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Robert Gregory
1727-1810Merchant and officialEurope · 1727Most named place: Kent (approximate)
Robert Gregory was an Irish merchant active in trade with East Indies and politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1768 to 1784.
He was born as the only son of Henry Gregory of Galway and his wife Mary Shawe. In the service of the English East India Company Gregory went to India and made a considerable fortune there. He returned back to England in 1766 and settled in Kent. There he married Maria Auchmuty, daughter of an official of the East India Company with whom he had three sons.
Gregory served as a director of the East India Company between 1769 and 1782, and the chairman of the company.
Interested in politics, Gregory served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone (1768-1744) and for Rochester (1774-1784).
