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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”).

Grant, John; Oxford Univ., BA 1571; Under Master of Westminster School 1573; Perhaps Vicar of South Benfleet, Essex, from 29 Jan 1585/6 (in succession to Edward Grant, qv) to his death by 15 May 1609.

Grant, John; kept boarding house in Great Smith Street in 1746-7. First of twenty-five recorded boarders with John Grant and/or Mary Grant within period for which boarding house data exists adm. Jan 1745/6, last recorded boarder adm. Sep 1752. Perhaps husband or son of Mrs.Mary Grant (below) ; the given name of the mother of his two sons Charles and Richard was Margaret.

Grant, Mary; Dame of boarding house in Great Smith Street 1747-9, of house on site of old Bursary 1749-65, and of house which stood on part of the site of Vaughan’s House (now 2 Little Dean’s Yard) from 1765 ; d. 5 May 1787, aged 82. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. Perhaps step-mother or grandmother of Rev.Richard Grant (adm.1750/1), whose mother’s Christian name was Margaret.

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.