C. C. L. Gregory Explained

C.C.L. Gregory
Birth Name:Christopher Clive Langton Gregory
Birth Date:13 May 1892
Birth Place:Parkstone, Dorset, England
Death Place:Crookham-with-Ewshott, Hampshire, England
Spouse:
  • Helen Patricia
Children:Richard Gregory
Occupation:Astronomer

Christopher Clive Langton Gregory (13 May 1892 – 24 November 1964) was a British astronomer, who established the University of London Observatory.[1]

Gregory was born in Parkstone, Dorset and lived in Swanage, Dorset in 1911 and in Hendon, Middlesex in 1939. He died in Crookham-with-Ewshott, Hampshire.[2]

His son by his first wife, Helen Patricia (née Gibson), was the psychologist Richard Gregory (1923–2010). His second wife was Anita (née Kohsen).

The National Portrait Gallery has a photograph of Gregory taken in 1939.[3]

References

  1. 1966QJRAS...7...81. . Christopher Clive Langton Gregory (obituary) . Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society . 7 . 81 . 1966.
  2. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LCDC-51N/christopher-clive-langton-gregory-1892-1964
  3. Web site: Christopher Clive Langton Gregory - National Portrait Gallery. 26 September 2018.

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