Sir Richard Gregory, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Arman Gregory, 1st Baronet FRS, FRAS (29 January 1864 – 15 September 1952) was a British astronomer and promoter of science. Some of his work was published as by Richard A. or R. A. Gregory.

Richard Arman Gregory was born in Bristol on 29 January 1864. He was also a member of the Council of British Association for the advancement of science and Chairman of the Committee on Science Teaching in Secondary Schools. He was knighted in 1919, for "remarkable public work in organising the British Scientific Products Exhibition". He subsequently served as editor of Nature between 1919 and 1939, and was credited with helping to establish Nature in the international scientific community. In 1924, he served as president of the Geographical Association. His obituary by the Royal Society stated: "Gregory was always very interested in the international contacts of science, and in the columns of Nature he always gave generous space to accounts of the activities of the International Scientific Unions." In 1933 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Under his tenure as editor-in-chief, Nature criticized the Nazi regime in Germany for repressing and expelling Jewish scientists. The Nazi regime banned Nature from German libraries in 1937. He was also an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist Association.