative documents,’ 700 pages 8vo, 1808. 10. ‘Historical Memoirs of the Medical War in Edinburgh in the years 1805, 6, & 7.’ 11. ‘Epigrams and Poems,’ Edinburgh, 1810.

John Bell's ‘Answer for the Junior Members,’ &c., 1800, and his ‘Letters on Professional Character and Manners,’ 1810; the ‘Narrative of the Conduct of Dr. J. G. towards the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Drawn up and published by order of the College,’ 1809; and Dr. Andrew Duncan senior's ‘Letter to Dr. Gregory,’ 1811 give detailed accounts of Gregory's quarrel with the physicians.

[London Medical Repository, 1821, xv. 423-9; Life of Sir R. Christison, i. 338, 339; Cockburn's Memorials, p. 105; Life of Sir Astley Cooper, i. 160-4; Gregory's writings.]  GREGORY, JOHN (1607–1646), orientalist, was born at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, of humble parentage, on 10 Nov. 1607. He became a servitor of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1624, being placed along with his ‘master,’ Sir William Drake of Amersham, under the tuition of George Morley, afterwards bishop of Winchester. For several years he spent sixteen hours a day in study. After graduating in arts B.A. 11 Oct. 1628, M.A. 22 June 1631 (, Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 438, 460), he took orders. Brian Duppa [q. v.], then dean of Christ Church, made him chaplain of the cathedral, and, on becoming a bishop, his own domestic chaplain. Gregory was not, however, as Gurgany and Wood assert, preferred by Duppa to any prebendal stall. The civil war deprived him of patron and stipend. He retired to an obscure alehouse on the green at Kidlington, near Oxford, kept by one Sutton, the father of a boy whom Gregory had bred up to attend on him. There he died on 13 March 1646, and, ‘by the contribution of one or more friends, his remains were carried to Oxford and buried on the left side of the grave of William Cartwright, in the aisle adjoining the south side of the choir of Christ Church Cathedral. Wood calls Gregory ‘the miracle of his age for critical and curious learning,’ and speaks of his ‘learned elegance in English, Latin, and Greek,’ his ‘exact skill in Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee, Arabic, Ethiopic, &c.,’ and his knowledge of the mathematical sciences and rabbinical and other literature. His only guide was John Dod [q. v.], who directed his Hebrew studies during one vacation at his benefice in Northamptonshire (, Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 205-7). Collective editions of his writings appeared as follows: 1. ‘Gregorii Posthuma : or certain learned Tracts : written by John Gregorie. … Together with a short Account of the Author's Life; and Elegies on his much-lamented Death,’ published by his dearest friend J[ohn] G[urgany], 4to, London, 1649. Some copies bear the date 1650 on the title-page. There are eight separate tracts, each with a separate title-page, but the whole is continuously paged. One of them, entitled ‘Discours declaring what time the Nicene Creed began to bee sung in the Church,’ contains a brief notice of early organs (, Biog. Univ. des Musiciens, iv. 97). The dedication states that Sir Edward Bysshe [q. v.] had been a patron of Gregory and Gurgany. 2. ‘Gregorii Opuscula : or, Notes & Observations upon some Passages of Scripture, with other learned Tracts;’ the second edition (‘Gregorii Posthuma,’ &c.), 4to, London, 1650. ‘Works,’ in two parts, include the preceding, 4to, London, 1665; another edition, 2 pts. 4to, London, 1671; 4th edition, 2 pts. 4to, London, 1684-83. Two of his treatises were published separately: 1. ‘Notes’ on Sir Thomas Ridley's ‘View of the Civile and Ecclesiasticall Law. … The second edition, by J. G[regory], 4to, Oxford, 1634; other editions were issued in 1662, 1675, and 1676. 2. ‘Notes and Observations upon some Passages of Scripture. By I. G.,’ &c., 4to, Oxford, 1646, inscribed to Bishop Duppa. Translated into Latin by Richard Stokes and inserted in Pearson's ‘Critici Sacri’ (vol. ix. edit, 1660; vol. viii. edit. 1698). Gregory assisted Augustine Lindsell, bishop of 