 It is one of the last medium-sized music venues in the area, and is owned by a charity, the Gregson Community Association Limited, and managed on a daily basis by the committed Gregson Centre Ltd company.The Gregson Institute was founded in 1889 as a memorial to Henry Gregson.The Gregson family included his father Samuel Gregson and his brother Samuel Gregson, Mayor of the City of Lancaster and Liberal MP 1847, co-founder of the Natural History Museum, and one of the Victorians responsible for giving the world the word "dinosaur".