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Authorised form of nameGregory; John Walter (1864 - 1932); geologist and naturalist
Dates1864 - 1932
NationalityBritish
Place of birthGainsborough Road, Mile End Old Town, London, England
Date of birth27 January 1864
Place of deathThe rapids of the Urubamba River, Peru, South America
Date of death02/06/1932
Dates and placesBurial: The banks of Urubamba River, Peru, South America
Occupationgeologist and naturalist
Research fieldGlacial geology
Physical geography
Palaeontology
Geology
ActivityEducation:
Stepney grammar school; Birkbeck College BSc 1891; DSc 1893
Career:
Travelled to the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin of North America (1891); seconded to a proposed expedition to British East Africa (1892); joined Sir Martin Conway in the first crossing of Spitsbergen (1896); went to the West Indies (1899); appointed to the chair of geology and mineralogy at the University of Melbourne (1900); director of the geological survey of Victoria (1901); chair of geology at the University of Glasgow (1904-1929); drowned as a consequence of his canoe overturning on the Urubamba River, Peru (1932).
Memberships:
FGS (President 1928–30)
Awards/Medals:
Bugsby Medal 1905
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1901
Age at election37
ProposerEdwin Ray Lankester; Edwin Tulley Newton; Horace Bolingbroke Woodward; George Jennings Hinde
Thomas George Bonney; John Wesley Judd; William Thomas Blanford; Charles Alexander McMahon; Archibald Geikie; William Richard Gowers; Henry Woodward; Lazarus Fletcher
RelationshipsParents: John James Gregory, wool merchant, and Jane, née Lewis.
Spouse: Audrey (née Chaplin) (6 June 1895).
Published worksRCN 10575
RCN 14449
RCN 14523
RCN 14450
General contextGregory Rift in the Great Rift Valley is named after him.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 53-59, plate, by Percy George Hamnall Boswell
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/61611728
Royal Society codeNA1348
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1901/05Gregory, John Walter: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/001779Gregory, John Walternd
NLB/19/785Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to William Johnson Sollas, Fellow of the Royal Society[17 December 1899]
NLB/19/787Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Walter Gregory, British Museum, Natural History19 December 1899
NLB/20/168Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor John Walter Gregory, [Fellow of the Royal Society], The University, Melbourne, Victoria16 February 1900
NLB/19/797Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Walter Gregory, [Fellow of the Royal Society], British Museum, Natural History, Cromwell Road, S.W. 21 December 1899
NLB/19/796Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Chairman of the Zoology Sectional Committee21 December 1899
NLB/19/670Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society21 November 1899
NLB/19/832Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Abbott Herdman, Fellow of the Royal Society4 January 1900
NLB/25/33Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor John Walter Gregory, Fellow of the Royal Society[29 July 1902]
NLB/30/475Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor John Walter Gregory, Fellow of the Royal Society30 March 1905
MC/23/194Letter from [John Walter] Gregory, Geological Department, The University, Glasgow, to Sir Archibald Geikie, [The Royal Society]26 February 1908
NLB/39/307Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [John] W [Walter] Gregory, Fellow of the Royal Society16 December 1908
MC/27/234Letter from [Henry George] Lyons, The Science Museum, South Kensington, London, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]3 December 1912
NLB/46/635Copy letter from Henry George Lyons, to Dr Charles William Andrews, Alfred Harker, Dr George Jennings Hinde, Clement Reid, Professor Albert Charles Seward, Professor William Whitehead Watts, Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Professor John Walter Gregory7 October 1912
RR/20/135Referee's report by John Walter Gregory, on a paper 'The evolution of the cretaceous asteroidea' by William Kingdon Spencer21 March 1913
NLB/65/738Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Walter] Gregory, FRS14 December 1923
NLB/57/714Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John Walter] Gregory, FRS27 January 1920
NLB/54/411Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Walter] Gregory, FRS4 May 1917
NLB/68/235Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Walter] Gregory, FRS4 June 1925
NLB/72/395Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Francis Arthur] Bather, FRS30 September 1929
NLB/58/265Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Whitehead] Watts, Chairman of the Geology Committee and FRS13 April 1920
NLB/58/890Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Walter] Gregory, FRS30 June 1920
NLB/59/528Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Walter] Gregory, FRS13 October 1920
NLB/59/289Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Walter] Gregory, FRS28 August 1920
RR/14/164Referee's report by William Johnson Sollas, on a paper 'Polytremacis and the ancestry of Helioporidae' by John Walter Gregorynd [December 1899]
RR/14/165Referee's report by Alfred Cort Haddon, on a paper 'Polytremacis and the ancestry of Helioporidae' by John Walter Gregorynd [January 1900]
RR/14/163Referee's report by Sydney John Hickson, on a paper 'Polytremacis and the ancestry of Helioporidae' by John Walter Gregorynd [December 1899]
NLB/57/520Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor J W [John Walter] Gregory, FRS24 November 1919
NLB/57/443Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JW [John Walter] Gregory, FRS10 November 1919
NLB/57/825Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society;to Professor WW [William Whitehead] Watts, FRS14 February 1920
NLB/64/775Copy letter from [William Bate Hardy], Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Walter] Gregory, FRS15 June 1923
NLB/64/893Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor. [John Walter] Gregory, FRS7 July 1923
NLB/65/534Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Aubrey Strahan, FRS14 November 1923
NLB/66/60Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Walter] Gregory, FRS15 February 1924
NLB/66/31Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Walter] Gregory, FRS12 February 1924
NLB/66/330Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Walter] Gregory, FRS10 April 1924
NLB/57/897Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor WW [William Whitehead] Watts, FRS28 February 1920
NLB/66/363Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; [George William] Lamplugh Esq, FRS16 April 1924
NLB/72/377Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Walter] Gregory, FRS12 September 1929
NLB/73/151Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Walter] Gregory, FRS8 January 1931
CD/68/6Letter from [John Walter] Gregory, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society8 May 1917
RR/19/128Referee's report by John Walter Gregory, on a paper 'On Onychester, a Carboniferous brittle-star' by Igerna Brünhilda Johnson Sollas[December 1912]
RR/30/59Referee's report by Richard Dixon Oldham, on a paper 'The geology and physical geography of Chinese Tibet, and its relations to the mountain system of south-eastern Asia, from observations made during the Percy Sladen expedition, 1922' by John Walter Gregory and C J Gregory4 February 1924
MS/547/5/12Letter from J W [John Walter] Gregory, Bassetts, Little Baddow, Chelmsford,to A B [Alfred Bray] Kempe11 February 1901
NLB/59New Letter Book volume 59, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1920-2 December 1920
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
RR/30/60Referee's report by Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, on a paper 'The geology and physical geography of Chinese Tibet, and its relations to the mountain system of south-eastern Asia, from observations made during the Percy Sladen expedition, 1922' by John Walter Gregory and C J Gregory[February 1924]
RR/41/39Referee's report by John Walter Gregory, on a paper 'The geographical representation of the Mountains of Tibet' by Sidney Gerald Burrard12 April 1930
NLB/37/295Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Professor [John Walter] Gregory27 February 1908
MS/547/5/8Letter from J W [John Walter] Gregory, Bassetts, Little Baddow, Chelmsford, to unknown recipient [?Alfred Bray Kempe]6 February 1901
MC/31/61Letter from [John Walter] Gregory, Geological Department, University, Glasgow, to The Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W27 October 1916
MC/32/112Letter from [John Walter] Gregory, Geological Department, University, 4 Park Quadrant, Glasgow, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]18 January 1917
MC/32/113Letter from [John Walter] Gregory, Whitehall Hotel, Bloomsbury Square, W.C 1, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]4 October 1917
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