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and America, and took part in the starting of a West China 
Christian University. 
“ He always thought the best of people there was in 
him a certain goodness that seemed to spring from his very 
nature ; and above all he was transparently sincere.” 
He was interred in the Friends’ burial ground at Reigate ; 
and for many years he and his nephew Anthony were two of 
the chief friends of the late C. E. Salmon. — H. S. T. 
Eliza Standerwick Gregory (1840-1932). 
Mrs. Gregory, nee Barnes, was born at Thrapton, North ants, 
and when two years old moved with her parents to Trow- 
bridge, Wilts, where from early childhood she was fondly 
interested in flowers, and quite soon became helpful to other 
youthful botanists. In 1863 she married Mr. Arthur Gregory 
of that town. The family moved to Weston-super-Mare in 
1885, and in 1887 Mrs. Gregory founded a school for boys, 
with the help of her daughter and elder son. Field botany 
and natural history were a feature of the education. Her 
younger son, the late Reginald P. Gregory, afterwards 
Lecturer in Botany at the University of Cambridge, was one 
of the boys at the school in the beginning. 
In 1904 Mr. and Mrs. Gregory moved to Cambridge. In 
Somerset and elsewhere she had become much interested in 
Violets, and this was specially developed at Cambridge, where 
a plot in the Botanical Gardens was allotted to her, in which 
she was able to grow and study the life-history of specimens 
received from England and the Continent. Her well illustrated 
monograph on “ British Violets,” for which the late G. C. 
Druce wrote an interesting Introduction, was published in 
1912. Between 1904 and 1923 four of her articles and notes 
on Violets appeared in the Journal of Botany. 
Mrs. Gregory examined for many years the Violets con- 
tributed to both the Exchange Clubs, her last note appearing 
in this publication so recently as 1929, when a very aged lady. 
She was a member of this Club for about 28 years, until 1919, 
but she only rarely contributed a few specimens. When in 
1919 she left Cambridge to return to Weston-super-Mare, 
Mrs. Gregory presented her herbarium to the British Museum 
(Nat. Hist.). She died aged 91, at Weston-super-Mare, 
March 22, 1932, and was buried in the town cemetery. 
Most of the above is taken from a notice by the present 
writer in Journ. Bot., May, 1932. — H.S.T. 
