About Matthew Gregory
Lived 1693 – 1779 (aged 85–86). Matthew Gregory was a physician.
Matthew Gregory (1693–1779) was a plantation magnate and politician in Jamaica who sat in the House of Assembly of Jamaica for Saint James Parish in 1718 and 1722, and for Saint Ann in 1726. He also worked as a physician.
Gregory inherited the Swansey Estate in St. Thomas, Jamaica, named "Hordley" in homage to their ancestral home. He was a brother of John Gregory. Gregory died at age 86. According to the University College London, he owned 713 slaves at the time of his death. Hordley was inherited many years later by Matthew Gregory Lewis, his great-grandson, who recounted his experiences as the estate owner in his book titled Journal of a West India Proprietor.
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Who was Matthew Gregory?
jamaican-born planter, politician and physician (1693–1779)
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Matthew Gregory was born in 1693.
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Matthew Gregory died in 1779.
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Matthew Gregory was a physician.
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· DBpedia: Matthew Gregory (politician, died 1779)
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