Person

Gregory, John Walter (1864 - 1932)

FRS

Born
27 January 1864
Bow, England
Died
2 June 1932
Urumamba River, Peru
Occupation
Geologist and Geographer

Summary

John Gregory was Professor of Geology, University of Melbourne from 1899 and was Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria from 1901-1904. He left Melbourne in 1904 to take up a chair at the University of Glasgow.

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Chronology

1899 - 1901
Career position - Professor of Geology, University of Melbourne
1901 - 1904
Career position - Director, Geological Survey of Victoria
1904
Career position - President, Section E (Geography), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1904 - 1929
Career position - Professor of Geology, University of Glasgow, Scotland
1905 - 1932
Award - Fellow, Royal Society of Eeinburgh

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Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • John Walter Gregory - Records, 1975; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Howchin, Walter, The geography of South Australia, including the Northern Territory : historical, physical, political and commercial: with an introduction by J.W. Gregory (Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1909), 320 pp. Details
  • Leake, B. E., The Life and Work of Professor J. W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932): Geologist, Writer and Explorer (London: Geological Society, 2011), 232 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Branagan, D. F., 'John Walter Gregory, 1864-1932' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
  • Lovering, J. F., 'Gregory, John Walter (1864-1932), geologist, geographer and explorer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 100-101. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090104b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Andrews, E.C., 'The Heroic Period of Geological Work in Australia.', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, lxxvi (1942), 96-128. Details
  • Branagan, David; Lim, Elaine, 'J.W. Gregory, Traveller in the Dead Heart', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (1) (1984), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9840610071. Details

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Reviews

  • Leake, B. E., The Life and Work of Professor J. W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932): Geologist, Writer and Explorer (2011)
    Darragh, Thomas A., Historical Records of Australian Science, 23 (2), (2012), 232-3, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12014. Details

See also

McCarthy, G.J.

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