GRANT, GEORGE; b.; adm. 19 Jan 1796 (Clapham); in school lists 1797; left Michaelmas 1798.
GRANT, HENRY JOHN, eldest son of Henry Grant, The Gnoll, Neath, Glamorgan, previously a merchant in Calcutta, and Maria, dau. of John Camac, Greenmount, co. Louth, Ireland; b. 28 Feb 1780; adm.; at school 1791; Min. Can. 1793; KS (aged 14) 1794; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1798, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 May 1798; BA 1802; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 27 Jan 1802, called to bar 2 May 1807; of The Gnoll, Neath, Glamorgan; DL JP Glamorgan, High Sheriff 1833-4; m. 25 May 1822 Mary, sister of George Warde (qv); d. 17 Apr 1861.
Grant, Ian Dawson, son of James Ardern Grant, painter and printmaker, and Ann Stringer, d. of Alfred Dawson of Herne Hill, Kent; b. 26 Mar. 1925; adm. Sept. 1939 (G); left July 1942; an architect; ARIBA 1949, FRIBA 1969; practised in London; d. 27 Aug. 1998.
GRANT, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1744; in school list 1754 (“exempt from payment”).
Grant, John; Oxford Univ., BA 1571; Under Master of Westminster School 1573; Perhaps Vicar of South Benfleet, Essex, from 29 Jan 1585/6 (in succession to Edward Grant, qv) to his death by 15 May 1609.
Grant, John; kept boarding house in Great Smith Street in 1746-7. First of twenty-five recorded boarders with John Grant and/or Mary Grant within period for which boarding house data exists adm. Jan 1745/6, last recorded boarder adm. Sep 1752. Perhaps husband or son of Mrs.Mary Grant (below) ; the given name of the mother of his two sons Charles and Richard was Margaret.
Grant, Mary; Dame of boarding house in Great Smith Street 1747-9, of house on site of old Bursary 1749-65, and of house which stood on part of the site of Vaughan’s House (now 2 Little Dean’s Yard) from 1765 ; d. 5 May 1787, aged 82. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. Perhaps step-mother or grandmother of Rev.Richard Grant (adm.1750/1), whose mother’s Christian name was Margaret.
GRANT, RICHARD, son of John Grant, London, and Mary --- (dame of Grant’s boarding house c. 1746-87); b.; adm. (aged 6) Jan 1750/1 (Grant's); KS (Capt. ) 1757; Capt. of the School 1761; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1762, matr. 9 Jun 1762, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1762 – void 1 Jun 1772, expiry year of grace as V. Black Bourton; BA 1766; MA 1770; an Usher at the School 1764-72; ordained priest (Oxford) 26 May 1771; “Chaplain to St. John’s, Newfoundland” (MS note in copy of Welch); Vicar of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, from 30 May 1771; Rector of Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, from 1782; he and his wife kept the boarding house, 2 Little Dean’s Yard, for many years to 1813; Rector of Wennington, Essex, from 1812; m.; d. 13 Aug 1826.
GRANT, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Grant (qv); b.; adm. 16 Jan 1786 (G) (“exempt from payment”); ordained; Minister of St. George’s Chapel, Albemarle Street, London; he and his wife took over the boarding house at 2 Little Deans Yard 1813, and he carried it on until his death; m.; d. 22 May 1837.
GRANT, SIR JAMES, BART. , only son of Sir Ludovick Grant, Bart. , MP, advocate, and his second wife Lady Margaret Ogilvie, elder dau. of James Ogilvie, 5th Earl of Findlater and 2nd Earl of Seafield (S); b. 19 May 1738; in school lists 1747-52; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 13 Jan 1756, matr. Easter 1756; MA 1757; Grand Tour (Italy, Switzerland, Germany) 1758-60; MP Elgin District 1761-8, Banffshire 1790 – Jun 1795; succ. father as 8th baronet and as chief of clan Grant 18 Mar 1773; an original office-bearer on foundation Highland Society 1784; raised 1st Strathspey Fencible Infantry 1793, and 97th Foot 1794, both of which he commanded to 1802, with rank of Col. in Army, 1 Mar 1793; Lord Lieut. , Inverness-shire 1794-1809; Cashier of the Excise, Scotland, from 1795; m. 4 Jan 1763 Jean, only dau. of Alexander Duff, Hatton, Aberdeenshire; d. 18 Feb 1811. DNB.