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GREEN, JOHN FRANCIS, brother of Thomas Green (qv, adm. 1832); b. 9 Oct 1822; bapt. 17 Nov 1822 at Badbury, Northants; adm. 28 May 1834 (Scott's); d. 27 Aug 1834.

TERRY, ASTLEY FELLOWES, eldest son of Lieut. -Col. Thomas Henry Clarke Terry, Burvale, Surrey, and Charlotte, second dau. of Henry Fellowes; b. 12 May 1840; adm. 20 Jan 1853 (James'); QS 1854; left Mar 1855; Ensign, 60th Rifles 1 Apr 1858; Lieut., 11 Sep 1860; Adjt., 23 Jun 1863; Capt., 18 Dec 1867; Maj., 7 Jan 1880; Lieut. -Col., Kingís Royal Rifle Corps 1 Jul 1881; Col. in Army 1 Jul 1885; retd. as hon. Major-Gen., 1 Jul 1887; served in Zulu campaign 1879 and in operations in East Griqualand 1880; Knight of Justice, Order of St. John of Jerusalem 26 May 1908; author, Uniform and Equipment, Kingís Royal Rifle Corps, 1913, and other works; m. 13 Dec 1864 Edith, youngest dau. of Henry Cory, Weybridge, Surrey; d. 8 Dec 1926.

STONE, John; b. ; adm. (aged 12) May 1736 (Heath's); left 1741; apprenticed July 11, 1741, to John Cartwright, of Westminster, attorney.

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-).