A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gregory, Cave
GREGORY. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Cave Gregory entered the Navy, 10 April, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Alert 18, Capt. Jas. Johnstone, employed in watching the Boulogne flotilla. After serving for some time also with the same officer in the Curieux 18, off Lisbon; he removed, in March 1806, to the Pomone 38; in which frigate he continued to be employed, under Capts. Wm. Grenville Lobb and Robt. Barrie, on the Channel and Mediterranean stations, chiefly as Midshipman, until wrecked, while on his passage home, on the Needles Point, 14 Oct. 1811. During his servitude with the last-mentioned officer, he appears, independently of a participation in many cutting-out aftairs, to have assisted, in company with the Unité 36, and Scout 18, at the destruction, on 1 May, 181 1, after a gallant action of an hour and a half in Sagone Bay, where the Pomone incurred a loss of 2 men killed and 19 wounded, ot the two armed store-ships Giraffe and Nourrice each mounting from 20 to 30 guns, and protected by a 5-gun battery, a martello-tower, and a body of about 200 regular troops. In Dec. 1811, Mr. Gregory joined the Cephalus 18, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford; and in the course of the following year we find him engaged, in company with the Euryalus frigate and Pilot brig, in a five hours’ attempt to destroy a convoy and some land batteries on the coast of Calabria, on which occasion the Cephalus had her First-Lieutenant, Mr. Jenkins, killed, and 19 men wounded, besides suffering considerably in her masts and rigging. In consequence of this event he was for a short time invested with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant. Until officially promoted 8 Feb. 1815, he afterwards served, on the Mediterranean, Channel, and Cork stations, in the Ajax 74, Capt. Sir Robt. Laurie, Horatio 38, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, and Bonne Citoyenne 20, Capt. A. W. J. Clifford, under whom he again officiated as Acting-Lieutenant. He has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Gregory married, 17 Oct. 1840, Louisa, daughter of the late Rev. T. Sheepshanks, of Wimpole, co. Cambridge. Agent – Frederick Dufaur.