GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9), British painter born at Southampton, began to work at the age of 15 in the engineer's drawing office of the Peninsula and Oriental Ship ping Company. Afterwards he studied at South Kensington and, about 1871, he entered on a successful career as an illustrator. He developed also into an admirable painter in oil and water colour. He was elected associate of the Royal Academy in 1883, acade mician (R.A.) in 1898 and president of the Royal Institute of Painters in 1898. His work was distinguished by remarkable technical qualities, by exceptional firmness and decision of draughtsmanship and by unusual certainty of handling. His "Marooned," a water colour, is in the National Gallery of British Art. Many of his pictures were shown at Burlington House at the winter exhibition of 1909-10, after his death at Marlow on June 22, 1909. He exhibited many good portraits at the Academy but his water colours brought the highest price at a sale of his pictures at Christie's in 19o5.