Christopher Clive Langton Gregory
(The first Director of the University of London Observatory).

at Mill Hill. As a physicist, Gregory became interested in the extra dimensions within the areas of the occult and paranormal phenomena, and who, with two friends, Molly Goldney & Harry Price (an author on such issues) and a few others, were able to rubbish the claims that  Borley Rectory was the most haunted home in Britain. He also considered 'time' and the scientific argument for human immortality, and the psychology concept of dreams, and the consequent ability of seeing the future. In about 1950, Gregory moved to Church Crookham in Hampshire. 

He moved into a  large, run down Edwardian house within the village, the true location now being unknown. In it's day, it was considered to have been quite grand, having been owned by a personal friend of the then King. It was demolished some years ago but was similar to his childhood home, being set in several acres of grounds also full of rhododendrons. Gregory re-married here when he was in his sixties, and went on to have a second family, consisting of two daughters Hillary and Catherine, who grew up in the village. 

Upon retiring as the Director of the University of the London Observatory in the mid 1950's, & having taught Astronomy in the Department of Physics in University College London, Gower Street, Gregory went on to create The Institute for the Study of Mental Images (ISMI), from his home in Church Crookham and in 1959 was able to fund and publish a book entitled :- "O-Structure: An Introduction to Psychophysical Cosmology (Church Crookham,

Hants: Institute for the Study of Mental Images)" written by himself and A. Kohsen. The 'O-Stucture' being his cosmological

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