The phrase "a former gathering" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a past meeting or assembly of people, often in a context discussing events or social interactions.
Example: "The report highlighted the key decisions made during a former gathering of the board members."
Alternatives: "a previous meeting" or "an earlier assembly".
Up on the edge of Clinton Hill, the Roosevelt Theater, a former gathering place for the neighborhood, has become a Christian religious storefront, its marquee gone and its architectural filigree painted over.
It also rerouted a road around a former gathering ground of medicinal plants and a rock that was, according to the council, imbued with spiritual properties.
After more than a decade of opposing a Dobbs Ferry housing development on a former Indian gathering site, Friends of Wickers Creek Archaeological Site, a community group, said it had reached a settlement with the developer, Summit Landing, a real estate company owned by Louis Cappelli.
They visit a diverse batch of small French towns in JR's van, a sort of mobile photo booth equipped with a poster-size printer, and they create a variety of large-scale public art projects to match their various encounters — exalting the traditions of a former mining town, gathering stories from dock workers' wives, and celebrating a goat farmer whose traditional methods rise to philosophy.
"The purpose of OPSEC is to keep the mission secure — anything that undermines that hurts OPSEC and the mission," Robert Hopkins III, a former commander of intelligence-gathering aircraft throughout the 1980s and '90s, told VICE News.
The sniping started when Mr. Gingrich, a former Fox News commentator, told a gathering of Tea Party supporters in Delaware that Fox News had distorted its coverage of him.
Speaking at the Syriza gathering in a former cinema, Tsipras reiterated the fact that caving in to the country's creditors was "not of our choice", but the only alternative was to leave the eurozone.
He was re-elected in 2005, his majority nearly 10,000 higher.It is still hard to stir up local enthusiasm for switching to an elected mayor, according to Liam Fogarty, a former BBC journalist who is gathering the 17,100 signatures needed for a referendum in Liverpool.
The gathering honored John C. Tucker, a former Chicago lawyer who died in October.
A former State Department official recalls a social gathering where he danced around the subject with the British Ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch.
Mr. Kaufman, a partner at the Proskauer Rose law firm in Manhattan and a former president of the City Bar Association, began gathering documents.
