Francis Gregor (1 June 1760 – 12 July 1815) was an

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landowner in

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for the Cornwall county constituency from 1790 to 1806.

Life

Gregor was born on 1 June 1760 in

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, the son of Cpt Francis Gregor (born 1728), owner of the Trewarthenick Estate and Mary Copley. His younger brother was the Rev.

William Gregor William Gregor (25 December 1761 – 11 June 1817) was an English clergyman and mineralogist who discovered the elemental metal titanium. Early years He was born at the Trewarthenick Estate in Cornwall, the son of Francis Gregor and Mary Co ...

, the mineralogist. He was educated at Truro Grammar School,

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and

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, where he graduated B.A. as third wrangler in 1782, before being admitted to study law at

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in 1783. He was

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in 1788–1789, and on 10 July 1790 was elected as one of the

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for

, " after a severe and protracted contest".Burke's ''Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry 1847''. on Googlebooks, (Accessed 20 March 2008)
/ref> Elected unopposed in 1796 and 1802, he retired from the House of Commons in 1806. In 1802 he was elected a Fellow of the

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his proposers being

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, Alexander Fraser Tytler and

Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet of Edinburgh FRSE (24 December 1766 – 18 September 1829) was a Scottish landowner and politician. He served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Lord Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh. Life William was the s ...

. Gregor was married twice: first to Catherine, daughter of William Masterman, of

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; second, in 1795, to Jane, daughter of William Urquhart, of

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, Aberdeenshire. He died 12 July 1815 at the age of 55. At his death, his brother, William, inherited the Trewarthenick Estate. His ''Works'' were published by Thomas Flindell of Exeter, by subscription, in 1816. The book was reviewed in ''The Augustan Review'' in 1816. The review includes substantial extracts from the book and an obituary notice (stating that he studied at Cambridge and the Inns of Court).The Augustan Review Vol 3, Jul to December 1816, pp 487-493.
(Accessed 20 March 2008). Three volumes of the ''Augustan Review'' were published from May 1815 to December 1816.

References

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