Background
Gregory was born about 1615, the son of Henry Gregory, rector of, and benefactor to, Sherrington, Wiltshire.
Gregory was born about 1615, the son of Henry Gregory, rector of, and benefactor to, Sherrington, Wiltshire.
Trinity College.
He entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1632, and proceeded Bachelor of Arts 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 Saint John,’ Octavo, London, 1646.
To this work is prefixed a portrait of the author in his thirty-first year, engraved by West. Marshall.
An Edmund Gregory, a resident of Cuxham, Oxfordshire, and described as an ‘esquire,’ died at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 1691.