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GLYN, SIR GEORGE, BART., second son of Sir Richard Glyn, Bart., MP, Lord Mayor of London, and his first wife Susannah, only dau. of George Lewen MP, Ewell, Surrey; b.; adm. (aged 13) Apr 1752 (Grant's); in school list 1754; Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 May 1758; BA 1760; MA 1763; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 May 1757; adm. Inner Temple 10 Apr 1761, called to bar 1 May 1761; succ. father as 2nd baronet 1 Jan. 1773; m. 1st, 7 Jul 1768 Jane, dau. of Rev. Watkin Lewes, Tredevel, Pembs.; m. 2nd, 11 Jun 1796 Catherine, youngest dau. of Rev. Gervas Powell, Lanhavan, Glamorgan; d. 4 Sep 1814.

JOHNSTON, MICHAEL; b.; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1752 (Grant's).

Agar, Harold Evelyn Talbot, brother of Charles Talbot Agar (q.v.); b. Aug. 14, 1876; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (G); Exhibitioner 1890; left July 1892; Trin. Coll. Camb. ladm. pensr. June 25, 1894), matric. Michaelmas 1894; a member of the London Stock Exchange from 1911; Major 3rd London Field Co. Divisional Engineers R.E. June 1, 1916; m. June 22, 1904 Beatrice Frances Jervis, only daughter of C. W. Jervis-Smith, of Doveridge, Derbyshire; d. at Vence, France, June 18, 1962.

AGAR, JAMES, 1ST VISCOUNT CLIFDEN (I), eldest son of Henry Agar MP (I), Gowran Castle, co. Kilkenny, by Anne, only surviving dau. of Welbore Ellis (KS 1676, qv); b. 25 Mar 1734; adm. Nov. 1746 (Grant's); left 1752; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Apr 1752; MP (I) Gowran 1753-60, Co. Kilkenny 1761-76, Gowran 1776; a Commissioner of the Irish Revenue 3 Feb 1772-85, and of the Irish Excise 13 Jul 1776-85; created Baron Clifden (I) 27 Jan 1776; Viscount Clifden (I) 12 Jan 1781; joint Postmaster-General, Ireland 16 Jul 1784-9; Privy Councillor (I) 16 Oct 1784; m. 20 Mar 1760 Lucy, widow of Hon. Henry Boyle Walsingham MP (I), and eldest dau. of Col. John Martin, Dublin; d. 1 Jan 1789.

GUMBLETON, GEORGE, younger son of Rev. George Gumbleton, Belgrove, near Queenstown, co. Cork, and his second wife Frances Anne, dau. of James Penrose, Woodhill, co. Cork; b. 4 Jun 1843; adm. 30 Jul 1857 (G); QS 1858; Capt. of the School 1861; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1862, matr. 12 Jun 1862; BA 1866; MA and BCL 1869; DCL 1886; adm. Inner Temple 6 May 1867, called to bar 26 Jan 1870; migr. to Middle Temple; Oxford Circuit; a law reporter for The Times; founded Gumbleton English Verse Prize at the School 1874; author, Sketches in Sunny Climes; m. 18 Jul 1889 Jessie Ramsay, eldest dau. of Thomas Skinner, Roland Gardens, South Kensington; d. 25 May 1894.

In 1874 he gave a prize of £5 for the encouragement of English verse composition. This gift he continued annually until 1881, when he gave £100 as a permanent endowment for the prize. The endowment is now held in the School’s Gumbleton Fund (terms varied by schemes of 16 Apr 1959 and 8 Nov 1965).

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-).

BOSANQUET, WILLIAM HENRY FRANCIS, brother of Samuel Richard Bosanquet (qv); b. 5 Feb 1805; adm. (G) 19 Jun 1816; adm. Inner Temple 13 May 1825, called to bar Trinity 1836; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; of Knockane and Kilmagemogue, co. Waterford; m. 6 May 1861 Amelia Mary Georgiana, eldest dau. of John Sherlock, Kilmagemogue, co. Waterford; d. 29 Sep 1878. .

SMYTH, SIR NEVILL MASKELYNE, younger son of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth (qv); b. 14 Aug 1868; adm. 8 Jun 1882 (G); left 1885; RMC Sandhurst 1886; 2nd Lieut., 2nd Dragoon Guards 22 Aug 1888; Lieut., 26 Apr 1895; Capt., 8 Dec 1897; Brevet Maj., 22 Aug 1902; Maj., 6th Dragoon Guards 28 Oct 1903; Lieut. -Col., 1 May 1909 – 30 Apr 1913; Brevet Col., 4 Dec 1912; temp. Brig. -Gen., 20 May 1915 – 27 Dec 1916; temp. Major-Gen., 28 Dec 1916 – 31 Dec 1917; Major-Gen. Jan 1918; Col., 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards 1920-5; retd. 1924; served in Zhob Valley expedition 1890-1, expedition to Dongola 1896, and Nile expeditions of 1897, 1898, 1899; severely wounded at battle of Omdurman 2 Sep 1898; mentioned in despatches LG 3 Nov 1896, and 30 Sep and 15 Nov 1898; VC 15 Nov 1898 (for gallantry at Omdurman); served in South African War 1902; during First World War served in Egypt, at Gallipoli, and on the Western Front; in command of Egyptian Army’s 1st class Military District, Sudan 1914-5, 1st Australian Infantry Brigade at Gallipoli 1915-6; mentioned in despatches LG 6 and 28 Jan and 13 Jul 1916, 4 Jan, 15 May and 11 Dec 1917, 28 May and 20 Dec 1918, 5 Jul 1919; CB 14 Jan 1916; KCB 9 Jun 1919; Commander, Order of Leopold, and Croix de Guerre, Belgium; Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, France; m. 23 Jul 1918 Evelyn Olwen, eldest dau. of Sir Arthur Osmond Williams, Bart., MP; d. at Melbourne, Australia 21 Jul 1941.