Background
He was born at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on 10 November 1607, and was from a humble background.
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John Gregory
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Career
John Gregorie, was an English orientalist. 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. Foreign several years he spent sixteen hours a day in study.
After graduating Bachelor of Arts 11 October 1628, and Master of Arts 22 June 1631 he took holy orders.
Brian Duppa, then dean of Christ Church, made him chaplain of the cathedral, and, on becoming a bishop, his own domestic chaplain. The First English Civil War deprived him of patron and stipend.
He retired to an alehouse on at Kidlington, near Oxford. There he died on 13 March 1646.
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.
Anthony Wood called Gregory "the miracle of his age for critical and curious learning".
