Background
Gregory was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Congregational Minister James Gregory and his wife Martha.
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Gregory was chairman of art publishers Percy Lund, Humphries & Company Limited., the Ganymed Press, and a director of The Burlington Magazine. He was a governor of Chelsea Polytechnic, Saint Martin’s School of Art and Bath Academy of Art at Corsham Court.
At the age of 23 he was already a printing and publishing manager in Bradford, Yorkshire, continuing the Country Press founded by Percy Lund.
Before the war he mixed in Surrealist circles, publishing their work. Together with Peter Watson, Herbert Read and Roland Penrose, he founded the International Cooperation Administration, generously assisting its financing, and he was on its management committee.
He funded some original and successful resident fellowships at Leeds University for young artists, musicians and poets – among whom were Regional Butler, John Heath-Stubbs, James Kirkup and Martin Froy. Gregory believed in the art and artists of his time, and his company Lund Humphries published exclusively the work of contemporary artists.
Among those he encouraged were Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Edward Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, Victor Pasmore, Eduardo Paolozzi and Barbara Hepworth.
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Membership
In 1946 he was a member of the organising committee of the Museum of Modern Artist
