GRAHAME, Robert. b. Stockwell st., Glasgow 1759; the leading democrat of the West of Scotland 1793; the first Lord Provost of Glasgow after enactment of Burgh Reform; leading partner of firm of Grahame and Mitchell of Glasgow, writers. d. Hatton hall, Northamptonshire 28 Dec. 1851.
GRAINGER, Richard. b. Newcastle upon Tyne 1796; ed. at St. Andrew’s charity sch. there; apprenticed to a carpenter; erected Eldon square, Leazes terrace and crescent, the Arcade, Grey st., Grainger St., Market st., Clayton st. and Clayton st. west, all in Newcastle upon Tyne 1826–31; purchased the Elswick estate on the Tyne for £200,000. d. West Clayton st. Newcastle upon Tyne 4 July 1861. Once a week, v, 401–406 (1861).
GRAINGER, Richard Dugard (son of Edward Grainger of Birmingham, surgeon). b. Birmingham 1801, ed. at gr. school there and Woolwich, at St. Thomas’ and Webb st. sch.; M.R.C.S. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843; kept a private anatomical school in Webb st. Borough, London 1822–42 when it was amalgamated with St. Thomas’s hospital; professor of anatomy and physiology at St. Thomas’s 1842–60; F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846; delivered Hunterian oration 1848; a cholera inspector 1849; an inspector under the Burials Act 1853 to death; one of Children’s employment comrs. 13 Feb. 1862; author of Elements of general anatomy 1829; Observations on the spinal cord 1837; Observations on the cultivation of organic science 1848; Sanitary report on cholera 1848–9. d. 6 Hornsey lane, Highgate 1 Feb. 1865. bur. Eltham 7 Feb. Medical times and gazette, i, 157–58 (1865).
GRAINGER, Thomas, b. Gogar green, Ratho near Edinburgh 12 Nov. 1794; civil engineer and surveyor in Edin. 1816; executed the Monkland and Kirkintilloch railway 1824, the first in Scotland on which ‘edge rails’ were used; partner with Mr. Miller 1825–45; executed Paisley and Renfrew railway 1834, Arbroath and Forfar line 1835, Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven line 183 , Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee lines 1847; pres. of royal Scottish society of arts 2 years; M.I.C.E. 1829; F.R.S. Edin.; F.S.A. Edin. d. Stockton on Tees 25 July 1852 from injuries received in a collision of trains near Stockton on Tees 21 July. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 159 (1853).
GRANARD, George Arthur Hastings Forbes, 7 Earl of. b. Chilton hall, Suffolk 5 Aug. 1833; succeeded 9 June 1837; attaché to legation at Dresden 1852–54; lord lieut. of Leitrim, Nov. 1856 to July 1872; K.P. 30 Jany. 1857. d. Castle Forbes, co. Longford 25 Aug. 1889. I.L.N. xlii, 181 (1862), portrait.
GRANGER, Thomas Colpitts (eld. son of Joseph Granger of Durham). Barrister I.T. 14 May 1830, bencher 1850; recorder of Hull 1847 to death; Q.C. 1850; contested city of Durham Jany. 1835 and July 1837; M.P. for city of Durham June 1841 to death; author of A supplement to the statutes by Sir W. D. Evans 1836; author with R. P. Tyrwhitt of Reports of cases in the Court of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber 1835–37, 1 vol. 1837; author with James Manning of Reports of cases in the Court of Common Pleas 1840–45, 7 vols. 1841–46. d. York 13 Aug. 1852 aged 50. bur. in vaults of Temple church, London.
GRANT, Sir Alexander, 8 Baronet (elder son of Sir Robert Innes Grant, 7 baronet 1794–1856). b. New York 13 Sep. 1826; ed. at Harrow and Balliol coll. Ox., scholar 1844–9, fellow 1849–60, hon. fellow 1882; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852, D.C.L. 1860; examiner for Indian civil service 1855; inspector of schools in Madras 1859; professor of history and political economy in Elphinstone coll., Madras 1860, principal 1862; vice chancellor of Univ. of Bombay 1863–5 and 1865–8; director of public instruction in Bombay 1865; member of legislative council of Bombay 1868; vice chancellor and principal of Univ. of Edin. 6 July 1868 to death, installed 3 Nov. 1868; devised and carried out tercentenary festival 1884; F.R.S. Edin. 1869; author of The story of the University of Edinburgh during its first three hundred years 1884 and other books. d. 21 Landowne crescent, Edinburgh 30 Nov. 1884. W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 6, 7–17; Trans. of Royal Soc. of Edin. (1885).
GRANT, Sir Alexander Cray, 6 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Alexander Grant, 5 baronet, who d. 25 July 1825). b. Bowring’s Leigh, Devon 30 Nov. 1782; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; member of colonial assembly of Jamaica 1810–11; M.P. for Tregony 1812–18, for Lostwithiel 1818–26, for Aldborough 1826–30, for Westbury 1830–32, for town of Cambridge 1840–43; contested Great Grimsby 1835 and Honiton 1837; chairman of committees of house of commons 1826–32; a member of board of control for India 20 Dec. 1834 to 29 April 1835; a comr. for auditing public accounts 1843 to death. d. Somerset house,? London 29 Nov. 1854.
GRANT, Ven. Anthony (youngest son of Thomas Grant of Portsea). b. 31 Jany. 1806; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1825–39; B.C.L. 1832, D.C.L. 1842; select preacher 1852 and 1861; C. of Chelmsford 1836; V. of Romford, Essex 1838–62; V. of Aylesford, Kent 1862–77; archdeacon of St. Albans 1846 to death; archdeacon of Rochester 1863–82; canon of Rochester 1860 to death; author of The past and prospective extension of the gospel to the heathen 1844, a Bampton lecture which marked an epoch in mission work. An historical sketch of the Crimea 1855 and other books. d. 11 Royal crescent, Ramsgate 25 Nov. 1883.
GRANT, Charles. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 22 April 1819, col. 16 Feb. 1861, col. commandant 11 Jany. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. 3 Suffolk sq., Cheltenham 13 Jany. 1882.