George Gregory (Sussex MP) explained

George Burrow Gregory (29 January 1813 – 5 March 1892) was an English lawyer and Conservative politician.

Life and politics

Gregory was the son of John Swarbreck Gregory, a lawyer who was a member of the first council of the Law Society.^[1] He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a partner in firm of Gregory, Rowcliffe, Rowcliffe, and Rawle, solicitors^[2] and was treasurer of Foundling Hospital from 1857 to 1892.^[3]

In 1868 Gregory was elected Member of Parliament for East Sussex until it was replaced under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. He was then elected MP for East Grinstead and held the seat for a year until 1886.^[4]

Burrow died at the age of 79.

Burrow married Maria Teresa Price in 1847.

Notes and References

1. http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/documents/downloads/royalcharters.pdf The Charter of the Law Society
2. https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
3. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65560 The Foundling Hospital, Survey of London: volume 24: The parish of St Pancras part 4: King’s Cross Neighbourhood (1952), pp. 10-24. Date accessed: 30 April 2009
4. Web site: Leigh Rayment . 30 April 2009 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029190716/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ecommons1.htm . 29 October 2013 .