| 词条 | Robert Gregory (MP) |
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Robert Gregory (1727 – 1 September 1810) was an Irish-born East India merchant and politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1768 to 1784. Gregory was the only son of Henry Gregory of Galway and his wife Mary Shawe. He went to India where he served with Honourable East India Company and made a considerable fortune. In 1766 he returned from India and settled in Kent.[1] In 1768, he acquired the Coole Park estate of 8,000 acres near Gort in County Galway in Ireland and built a house there.[2]{{Self-published inline|date=April 2013}}[3] Gregory was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone from 18 March 1768 – 8 October 1774.[4] He was then MP for Rochester, Kent from 7 October 1774 to 1 April 1784.[5] He was also a director of the East India Company between 1769 and 1782 and then chairman briefly before he retired through ill-health. Gregory married Maria Auchmuty, daughter of an official of the East India Company, and they had three sons. Of these, William Gregory was civil-under secretary for Ireland from 1812 to 1830 and was the father of another Robert Gregory, who died in 1847 from a disease he contracted ministering to his sick tenants.[6] He in turn was the father of William Henry Gregory.[1] References1. ^1 Gregory family papers {{s-start}}{{s-par|gb}}{{succession box|before=Rose Fuller2. ^Lady Augusta Gregory 3. ^Coole Park and Gardens 4. ^{{rayment-hc|m|1|date=March 2012}} 5. ^{{rayment-hc|r|2|date=March 2012}} 6. ^{{Citation | last = Cooke | first = Colman M.| author-link = | author2-link = | title = Lady Gregory's Journals, Volume One, Books One to Twenty Nine, 10 October 1916-24 February 1925 by Daniel J. Murphy (book review)| journal = Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society | volume = 37 | issue = | pages = 97–101 | origyear = 1979| year = 1980 | month = | language = | jstor = 25550117| doi = | id = | mr = | zbl = | jfm = }} with William Northey|title=MP for Maidstone with Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney Horatio Mann|years=1768–1774|after=Horatio Mann with Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford}}{{succession box|before=George Finch-Hatton|title=MP for Rochester with George Finch-Hatton|years=1774–1784|after=Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham with Nathaniel Smith}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gregory, Robert}} 9 : 1729 births|1810 deaths|People from Maidstone|People from Rochester, Kent|British MPs 1768–74|British MPs 1774–80|British MPs 1780–84|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies|Directors of the British East India Company |
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