GRANT, Sir James Robert (son of Duncan Grant of Mulochaird in Strathspey). b. Forres co. Moray Feb. 1773; assistant surgeon 22 Jany. 1792; inspector general of army hospitals 14 July 1814; chief of medical department at Waterloo; received order of St. Anne of Russia from Emperor Alexander at Paris 1815; K.H. 1816; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 18 March 1819; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850. d. Basford vicarage, Notts 10 Jany. 1864. bur. St. Mary’s churchyard, Carlisle 18 Jany.
GRANT, James William (son of Robert Grant). b. Wester Elchies, Morayshire 12 Aug. 1788; writer H.E.I.C.S. 22 July 1805 in Bengal; retired 1849; detected the companion of Antares 23 July 1844 two years before Mitchel perceived the duplicity of the star; erected an observatory at Elchies 1849, where he placed the Trophy telescope purchased from great exhibition of 1851, this was sold to Mr. Aytoun in 1864; F. R. Astronom. Soc. 13 Jany. 1854. d. Wester Elchies 17 Sept. 1865.
GRANT, John (brother of Sir Francis Grant 1803–78). b. 13 June 1798; master of Perthshire hounds 1836–41; chairman of Tay district board of salmon fishing; his residence Kilgraston house, Perthshire burnt 1872. d. London 20 Jany. 1873. Babington’s Fife foxhounds (1883) 66, portrait; Perthshire Constitutional 22 Jany. 1873 p. 2.
GRANT, John (eld. son of Ewen Grant). b. Glasgow 22 May 1819; assisted in Tithe commutation commission survey in Devon 1838; employed on Exeter and Yeovil railway 1845; assist, surveyor metropolitan commission of sewers April 1849, engineer 1852; assist. engineer metropolitan board of works 1856; superintended construction of numerous streets, sewers, pumping stations and the outfall works at Crossness; connected with construction of portions of Chelsea and Albert embankments; made successful experiments on use of portland cement 1858 etc.; M.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1861, Telford medal 1880; reported on Artizans’ dwellings, Glasgow 1877, Fish supply of London 1881, and on Sludge filter presses 1885. d. 48 Blessington road, Lee, Kent 24 March 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcii, 389–92 (1888).
GRANT, Sir John Thornton (eld. son of Wm. Charles Grant, captain 92 foot, killed at Waterloo 18 June 1815). b. Ireland 26 Dec. 1810; ensign 49 foot 28 April 1828, lieut. col. 22 Dec. 1854 to 3 Aug. 1860; lieut. col. 18 foot 3 Aug. 1860 to 28 May 1866 when placed on h.p.; brig. gen. Madras 1863–68, M.G. Bombay 1869–74; col. 94 foot 25 June 1879 to death; general 21 May 1880; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Upton park, Slough 16 Jany. 1886.
GRANT, Sir Lewis (younger son of Duncan Grant of Mulochaird in Strathspey). Ensign 95 foot 15 Feb. 1794; lieut. col. 70 foot 1804–24; governor of Bahama islands May 1820 to 1829; governor of Trinidad 5 Dec. 1831 to 9 June 1833; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831; K.C.H. 13 Sep. 1831; colonel 96 regt. 9 April 1839 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. suddenly in an omnibus in Regent st. London 26 Jany. 1852 aged 70.
GRANT, Philip. Power loom weaver; very active in trying to further the cause of the Ten Hours’ Bill 1825 etc.; edited the Ten Hours’ Advocate, a periodical; Ten Hours’ Bill passed 1874; author of History of factory legislation. d. Granville st. Upper Brook st. Chorlton-on-Medlock 4 April 1880. Manchester Courier 7 April 1880 p. 6.
GRANT, Sir Richard (son of Richard Grant, H.M.’s proctor at Jamaica). b. Kingston, Jamaica 1783; entered navy July 1798; captain 17 May 1828; R.A. on half pay 7 Feb. 1855; knighted by Earl Talbot, lord lieut. of Ireland 1820. d. Shawefield, Havant, Hants. 3 March 1859 aged 75.
GRANT, Rev. Robert (son of Thomas Grant of Sheerness, Kent). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 15 Nov. 1815 aged 18, fellow 1815–28; B.C.L. 1823; V. of Bradford Abbas, Dorset 1828–86; preb. of Salisbury 1845 to death; author of Lectures on the parable of the prodigal son 1830; Kapiolani and other poems 1848; Reminiscences of a clergyman during a ministry of forty years in a country parish 1873. d. 11 Clarendon row, Southsea 15 Sep. 1887 in 91 year.
GRANT, Robert Edmond (7 son of Alexander Grant of Edinburgh, writer to the signet, d. 1808). b. Argyle sq. Edin. 11 Nov. 1793; ed. at high school and univ. Edin., M.D. Edin. 1814; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1814; F.R.S. Edin. 1824; professor of comparative anatomy and zoology in univ. of London, June 1827 to death, lectured 5 times a week, never omitted a single lecture; Fullerian professor of physiology in royal institution 1837–40; Swiney lecturer on geology at British Museum 5 years; F.R.S. 4 Feb. 1836; styled the Cuvier of England; author of An essay on the study of the animal kingdom 1828, 2 ed. 1829; Outlines of comparative anatomy 1835–41, and papers in Lancet. d. 2 Euston grove, Euston sq. London 23 Aug. 1874, left all his property to Univ. coll. London. Proc. of Royal society, xxiii, pp. vi-x (1875); Quarterly Journal of Geological society, xxxi, 49–52.