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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.

GRANT, THOMAS; b.; in school list 1738; BB 1740-5.

GRANT, TURNER, brother of Henry John Grant (qv); b. 14 Sep 1786; adm.; at school 1800; Min. Can. 1801; in school list 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1804; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 13 Jun 1805; Lieut. and Capt., 20 Feb 1811; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 26 Dec 1816; Brevet Col., 10 Jan 1837; Maj., 17 Feb 1837; Lieut. -Col., 11 Sep 1840; retd. 3 Nov 1844; served at Corunna, on Walcheren expedition 1809 and in Peninsular War 1812-4; d. 28 Mar 1845.

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GRANTE, --- ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 32451).

GRANTHAM, HERBERT PAYNE DAWSON, son of Thomas Payne James Grantham MRCP MRCS LSA, Burgh-le-Marsh, Lincs., and Sarah Ashlin (IGI); b. 21 Jan 1852; adm. 28 Jun 1866 (James'); BB 30 Jun 1866; left Dec 1867; mariner; living at York in 1881 (1881 Census); m. (by 1881) Annie ---.

Grant's was opened as an independent boarding house by Mrs Margaret Grant, or Mother Grant I, in 1749, when keeping boarders was one of the few respectable occupations for middle-class women. The house continued under the Grants’ management until Mrs Dixon, the last of the family, sold the building to the then housemaster, Charles Alfred Jones in 1868. As well as income from the sale of the house, Mrs Dixon also had a share of the profits of Dixon's antibilious pills, the world-famous 'pill to cure all ills'.

Many traditions survive at Westminster, but one that has been discontinued at Grant’s is the custom that saw new boarders ‘walk the mantelpiece’ in Hall. Lawrence Tanner, a pupil who kept a thorough diary of his time at Westminster, records his own experience of walking the mantelpiece here.

Grantites of particular interest include Lord John Russell (1792-1878), a Whig and Liberal Prime Minister and keen reformist; Charles Longley (1794-1868), Archbishop of Canterbury; Edgar Adrian (1899- 1977), winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology; the actor John Gielgud (1904-2000) and Dominic Grieve MP (1956-).

Grant-Wilson, Charles Westbrooke, son of George Grant-Wilson, of Streatham, by Lucy, daughter of Richard Squires, of Liverpool; b. Nov. 20, 1868; adm. Sept. 28, 1883 (H); left July 1887; St. Thomas's Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1895; practised at Sidmouth, Devon; founder of the O. W. Cricket Club; m. June 2, 1898, Lilian Frances, only daughter of the Rev. Albert Jenkin, of Harbridge, Rants; d. Nov. 1, 1943.

Grant-Wilson, Sir George Wemyss, brother of Charles Westbrooke Grant-Wilson (q.v.); b. Feb. 21, 1870; adm. June 12, 1884 (H); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. July 1888 (adm. pensr. Oct. 6, 1888); B.A. and LL. B. 1892; M.A. 1900; LL. M. 1900; editor of the Cambridge Review; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Jan. 28, 1895; a director of Richard Evans and Co.; director of the Borstall Assoc.; knighted June 5, 1920; hon. sec. of the Elizabethan Club 1901-5; d. Jan. 21, 1953.