Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

GRANT, Sir Alexander, 8 Baronet (elder son of Sir Robert Innes Grant, 7 baronet 1794–1856). b. New York 13 Sep. 1826; ed. at Harrow and Balliol coll. Ox., scholar 1844–9, fellow 1849–60, hon. fellow 1882; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852, D.C.L. 1860; examiner for Indian civil service 1855; inspector of schools in Madras 1859; professor of history and political economy in Elphinstone coll., Madras 1860, principal 1862; vice chancellor of Univ. of Bombay 1863–5 and 1865–8; director of public instruction in Bombay 1865; member of legislative council of Bombay 1868; vice chancellor and principal of Univ. of Edin. 6 July 1868 to death, installed 3 Nov. 1868; devised and carried out tercentenary festival 1884; F.R.S. Edin. 1869; author of The story of the University of Edinburgh during its first three hundred years 1884 and other books. d. 21 Landowne crescent, Edinburgh 30 Nov. 1884. W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 6, 7–17; Trans. of Royal Soc. of Edin. (1885).

GRANT, Sir Alexander Cray, 6 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Alexander Grant, 5 baronet, who d. 25 July 1825). b. Bowring’s Leigh, Devon 30 Nov. 1782; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; member of colonial assembly of Jamaica 1810–11; M.P. for Tregony 1812–18, for Lostwithiel 1818–26, for Aldborough 1826–30, for Westbury 1830–32, for town of Cambridge 1840–43; contested Great Grimsby 1835 and Honiton 1837; chairman of committees of house of commons 1826–32; a member of board of control for India 20 Dec. 1834 to 29 April 1835; a comr. for auditing public accounts 1843 to death. d. Somerset house,? London 29 Nov. 1854.

GRANT, Ven. Anthony (youngest son of Thomas Grant of Portsea). b. 31 Jany. 1806; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1825–39; B.C.L. 1832, D.C.L. 1842; select preacher 1852 and 1861; C. of Chelmsford 1836; V. of Romford, Essex 1838–62; V. of Aylesford, Kent 1862–77; archdeacon of St. Albans 1846 to death; archdeacon of Rochester 1863–82; canon of Rochester 1860 to death; author of The past and prospective extension of the gospel to the heathen 1844, a Bampton lecture which marked an epoch in mission work. An historical sketch of the Crimea 1855 and other books. d. 11 Royal crescent, Ramsgate 25 Nov. 1883.

GRANT, Charles. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 22 April 1819, col. 16 Feb. 1861, col. commandant 11 Jany. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. 3 Suffolk sq., Cheltenham 13 Jany. 1882.

GRANT, Colesworthy. b. London 25 Oct. 1813; went to Calcutta 1832; well known as an artist; professor of drawing Howrah engineering coll. 1849 and at Presidency engineering coll. Calcutta 185-; founded Calcutta soc. for prevention of cruelty to animals, and became hon. sec. 4 Oct. 1861; contributed 167 portrait sketches to the India Review and other papers 1838–50; made 78 sketches of Oriental heads; author of Rough pencillings of a rough trip to Rangoon in 1846, Calcutta 1853; Anglo-Indian domestic life 185-, anon.; Rural life in Bengal, Letters from an Artist in India to his sisters in England 1860; To the children of Calcutta, On cruelty, Calcutta 1872. d. Calcutta 31 May 1880. P. C. Mittra’s Life of C. Grant (1881), portrait.

GRANT, David. b. Upper Banchory, Kincardineshire 1823; educ. Aberdeen univ.; schoolmaster Elgin; French master Oundle gram. sch. Northamptonshire 1861; assist. master Eccleshall coll. near Sheffield 1865; kept a day sch. at Sheffield by which he was ruined 1880; private tutor Edinburgh 1880 to death; author of Metrical tales, Sheffield 1880; Lays and legends of the North, Edin. 1884; A book of ten songs with music 1887. d. Edinburgh 1886. D. H. Edwards’ Modern Scotch poets, Brechin (1880).

GRANT, Sir Francis (4 son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston, Perthshire, who d. 1819). b. Edinburgh 18 Jany. 1803; ed. at Harrow; exhibited 253 portraits at R.A. 1834–79; the fashionable portrait painter of the day from 1840; A.R.A. 1842, R.A. 11 Feb. 1851, pres. 1866; member of Belgian academy 1855; knighted at Buckingham Palace 24 March 1866; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1870. d. The Lodge, Melton Mowbray 5 Oct. 1878. Illustrated Review, v, 449–55, portrait; J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, ii, 1–3; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 295–7 (1862); I.L.N. vi, 293 (1845), portrait, xviii, 219 (1851), portrait, xlviii, 232 (1866), portrait.

GRANT, Gertrude Elizabeth. Author under pseudonym of Gerald Grant of 3 novels Coming home to roost 3 vols. 1872, The old ✠ quarry 3 vols. 1873, The great gulf fixed 3 vols. 1877. d. Göritz, Austria 29 Dec. 1882.

GRANT, James. b. Elgin, Morayshire 1802; a founder and editor of Elgin Courier 1827; went to London 1833; conducted London Saturday Journal 1839, Grant’s London Journal 1840; editor of Morning Advertiser 1850–71, of Christian Standard 1872; author of The great metropolis 1836, 1837; Random recollections of House of Commons and House of Lords 2 vols. 1836, second ser. called The British senate 1838; The metropolitan pulpit 1839; The newspaper press, its origin, progress and present position 3 vols. 1871–72; The Plymouth Brethren 1875 and upwards of 30 other works. d. 35 Cornwall road, Bayswater, London 23 May 1879. Bookseller, June 1879 p. 510; Licensed Victuallers Almanac (1862), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv, 561 (1879), portrait.

GRANT, James. b. Glen Urquhart, Invernessshire 1840; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.A.; studied law in Edinburgh; assistant to professor Cosmo Innes, whom he helped in his books; worked under John Hill Burton and professor Masson in publication of Scottish privy council records; F.S.A.; author of History of the burgh and parish schools of Scotland, vol. 1, 1876, vol. 2 though completed not printed; History of the university of Edinburgh, unprinted. d. at his brother’s residence 114 Bell terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne 9 Aug. 1885.

GRANT, James (eld. son of John Grant, capt. 92 highlanders). b. Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1822; resident in Newfoundland 1833–39; ensign 62 foot 1840, resigned 1843; with David Rhind architect, Edin. 1843; founder and sec. of National association for Vindication of Scottish rights 1852 which was ridiculed in Punch; an early volunteer; joined Roman Catholic ch. 1875; author of The Romance of war 4 vols. 1846–47; Memorials of the castle of Edinburgh 1850; The adventures of an aide-de-camp 3 vols. 1848; Old and new Edinburgh 3 vols. 1880; Love’s labour won 3 vols. 1888 and about 60 other works. d. 25 Tavistock road, Westbourne park, London 5 May 1887.

GRANT, James Gregor. Lecturer for Northern Union of Mechanics’ institutes; resided in Sunderland; wrote a series of stories on local legends for Newcastle Weekly Chronicle; author of Madonna Pia and other poems 2 vols. 1848. d. London 25 Dec. 1875.

GRANT, Sir James Hope (youngest son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston, Perthshire). b. 22 July 1808; cornet 9 lancers 29 Aug. 1826, lieut. col. 29 April 1850 to 26 Feb. 1858; colonel 4 hussars 18 Jany. 1861 to 6 Feb. 1865; col. 9 lancers 9 Feb. 1865 to death; general 23 April 1872, took an important part in suppression of Indian mutiny 1857–8; commanded British forces during Chinese war 1860; commander in chief at Madras 1861–5; quartermaster general at head quarters 1865–70; commanded division at Aldershot 1 Nov. 1870 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, G.C.B. 9 Nov. 1860. d. at house of Baroness Gray, 42 Grosvenor gardens, London 7 March 1875. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age, ii, 252–307 (1880); Golden Hours (1869) 818–32, portrait; D. C. Boulger’s History of China, iii, 483 et seq. (1884); I.L.N. lxvi, 258, 273, 277, 278, 470 (1875), portrait.

GRANT, James Macpherson. b. Alvie, Invernessshire 1822; went with his parents to New South Wales 1836; articled to Chambers and Thurlow, solicitors, Sydney 1841–47; solicitor 1847, partner with Mr. Thurlow; solicitor Melbourne 1854; member for Bendigo to legislative council Victoria, Nov. 1855, member for Sandhurst boroughs 1856, for Avoca 1859 to decease; V.P. of Board of lands and works 1861, president 1864–68, 1868–69, 1871–72; minister of justice 1875, 1877–80; chief sec. 1881–83; did much in settling the people on the public lands. d. Melbourne? 1 April 1885. Men of the time in Australia, Victoria (1878) 73.

GRANT, Sir James Robert (son of Duncan Grant of Mulochaird in Strathspey). b. Forres co. Moray Feb. 1773; assistant surgeon 22 Jany. 1792; inspector general of army hospitals 14 July 1814; chief of medical department at Waterloo; received order of St. Anne of Russia from Emperor Alexander at Paris 1815; K.H. 1816; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 18 March 1819; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850. d. Basford vicarage, Notts 10 Jany. 1864. bur. St. Mary’s churchyard, Carlisle 18 Jany.

GRANT, James William (son of Robert Grant). b. Wester Elchies, Morayshire 12 Aug. 1788; writer H.E.I.C.S. 22 July 1805 in Bengal; retired 1849; detected the companion of Antares 23 July 1844 two years before Mitchel perceived the duplicity of the star; erected an observatory at Elchies 1849, where he placed the Trophy telescope purchased from great exhibition of 1851, this was sold to Mr. Aytoun in 1864; F. R. Astronom. Soc. 13 Jany. 1854. d. Wester Elchies 17 Sept. 1865.

GRANT, John (brother of Sir Francis Grant 1803–78). b. 13 June 1798; master of Perthshire hounds 1836–41; chairman of Tay district board of salmon fishing; his residence Kilgraston house, Perthshire burnt 1872. d. London 20 Jany. 1873. Babington’s Fife foxhounds (1883) 66, portrait; Perthshire Constitutional 22 Jany. 1873 p. 2.

GRANT, John (eld. son of Ewen Grant). b. Glasgow 22 May 1819; assisted in Tithe commutation commission survey in Devon 1838; employed on Exeter and Yeovil railway 1845; assist, surveyor metropolitan commission of sewers April 1849, engineer 1852; assist. engineer metropolitan board of works 1856; superintended construction of numerous streets, sewers, pumping stations and the outfall works at Crossness; connected with construction of portions of Chelsea and Albert embankments; made successful experiments on use of portland cement 1858 etc.; M.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1861, Telford medal 1880; reported on Artizans’ dwellings, Glasgow 1877, Fish supply of London 1881, and on Sludge filter presses 1885. d. 48 Blessington road, Lee, Kent 24 March 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcii, 389–92 (1888).

GRANT, Sir John Thornton (eld. son of Wm. Charles Grant, captain 92 foot, killed at Waterloo 18 June 1815). b. Ireland 26 Dec. 1810; ensign 49 foot 28 April 1828, lieut. col. 22 Dec. 1854 to 3 Aug. 1860; lieut. col. 18 foot 3 Aug. 1860 to 28 May 1866 when placed on h.p.; brig. gen. Madras 1863–68, M.G. Bombay 1869–74; col. 94 foot 25 June 1879 to death; general 21 May 1880; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Upton park, Slough 16 Jany. 1886.

GRANT, Sir Lewis (younger son of Duncan Grant of Mulochaird in Strathspey). Ensign 95 foot 15 Feb. 1794; lieut. col. 70 foot 1804–24; governor of Bahama islands May 1820 to 1829; governor of Trinidad 5 Dec. 1831 to 9 June 1833; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831; K.C.H. 13 Sep. 1831; colonel 96 regt. 9 April 1839 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. suddenly in an omnibus in Regent st. London 26 Jany. 1852 aged 70.

GRANT, Philip. Power loom weaver; very active in trying to further the cause of the Ten Hours’ Bill 1825 etc.; edited the Ten Hours’ Advocate, a periodical; Ten Hours’ Bill passed 1874; author of History of factory legislation. d. Granville st. Upper Brook st. Chorlton-on-Medlock 4 April 1880. Manchester Courier 7 April 1880 p. 6.

GRANT, Sir Richard (son of Richard Grant, H.M.’s proctor at Jamaica). b. Kingston, Jamaica 1783; entered navy July 1798; captain 17 May 1828; R.A. on half pay 7 Feb. 1855; knighted by Earl Talbot, lord lieut. of Ireland 1820. d. Shawefield, Havant, Hants. 3 March 1859 aged 75.

GRANT, Rev. Robert (son of Thomas Grant of Sheerness, Kent). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 15 Nov. 1815 aged 18, fellow 1815–28; B.C.L. 1823; V. of Bradford Abbas, Dorset 1828–86; preb. of Salisbury 1845 to death; author of Lectures on the parable of the prodigal son 1830; Kapiolani and other poems 1848; Reminiscences of a clergyman during a ministry of forty years in a country parish 1873. d. 11 Clarendon row, Southsea 15 Sep. 1887 in 91 year.

GRANT, Robert Edmond (7 son of Alexander Grant of Edinburgh, writer to the signet, d. 1808). b. Argyle sq. Edin. 11 Nov. 1793; ed. at high school and univ. Edin., M.D. Edin. 1814; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1814; F.R.S. Edin. 1824; professor of comparative anatomy and zoology in univ. of London, June 1827 to death, lectured 5 times a week, never omitted a single lecture; Fullerian professor of physiology in royal institution 1837–40; Swiney lecturer on geology at British Museum 5 years; F.R.S. 4 Feb. 1836; styled the Cuvier of England; author of An essay on the study of the animal kingdom 1828, 2 ed. 1829; Outlines of comparative anatomy 1835–41, and papers in Lancet. d. 2 Euston grove, Euston sq. London 23 Aug. 1874, left all his property to Univ. coll. London. Proc. of Royal society, xxiii, pp. vi-x (1875); Quarterly Journal of Geological society, xxxi, 49–52.

GRANT, Most Rev. Thomas (2 son of Bernard Grant of Ackerson’s Mill near Newry, quartermaster 82 foot, who d. May 1856 aged 69). b. Ligny-les-Aires, France 5 Nov. 1816; entered St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham 1 Jany. 1829; entered English college, Rome 1 Dec. 1836; created D.D. 27 Aug. 1841; priest 28 Nov. 1841; sec. to Cardinal Acton 1841–47 when he died; prorector of English college, Rome 13 April 1844, rector 13 Oct. 1844 to 27 June 1851; bishop of Southwark 27 June 1851 to death, consecrated in church of English college, Rome by Cardinal Fransoni 4 July 1851; author of Meditations of the Sisters of Mercy before renewal of vows 1874. d. the English college, Rome 1 June 1870. bur. in cemetery of orphanage at Norwood, Surrey. Thomas Grant, bishop of Southwark, by Grace Ramsay 1874, with 2 portraits; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 5–11 (1887).

GRANT, Sir Thomas Tassell (eld. son of Thomas Grant of Soberton, Hants.) b. Portsea, Hants. 1795; entered naval service 1812; storekeeper Clarence victualling yard, Gosport 1828; controller of victualling and transport service Dec. 1850 to 1858; invented steam machinery for making biscuits 1829 for which he had parliamentary grant of £2000; invented a life buoy, a feathering paddle wheel, and Grant’s patent fuel 1839 which is used in the navy; distilled fresh water from the sea 1849, the Wye with his apparatus sent to the Crimea produced 10,000 gallons daily 1855; K.C.B. 6 Sep. 1858; F.R.S. d. 20 Chester ter. Regent’s park, London 15 Oct. 1859 aged 64. Times 19 Oct. 1859 p. 7; G.M. Nov. 1859 p. 534.

GRANT, William (brother of Most Rev. Thomas Grant 1816–70). Professor at St. Peter’s college, Agra 18—to death; started the Agra Weekly Register. d. Agra 20 May 1863.

GRANT, William Augustine Ignatius. b. 1838; a Presbyterian; a member of Church of England; a Roman Catholic 1857–68; an Irvingite 1868–73; an extreme Ritualist 1873–80; a Roman Catholic again 1880 to death; a landscape painter, exhibited 1 picture at R.A. and 4 at B.I. 1862–64; lived at Peckham many years; one of the ablest controversialists of his day; author of The Communion of Saints in the Church of God 1867; Apostolic Lordship and the interior life: a narrative of five years’ communion with Catholic Apostolic Angels, privately printed 1873, published under title of Apostolic Lordship, or five years with the Irvingites: and why I left them 1874; The peoples’ mass book, By a Layman of the Church of England 1874 and other books. d. Clifton 21 May 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 11–14 (1887).

GRANT, William James. b. Hackney, London 1829; student at R.A. 1844; exhibited 39 works at R.A. and 5 at B.I. 1847–66; some of his pictures were, Edward the Black Prince entertaining French King 1848, Samson and Delilah 1852, The morning of the duel 1860, The lady and the wasp 1866. d. London? 2 June 1866.

GRANT, Sir William Keir (son of Archibald Keir of H.E.I.C.S.) b. 1771; cornet 15 dragoons 30 May 1792; one of 8 officers who saved Francis II. Emperor of Germany from being taken prisoner by the French in the plains of Catau Cambresis 24 April 1794, received gold medal and was made knight of Maria Theresa; lieut. col. 22 light dragoons 3 Dec. 1800; served in India as adjutant general 1806–14; commander in chief and second member of council in Java 1815–16; served in India 1819–21; col. 8 dragoons 1 Feb. 1833 to 24 Aug. 1839, and of 2 dragoons 24 Aug. 1839 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.H. 1821, G.C.H. 1835; K.C.B. 3 Dec. 1822; G.C. of Lion and Sun, Persia. d. 20 Chapel st. Belgrave sq. London 7 May 1852. G.M. June 1852 pp. 619–20; Dod’s Peerage 1852 p. 258.

GRANTHAM, George. Entered Madras army 1823; col. 5 Madras N.I. 4 Nov. 1856–61; col. 39 Madras N.I. 1861–69; L.G. 6 March 1868; drowned in collision between steamers Mary and Normandy about 20 miles from the Needles, Isle of Wight 17 March 1870 aged 67. Times 18–26 March 1870.

GRANTHAM, Rev. George Peirce (son of George Grantham of firm of Gosling and Sharp, bankers, London). b. Finsbury, London 11 Jany. 1833; educ. King’s coll. Lond. and Univ. of Lond.; C. of Allhallows East, Exeter 1859–61; C. of Rame, Cornwall 1861–65; C. of Hotham 1865–67; senior C. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1867–76; precentor and senior curate of St. Michael’s, Swanmore, Ryde 1876–79; V. of Llanbadoc near Usk 1879–81; C. of Holy Cross mission ch. Bedminster 1881–83; C. of St. Augustine, Kensington 1883; V. of Ston Easton with Farrington Gurney 1885; author of Holy Songs 1866; The mysteries of holy church and other verses 1871; History of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1872; Carols for yule tide, with original music 1877; editor of Ecclesiastical Art Rev. 1878. d. The Elms, Farrington Gurney 13 Oct. 1885. bur. Arnos vale cemetery, Bristol. International Mag., Oct. 1885 pp. 110–11.

GRANTHAM, John. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; L.S.A. 1823; M.R.C.S. 21 Feb. 1823, hon. fellow 26 Aug. 1844; author of Facts and observations on medicine and surgery 1844. d. Crayford, Kent 14 Nov. 1873 in 73 year.

GRANTHAM, John (2 son of John Grantham, surveyor). b. Croydon 1809; managing partner of firm of Mather, Dickson & Co.; one of founders of Polytechnic society, Liverpool; a naval architect and consulting engineer at Liverpool; planned and executed several of the largest iron sailing and steam ships; took out patents for screw propellers, and invented a system of sheathing iron built ships with copper; practised in London 1859 to death; constructed the first tramway in Copenhagen 1863; patented a steam tramway car; one of founders of Institution of naval architects Jany. 1860, member of council Jany. 1860 to death; A.I.C.E. 11 Feb. 1840, M.I.C.E. 29 Nov. 1864; author of Iron as a material for ship building 1842; Iron ship building 1858, 5 ed. 1868. d. Croydon 10 July 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 266–68 (1875).

GRANVILLE, Augustus Bozzi (3 son of Carlo Bozzi, postmaster general Milan). b. Milan 7 Oct. 1783; studied at Univ. of Pavia 1799–1802, M.D. 28 Aug. 1802; assistant surgeon in British navy March 1807, retired as surgeon on half pay 1813; assumed maternal name of Granville; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1813; L.R.C.P. 1817; studied at La Maternité, Paris, and qualified as an accoucher 1816–17; settled at 8 Saville row, London 1818; F.R.S. 1817; physician accoucher Westminster general dispensary 1819; introduced use of prussic acid for chest affections; established a West-end infirmary for young children; pres. of Westminster medical soc. 1829; visited Kissingen 1840–68 and set the fashion of drinking its waters; confidential friend of ex-king Joseph Bonaparte 1832–44; author of St. Petersburg, a journal of travels 2 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1829; The spas of Germany 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1838; The spas of England and sea-bathing places 3 vols. 1841 and 31 other works. d. 20 Folkestone ter. Dover 3 March 1872. Autobiography of A. B. Granville (1874), portrait; Munk’s Coll. of physicians, iii, 174–7 (1878); Physic and physicians, ii, 269–71 (1839).

GRATTAN, Sir Edmund Arnout (son of Thomas C. Grattan 1792–1864). b. 1818; British consul at Boston for state of Massachusetts 4 Aug. 1848 to 1858; consul at Antwerp 11 Jany. 1858 to 1883; consul general for Belgium 28 Nov. 1883 to 1888; British commissioner Antwerp exhibition 1885; V.P. Royal Geog. soc. Antwerp; F.R.G.S.; knighted by patent 18 Nov. 1889. d. Ostend Aug. 1890 aged 72.

GRATTAN, Henry Plunkett, stage name of Henry Willoughby Grattan Plunkett. b. Dublin 1808; made his début at Milton st. theatre London in The Rake’s Progress; author of The Minerali, or the dying gift, a drama by H. Plunkett, produced at Cobourg theatre; The Dumb Conscript produced at Astley’s 1835; Faust or the Demon of the Drachenfels produced at Sadler’s Wells 15 Sep. 1842; wrote the first few numbers of Punch with Henry Mayhew and 4 others 17 July 1841 et seq.; edited The Squib June to Dec. 1842 30 numbers; played Hamlet at Park theatre New York 11 May 1843; built the first theatre at Memphis; editor and owner of The Age newspaper; author of The Bottle, a poem, New York 1848; sometimes used name of Harry Plunkett as a stage name; founded the Actors’ Fund; produced many plays; spent 23 years in America; author of The Fairy Circle, The Sisters, Glory, Orson and other pieces all produced in England. d. 25 Dec. 1889. bur. Fulham cemetery 30 Dec.

GRATTAN, Mrs. Henry Plunkett (dau. of Mr. M’Phain). b. London 1811; acted in the provinces and then at Garrick theatre, London; made first appearance in America at St. Charles theatre, New Orleans, as lady Anne in Richard iii, 1836; at the new Chatham theatre, America, was the original Madelon in the Carpenter of Rouen 16 Nov. 1840. m. (1) H. P. Grattan; sang in the role of Pollio in Norma at Adelphi, London Oct. 1842; m. (2) Mr. Barker; m. (3) Mr. Madison; returned to America, at Chatham theatre 8 July 1850, retook name of Mrs. Grattan when appearing as Amelia in Wild Oats; travelled throughout the United States and the West Indies playing chief roles in standard dramas; final engagement at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 18 Sept. 1876 in Led Astray. d. 101 West Twenty-ninth st. New York 14 Dec. 1876. Era 7 Jany. 1877 p. 5; The Squib 22 Oct. 1842 p. 92.

GRATTAN, James (eld. son of right hon. Henry Grattan 1746–1820). b. 7 April 1787; cornet 20 light dragoons 9 Aug. 1810; lieut. 9 light dragoons 4 July 1811 to 18 Aug. 1814 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for co. Wicklow 1821–41; P.C. Ireland 1841. d. Tinnehinch, co. Carlow 21 Oct. 1854.

GRATTAN, John. Ensign 18 foot 8 July 1813, lieut. col. 25 May 1853 to 31 July 1854 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 1 May 1868 to death; L.G. 15 Sep. 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Brussels 29 April 1871 aged 75.