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'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-).

GRAY, JOHN, only son of John Gray, Camberwell, Surrey, and Amelia --- (IGI) [perhaps her surname Whyte]; b. 18 Jul 1837; adm. 17 Jan 1850 (G); left Whitsun 1855; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 30 May 1855.

GRAY, ROBERT WEBSTER; b. Whitby, Yorks. 28 Sep 1859; adm. 23 Jan 1873 (G); left Christmas 1875; shipowner’s clerk, Tynemouth, Northumberland (1881 Census).

GREATHED, SIR EDWARD HARRIS, eldest son of Capt. Edward Harris Greathed (formerly Harris), Uddens, Dorset, and Mary Elizabeth, only dau. of Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Bart. (qv); b. 8 Jun 1812; adm. 7 Jul 1825 (G); left Dec 1828; Ensign, 8th Foot 22 Jun 1832; Lieut., 10 May 1833; Capt., 27 Apr 1838; Maj., 3 Apr 1846; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 20 Jun 1854; Lieut. -Col., 8th Foot 26 Jun 1854; Brevet Col., 19 Jan 1858; half-pay 28 Oct 1859; Maj. -Gen., 6 Mar 1868; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Oct 1877; Col., 108th Foot, from 28 Jan 1880; Gen. 1 Jul 1880; served Indian Mutiny, commanding 3rd Brigade of Lord Clyde’s army Nov 1857 – Jan 1858; in command Eastern District, England 1872-7; CB 1 Jan 1858; KCB 28 Mar 1865; DCL Oxford 6 Jul 1859; m. 1st, 16 Mar 1854 Louisa Frances, widow of George Archer MD, Surgeon, 64th Foot, and dau. of Rev. Francis Brodrick Hartwell, Vicar-Gen. Isle of Man; m. 2nd. 19 Dec 1860 Ellen Mary, second dau. of Rev. George Tufnell, Thornton Watlass, Yorkshire, Rector of Wormingford, Essex; m. 3rd, 4 Aug 1869 Charlotte Frederica Caroline, eldest dau. of Sir George Robert Osborn, Bart. (qv); d. 19 Nov 1881.

Greenish, Brian Vivian Isitt, son of Vivian Arthur Frederick Greenish FDS, of Hendon, and Marjorie Ellen, d. of Charles William Isitt; b. 11 Oct. 1920; adm. Sept. 1934 (G); left July 1939; Middx Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP MB BS 1944; practised at Bedford, dep. Coroner 1957- 65, retd 1985; m. 17 Aug. 1944 Nancy, d. of Charles Ernest Snowdon of Hull, E. Yorks; d. 27 Apr. 2012.

Gregg, Dominic Ian, son of Basil Edward Pease Gregg, member of Lloyd’s, and Winifred Standidge, d. of Capt. Anthony Standidge Thomson CB CBE RNR, Elder Brother of Trinity House; b. 4 Jan. 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (G); left July 1943; Roy. Garhwal Rifles IA 1944-6 (Lieut. ); Wadham Coll. Oxf., matric. 1947, BA 1951, MA 1954; Westminster Hosp. Med. Sch., BM BCh 1954; DM 1983; MRCP 1978, FRCP 1986; FRCGP 1972; gen. med. practitioner, Roehampton 1958-73, subsequently in Kingston-upon-Thames and in Southampton, Hants; dir., Dept. of Clinical Epidemiology, Brompton Hosp., London 1973-83; sen. res. Fellow and sen. lecturer, primary care, Univ. of Southampton 1982-7; m. 7 Apr. 1953 Mary Dale Chanter, nurse, d. of Edgar Dale Chanter of Itchen Abbas, Hants; d. 1 Apr. 2009.

GREGORY, CHRISTOPHER, son of James Christopher Gregory, solicitor, Registrar Chertsey County Court, and Anne, dau. of John Read, Hadley, Middlesex; b. 4 Jul 1853; adm. 24 Sep 1868 (G); left Aug 1869; Lincoln Theol. College 1874; ordained deacon 1876, priest 1877 (both Lincoln); Curate, St. Swithun, Retford, Notts. 1876-9, Folkestone, Kent 1879-85, Woolverstone, Suffolk 1889-93; Chaplain, St. Andrew’s Home, Folkestone, Kent 1893-1911, St. Mark’s, Regents Park, London, from 1912; m. 1892 Annie Gertrude, fourth dau. of John Nisbet, Easington Grange, Northumberland; d. 1920.