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ON February 2 the centenary occurred of the death of Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, who for many years held the chair of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was one of the promoters of the University of London, now University College. He was born on January 29, 1774, at Yaxley, Huntingdonshire, and he owed his first knowledge of mathematics to the Leicestershire botanist and agricultural writer, Richard Weston. At the age of nineteen he published a volume of “Lessons Astronomical and Philosophical”, and about the same time, like many of his contemporaries, contributed to the “Ladies' Diary”, an almanac and serial collection of mathematical papers, commenced in 1704 by John Tipper, and, like all almanacs, published by the Stationers' Company. His writings brought him to the notice of Charles Hutton, the professor of mathematics at Woolwich, and after a few years spent in teaching, bookselling, and newspaper editing at Cambridge, in 1802 he became a master at the Royal Military Academy, and five years later, on Hutton's retirement, he was made professor, holding his chair for thirty-one years.
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Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, F.R.S. (1774–1841). Nature 147, 204 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147204c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147204c0