JOELN GREGORY, M.D., born at Aberdeen in 1724, and educated in the schools of that town, until be went to pursue his medical studies at Edinburgh, Leyden, and Paris. He filled successively the chairs of philosophy and medicine at Aberdeen, and that of the practice of physic in Edinburgh, to which last he was appointed in 1766. In 1772 be published his 'Elements of the Practice of Physic,' intended as a text-book for the use of his pupils, which he did not live to complete. His other principal works are, 'A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World,' 1765 ; and A Father's Legacy to his Daughters;poethumous,1793,1ong a most popular work on the character and moral training of the female sex. Ile was in high repute both as a teacher and as a practising physician, and his popularity was increased by the moral excellence and benevolence of his disposition. He was intimate with the most eminent men of the most brilliant period of Scottish literature, and possessed no mean share of the mathematical genius of his family. He was found dead in his bed on the 10th of February, having retired the night before in his usual health; and it is to this event that the mournful concluding stanzas of Beattie's ' Minstrel' refer. His works were collected in 4
vols. 12mo, 1788, prefaced with a life of the author by Mr. Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee). There is also a life of him by Mr. Smellie.
His eon, Dr. James Gregory, became afterwards professor of the practice of medicine at Edinburgh, arid a leading member of that distinguished school.
It is stated (Chalmers, ' Biog. Diet.,' p. 289) that no less than sixteen members of this family.have held British professorships, chiefly in the Scotch universities. (Brewster, ' Ed. Encycl. ;' Hutton, ' PhiL and Math. Diet.') Join( GREGORY, born in Buckinghamshire in 1607, deceased in 1647, a very learned divine of the English Church, and Gurnee GREGORY, an English clergyman, born 1754, deceased 1803, for many years editor of the 'New Annual Register,' and author of many works, religious, political, and miscellaneous, require no particular notice. Neither of them was connected with the Scotch family. For their works, and those of other authors of this name, see Watt's ' Bibl. Britann.'