Sir Charles Hutton Gregory KCMG (14 October 1817 – 10 January 1898)[1] was an English civil engineer.

[2] Charles was the son of Dr Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, a master of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

[1] Gregory was consulting engineer of several major railway construction works, including those in Ceylon, Trinidad, Cape Colony, Perak and Selangor.

[5] There they saw experiments on more than 40 different varieties of colonial timber, including Karri wood and Jarrah from Western Australia, and Padouk from India.

“The grave is on the west side of the main avenue of Brompton Cemetery, not very far from the Richmond Road entrance”.