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GRANT, EDWARD; b.; at school under Passey and Randal (Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, I, 711); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, sizar, matr. 22 Feb 1563/4; migrated to Exeter Coll., Oxford; BA 27 Feb 1571/2; MA 1572 (incorp. Cambridge 16 Dec 1573); BD Cambridge 1578/9 (incorp. Oxford 19 May 1579); DD Cambridge 1588; preacher at Cambridge Univ. 1580; an Assistant Master at the School 1570-2, Head Master 1572 – Feb 1592/3; ordained; Prebendary of Westminster from 26 May 1577, subsequently Sub-Dean; Rector of Shenley, Herts., 1581; Rector of South Benfleet, Essex 22 Dec 1584-5; Rector of Bintree and Foulsham, Norfolk 20 Nov 1586-94; Prebendary of Ely from 1589, also Prebendary of Salisbury Jan 1592 – Jun 1593 or later; Rector of East Barnet, Herts., from 3 Nov 1586; Rector of Algarkirk, Lincs., from 1594; Rector of Toppesfield, Essex, from 22 Apr 1598; “the most noted Latinist and Grecian of his time” (Wood, ibid. ); an intimate friend of Roger Ascham; author, Graecae Linguae Spicilegium, 1575, afterward epitomised by William Camden as Institutio Graecae Grammaticae Compendiaria in Usum Scholae Regiae Westmonasteriensis, 1597, the book becoming known in later years as the Eton Greek Grammar; m. Susan ---; d. 4 Aug 1601. Buried Westminster Abbey. DNB.

GRANT, FREDERICK JOHN, son of Richard Grant (adm. 1786, qv); b. 1803; adm. Mich. 1810; in school list Feb 1816; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 31 Aug 1819, matr. Mich. 1820; BA 1824; MA 1829; ordained deacon (London) 13 Jun 1824; d. 13 Mar 1837, aged 34. [Perhaps Frederic Grant, bapt. St. Pancras Old Church 8 Feb 1803, son of Richard Grant, and Susan --- (IGI)].

GRANT, G.; b.; adm. 9 Jan 1809; in school list Oct 1814.

GRANT, GABRIEL, son of Edward Grant (qv); bapt. St. Margaret, Westminster 1 Mar 1575/6; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1592, adm. scholar 1593; BA 1596/7 (supplication to be incorp. Oxford 26 Nov 1597); MA 1600; DD 1612; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Jun 1598; ordained; Rector of Layer Marney, Essex 1602-4; Rector of St. Leonard, Foster Lane, London 14 Apr 1604-22; Vicar of Walthamstow, Essex, from 1612; Prebendary of Westminster from 20 Jan 1612/3, Archdeacon 1617-30; Vicar of Plumstead, Kent 1618; Rector of Sutton, Surrey 1621; Rector of Boxford, Suffolk, from 1624; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, 11 Feb 1633/4 Anne, St. Clement Danes, London, widow of Morgan Senior, Ashton, Dorset; d. by 28 Aug 1638.

Grant, Geoffrey Leslie, son of Rev. Frederick Leslie Grant, clergyman, and Winifred May, d. of Alfred George Uglow, customs officer, of Plymouth, Devon; b. 11 Oct. 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (B); left July 1951; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1954, BA 1957, MA 1960; Ridley Hall Camb., ord. deacon 1959, priest 1960 (Lond. ); Curate St Luke, Chelsea, 1959; Rector of Nacton with Levington, Suffolk, 1964-2014, with Bucklesham and Foxhall 1978-2014; Rural Dean Colneys, Felixstowe, 1986; hon. Canon, Bury St Edmunds 1994; m. 4 May 1963 Wendy Ann, d. of Thomas Lascelles Heron, county court registrar; d. 23 Apr. 2022.

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

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, 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, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1744; in school list 1754 (“exempt from payment”).