Olinthus Gilbert Gregory (1774-1841)

Letter to unknown recipient. 29th September 1804. Regarding the corrected proof of the first sheetof the new Gent's diary.

Letter to unknown recipient. 21st April ? Regarding giving support to the recipient for a professorship.

Letter to unknown recipient. 7th April 1812. Regarding a course of lectures on the mechanical part of experimental philosophy.

Letter to Joseph Crosfields. 26th April 1814. Regarding war.

Letter to unknown recipient. 21st May ?. Regarding Mr Bruce's manuscript on his "Historical and Biographical Chart".

Letter to Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. 24th November 1817. Regarding Delambre's work "History of Ancient Astronomy" and remarks in reference to the "Pythagoras system".

Letter to Samuel Squire. 8th October1822. Regarding the work of Benjamin Pitts Capper on "British Statistics".

Letter to Rev, Dr, Cox, Librarian at London University. 25th January 1830. Regarding books to be placed in the library and presenting to the library his greatly corrected edition of "Hutton's Mathematical Tables".

Letter to Rev, Dr, Cox, Librarian at London University. 27th April 1830. Regarding books to be placed in the library and presenting to the library his greatly corrected edition of "Hutton's Mathematical Tables".

Note on "Precise point from which we can take an undistorted view of a picture" 18th February 1833.

Note on "Genuine Christianity is calculated to produce a twofold effect upon men ..." April 1839.

1804-1839

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Purchased from Sotheby's, London, February 1930 (acc.52480), July 1931 (acc.67540), and December 1931 (acc.75871); Desgranges, Paris, June 1930 (acc.67390), and July 1932 (acc.65635); Stevens, London, March 1931 (acc.56482); and Glendining, London, December 1931 (acc.67597), and August 1934 (acc.67863). Accession details for acc.92291 are not known.

Olinthus Gilbert Gregory was a mathematician of humble birth. He taught mathematics at Cambridge and was mathematical master of Woolwich in 1802. He completed a MA in Aberdeen in 1805 and a LL.D in 1808. He was Hutton's successor at Woolwich from 1807- 1838. He was one of the projecters of London University: published treatises on astronomy and letters on Christian evidences in 1811, and lives of John Mason Good and Robert Hall.