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.

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.

GRANVILLE, CHARLES ROBERT; b. 14 Jan 1814; adm. 26 Mar 1828 (Stikeman's).

Gray, Cyril Douglas, only son of Charles Herbert Gray, of Maida Vale; b. April 26, 1895; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (H); left Dec. 1909; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 20th Batt. London Regt. Oct. 14, 1914; Lieut. June 1, 1915; relinquished his commission on account of ill health Dec. 31, 1916; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. April 8, 1940; Flying Officer April 8, 1941; m. July 19, 1916, Emily, elder daughter of William Thomas Waller, of London; d. 20 Feb. 1969.

Gray, Eric Hubert, son of James Gray, of Forest Hill, Kent, barrister-at-law, by Mary Winifred, daughter of the Rev. Edward Ebenezer Crate, Rector of Jevington, Sussex; b. March 30, 1892; adm. as non-resident K.S. Sept. 28, 1905 (H); left Dec. 1910; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1911; 2nd Lieut. unattached Jan. 20, 1912, Indian Army March 8, 1913; Lieut. April 20, 1914; D. C. Officer 74th Punjabis; Capt. Jan. 20, 1916; served at the Suez Canal, France, Flanders, and Gallipoli in 1915, and with the Aden Field Force in 1916; Major Jan. 20, 1929; Lieut.-Col. March 16, 1937; m. Oct. 17, 1917, Phyllis Jean Mary, elder daughter of George Philip Lammert, of Hongkong, China; killed at Nowshera, N. W. Frontier Province, whilst in command of 4th/2nd Punjab Regt. by a sepoy who ran amok, Nov. 24, 1938.

GRAY, JOHN EDWARD, fifth son of Right Rev. Robert Gray DD, Bishop of Bristol, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Camplin, Trinity Street, Bristol; b. 4 Nov 1801; adm. 29 Jan 1812; KS 1816; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1820, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 May 1820; BA 1824; ordained deacon 1822, priest 1823 (both Peterborough); m. 1841 Essex, dau. of Lieut. -Gen. Walter Ker, Littledean Tower, Roxburghshire; d. 2 Aug 1881.