Greg, Samuel, an English layman, born at Manchester September 6, 1804. He died May 14, 1877. He was educated at Edinburgh University, and later became a mill owner. He was the author of Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, in which some of his short poems appeared. Some addresses given by him to his workmen at Bollington were published in 1877 as A Layman's Legacy, for which volume Dean Stanley wrote the preface. He wrote only a few hymns. He was a member of the Church of England.

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