GRANT, Most Rev. Thomas (2 son of Bernard Grant of Ackerson’s Mill near Newry, quartermaster 82 foot, who d. May 1856 aged 69). b. Ligny-les-Aires, France 5 Nov. 1816; entered St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham 1 Jany. 1829; entered English college, Rome 1 Dec. 1836; created D.D. 27 Aug. 1841; priest 28 Nov. 1841; sec. to Cardinal Acton 1841–47 when he died; prorector of English college, Rome 13 April 1844, rector 13 Oct. 1844 to 27 June 1851; bishop of Southwark 27 June 1851 to death, consecrated in church of English college, Rome by Cardinal Fransoni 4 July 1851; author of Meditations of the Sisters of Mercy before renewal of vows 1874. d. the English college, Rome 1 June 1870. bur. in cemetery of orphanage at Norwood, Surrey. Thomas Grant, bishop of Southwark, by Grace Ramsay 1874, with 2 portraits; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 5–11 (1887).
GRANT, Sir Thomas Tassell (eld. son of Thomas Grant of Soberton, Hants.) b. Portsea, Hants. 1795; entered naval service 1812; storekeeper Clarence victualling yard, Gosport 1828; controller of victualling and transport service Dec. 1850 to 1858; invented steam machinery for making biscuits 1829 for which he had parliamentary grant of £2000; invented a life buoy, a feathering paddle wheel, and Grant’s patent fuel 1839 which is used in the navy; distilled fresh water from the sea 1849, the Wye with his apparatus sent to the Crimea produced 10,000 gallons daily 1855; K.C.B. 6 Sep. 1858; F.R.S. d. 20 Chester ter. Regent’s park, London 15 Oct. 1859 aged 64. Times 19 Oct. 1859 p. 7; G.M. Nov. 1859 p. 534.
GRANT, William (brother of Most Rev. Thomas Grant 1816–70). Professor at St. Peter’s college, Agra 18—to death; started the Agra Weekly Register. d. Agra 20 May 1863.
GRANT, William Augustine Ignatius. b. 1838; a Presbyterian; a member of Church of England; a Roman Catholic 1857–68; an Irvingite 1868–73; an extreme Ritualist 1873–80; a Roman Catholic again 1880 to death; a landscape painter, exhibited 1 picture at R.A. and 4 at B.I. 1862–64; lived at Peckham many years; one of the ablest controversialists of his day; author of The Communion of Saints in the Church of God 1867; Apostolic Lordship and the interior life: a narrative of five years’ communion with Catholic Apostolic Angels, privately printed 1873, published under title of Apostolic Lordship, or five years with the Irvingites: and why I left them 1874; The peoples’ mass book, By a Layman of the Church of England 1874 and other books. d. Clifton 21 May 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 11–14 (1887).
GRANT, William James. b. Hackney, London 1829; student at R.A. 1844; exhibited 39 works at R.A. and 5 at B.I. 1847–66; some of his pictures were, Edward the Black Prince entertaining French King 1848, Samson and Delilah 1852, The morning of the duel 1860, The lady and the wasp 1866. d. London? 2 June 1866.
GRANT, Sir William Keir (son of Archibald Keir of H.E.I.C.S.) b. 1771; cornet 15 dragoons 30 May 1792; one of 8 officers who saved Francis II. Emperor of Germany from being taken prisoner by the French in the plains of Catau Cambresis 24 April 1794, received gold medal and was made knight of Maria Theresa; lieut. col. 22 light dragoons 3 Dec. 1800; served in India as adjutant general 1806–14; commander in chief and second member of council in Java 1815–16; served in India 1819–21; col. 8 dragoons 1 Feb. 1833 to 24 Aug. 1839, and of 2 dragoons 24 Aug. 1839 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.H. 1821, G.C.H. 1835; K.C.B. 3 Dec. 1822; G.C. of Lion and Sun, Persia. d. 20 Chapel st. Belgrave sq. London 7 May 1852. G.M. June 1852 pp. 619–20; Dod’s Peerage 1852 p. 258.
GRANTHAM, George. Entered Madras army 1823; col. 5 Madras N.I. 4 Nov. 1856–61; col. 39 Madras N.I. 1861–69; L.G. 6 March 1868; drowned in collision between steamers Mary and Normandy about 20 miles from the Needles, Isle of Wight 17 March 1870 aged 67. Times 18–26 March 1870.
GRANTHAM, Rev. George Peirce (son of George Grantham of firm of Gosling and Sharp, bankers, London). b. Finsbury, London 11 Jany. 1833; educ. King’s coll. Lond. and Univ. of Lond.; C. of Allhallows East, Exeter 1859–61; C. of Rame, Cornwall 1861–65; C. of Hotham 1865–67; senior C. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1867–76; precentor and senior curate of St. Michael’s, Swanmore, Ryde 1876–79; V. of Llanbadoc near Usk 1879–81; C. of Holy Cross mission ch. Bedminster 1881–83; C. of St. Augustine, Kensington 1883; V. of Ston Easton with Farrington Gurney 1885; author of Holy Songs 1866; The mysteries of holy church and other verses 1871; History of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1872; Carols for yule tide, with original music 1877; editor of Ecclesiastical Art Rev. 1878. d. The Elms, Farrington Gurney 13 Oct. 1885. bur. Arnos vale cemetery, Bristol. International Mag., Oct. 1885 pp. 110–11.
GRANTHAM, John. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; L.S.A. 1823; M.R.C.S. 21 Feb. 1823, hon. fellow 26 Aug. 1844; author of Facts and observations on medicine and surgery 1844. d. Crayford, Kent 14 Nov. 1873 in 73 year.
GRANTHAM, John (2 son of John Grantham, surveyor). b. Croydon 1809; managing partner of firm of Mather, Dickson & Co.; one of founders of Polytechnic society, Liverpool; a naval architect and consulting engineer at Liverpool; planned and executed several of the largest iron sailing and steam ships; took out patents for screw propellers, and invented a system of sheathing iron built ships with copper; practised in London 1859 to death; constructed the first tramway in Copenhagen 1863; patented a steam tramway car; one of founders of Institution of naval architects Jany. 1860, member of council Jany. 1860 to death; A.I.C.E. 11 Feb. 1840, M.I.C.E. 29 Nov. 1864; author of Iron as a material for ship building 1842; Iron ship building 1858, 5 ed. 1868. d. Croydon 10 July 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 266–68 (1875).