Gregory was born in Virginia on July 8, 1804, and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1831 to 1840. He served as acting
Governor of Virginia in 1842-43 and then as a state court judge. Gregory died on April 9, 1884, and was buried at
Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. One of the men that Gregory enslaved,
John Dunjee, escaped and became a prominent Baptist preacher. His home in Richmond after 1849, the
Benjamin Watkins Leigh House, was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1969. ==References==