A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gregory, Thomas
GREGORY. (Commander, 1833. f-p., 21; h-p., 23.)
Thomas Gregory entered the Navy, 1 July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Texel 64, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, with whom he continued to serve, in the same ship, and in the Malabar 50, and Belliqueux 64, on the Home and East India stations, latterly as Lieutenant (commission dated 20 July, 1810), until Aug. 1811. During his attachment to the Belliqueux we find him assisting at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in Jan. 1806; the capture and destruction, on 27 Nov. following, of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs of war, and about 20 armed and other vessels, lying in Batavia roads; and the occupation, in 1809, of the Island of Rodriguez. His subsequent appointments were – 30 Sept. 1811, to the Dauntless sloop, Capt. Daniel Barber, on the Cork station – 13 Sept. 1813 to the Nymphen 36, Capts. John Hancock and Matthew Smith, employed, until 28 Aug. 1815, in the North Sea and Channel – in Aug. 1818, to the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, with whom he served in the Mediterranean until paid off about June, 1822 – 13 Dec. 1824, and 14 May, 1826, to the Rose 18, and Cambrian 48, Capts. Hon. Chas. Abbot and Gawen Wm. Hamilton, on the same station, where he commanded the boats of the latter ship at the capture of a piratical vessel – and, 22 Nov. 1830, after three years of half-pay, as First, to the Sapphire 28, Capts. Hon. Wm. Wellesley and Hon. Geo. Rolle Walpole Trefusis, attached to the force in the West Indies. Since the attainment of his present rank, 7 Jan. 1833, Commander Gregory has not held any official employment. He is the Senior officer of his rank on the List of 1833. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.