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.

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'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-).

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 ---.

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

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, 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, 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, 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, GEORGE; b.; adm. 19 Jan 1796 (Clapham); in school lists 1797; left Michaelmas 1798.