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Granges, James, fl. 1784
GB-2014-WSA-08126 · Person · fl. 1784

GRANGES, JAMES; b.; adm. 13 Sep 1784.

Grant, ---, fl. ca. 1718
GB-2014-WSA-08127 · Person · fl. ca. 1718

GRANT, ---; b.; in under school list 1718. [But Whitmore notes “my transcript reads Grimes”]

Grant, ---, fl. ca. 1743
GB-2014-WSA-08128 · Person · fl. ca. 1743

GRANT, ---; b.; in school lists 1743-7.

Grant, ---, fl. ca. 1801
GB-2014-WSA-08129 · Person · fl. ca. 1801

GRANT, ---; b.; in school list 1801.

GB-2014-WSA-08130 · Person · 1903-1960

Grant, Alexander Dunnett St. Clair, son of Alexander Grant, O.B.E., of Streatham, by Margaret St. Clair, daughter of John Dunnett, of Edinburgh; b. July 17, 1903; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (H); left July 1920; a clerk in the British and Foreign Marine Insurance Co.; d. Jan. 2, 1960.

Grant, Charles, 1746-1811
GB-2014-WSA-019149 · Person · 1746-1811

GRANT, CHARLES, son of John Grant, Westminster, and Margaret ---; b. 2 May 1746; in school list 1754; KS (aged 14) 1760; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1764, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1764, scholar 3 May 1765, matr. Mich. 1767; BA 1768; MA 1780; ordained deacon (Norwich, lit. dim. from Winchester) 6 Nov 1768, priest (London) 14 Jun 1772; Curate, Streatham, Surrey, and Covent Garden, London 1768; subsequently Curate, Hampstead, Middlesex; for more than thirty years the proprietor of the Chapel in Well Walk, Hampstead; Vicar of Hinton Parva, Dorset, from 6 Mar 1800; lic. to m. 12 Apr 1769 Susanna Blackford, St. Mary, Lambeth, Surrey; d. 20 Feb 1811. [Whitmore states “brother of Richard Grant (adm. 1750/1, qv”, but note difference in mother’s name]

Grant, Edward, d. 1601
GB-2014-WSA-08131 · Person · d. 1601

GRANT, EDWARD; b.; at school under Passey and Randal (Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, I, 711); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, sizar, matr. 22 Feb 1563/4; migrated to Exeter Coll., Oxford; BA 27 Feb 1571/2; MA 1572 (incorp. Cambridge 16 Dec 1573); BD Cambridge 1578/9 (incorp. Oxford 19 May 1579); DD Cambridge 1588; preacher at Cambridge Univ. 1580; an Assistant Master at the School 1570-2, Head Master 1572 – Feb 1592/3; ordained; Prebendary of Westminster from 26 May 1577, subsequently Sub-Dean; Rector of Shenley, Herts., 1581; Rector of South Benfleet, Essex 22 Dec 1584-5; Rector of Bintree and Foulsham, Norfolk 20 Nov 1586-94; Prebendary of Ely from 1589, also Prebendary of Salisbury Jan 1592 – Jun 1593 or later; Rector of East Barnet, Herts., from 3 Nov 1586; Rector of Algarkirk, Lincs., from 1594; Rector of Toppesfield, Essex, from 22 Apr 1598; “the most noted Latinist and Grecian of his time” (Wood, ibid. ); an intimate friend of Roger Ascham; author, Graecae Linguae Spicilegium, 1575, afterward epitomised by William Camden as Institutio Graecae Grammaticae Compendiaria in Usum Scholae Regiae Westmonasteriensis, 1597, the book becoming known in later years as the Eton Greek Grammar; m. Susan ---; d. 4 Aug 1601. Buried Westminster Abbey. DNB.

GB-2014-WSA-019150 · Person · 1803-1837

GRANT, FREDERICK JOHN, son of Richard Grant (adm. 1786, qv); b. 1803; adm. Mich. 1810; in school list Feb 1816; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 31 Aug 1819, matr. Mich. 1820; BA 1824; MA 1829; ordained deacon (London) 13 Jun 1824; d. 13 Mar 1837, aged 34. [Perhaps Frederic Grant, bapt. St. Pancras Old Church 8 Feb 1803, son of Richard Grant, and Susan --- (IGI)].

Grant, G., fl. 1809
GB-2014-WSA-08132 · Person · fl. 1809

GRANT, G.; b.; adm. 9 Jan 1809; in school list Oct 1814.