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* GRANT. r3-2 GRANT. (q.v.), which, not being of a tangible character, were not capable of being transferred liy the common law mode of livery of seisin, by which corporeal interests were conve3'ed. The former were accordingly said to 'lie in grant,' whereas the latter lay 'in livery.' (See Feoffment; Liv- EEY OF Selsin.) In order to complete the convey- ance of a reversion or remainder by grant, it was necessary Ihat the tenant of the particiilar estate sliould acknowledge the grantee by attornment ( q.v. ). A grajit was always effected by a deed. The deed of grant was the simplest of all deeds. ^'hen conveyance by liverj' of seisin was abol- ished, the grant was generally substituted as the mode of creating or conveying real estate, whether corporeal or incorporeal. This tendency to the substitution of a sim])le deed for the more ceremonious forms of conveyance of the older law was favored by the provision of the Statute of Frauds, which required all conveyances of land to be in writing. At the present time the deed of grant is generall.y authorized by statute in England and the United States, though it is usually provided that deeds of bargain and sale and of lease and release may also be used. See Coxveyance: Deed. GRANT, Sir Alexander (1826-84). An Eng- lish writer and principal of Edinburgh Uni- versity, eighth Baronet of Dalvey. His father had married while in the West Indies, and Sir Alexander was born in New York, but was sent to England for his education. He distinguished himself at Harrow and O.xford, and studied for the bar, but began literary work with a text-book. The Ethics nf Aristotle (1857). Two years later he married the daughter of Professor Ferrier, of Saint Andrews, and went to India, where he made his mark as an educator, eventually becoming vice-chancellor of Bombay University and direct- or of public instruction for that presidency. In 1868 he returned to Britain and was elected prin- cipal of the University of Edinburgh, which at once felt the influence of his energetic public spirit. His largest work is The Story of the University/ of Edinhiirfih During Its First Three Hundred Years (1884), but a number of his lectures have been published, and he wrote articles upon educational subjects for the lead- ing reviews. GRANT, Anne (MacVicar), best known as 'Mrs. Grant of Laggan' (1755-1838). A Scotch writer. She was bom in Glasgow, the daughter of Duncan JlacVicar, a British officer, who was stationed in 1758 at Albany', N. Y. There she became" a favorite with the Schuylers and other prominent families, and remained until 1765, when her father settled on a grant of land in what is now' Vermont. Three years later they returned to Scotland, secure as they sup- posed in the possession of the American estate. This, however, was confiscated during the Revo- lution, and the family was dependent upon the fathers pay as barrack-master at Fort Augustus. Anne married the Rev. James Grant, chaplain of the fort, and subsequently mintster of Laggan. Left a widow in destitute circumstances, she pub- lished, by subscription, a volume of Poems (180.3). which was well received, and another work entitled Letters from the Mountains {SOG) . ■which was exceedingly popular. In the United States she is best known by her Memoirs of an American Lady, with Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America (1808), which was repub- lished with a memoir by J. G. Wilson in 1876. It gives an interesting account of manners and customs in northern New York before the Revolu- tion. She also published Essays on the Supersti- tions of the Uighlanders of Scotland (1814). In 1826 Scott, JlacKenzie, and other friends pro- cured for her a pension of £100 a year. Consult Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Jjar/gan. edited bv her son, J. P. Grant (.3d ed., Edinburgh, 1853)". GRANT, ASAHEL (1807-44). An American foreign missionary. He was born at Marshall, N. Y., August 17, 1807 ; studied medicine at Pittsfield, Slass., and practiced in Utiea, N. Y. In 1835 he went as missionary of the American Board to Persia, settled at Urumiah, and did much work among the Nestoriaus there and else- where. He died in Mosul, Turkey, April 24, 1844. For his life, consult Lathrop (New York, 1847), and Laurie, Grant and the Mountain Hestoriuns (Boston, 1853). GRANT, Charles, Lord Glenelg (1778- 1866). A British politician. He was the son of Charles Grant, a director of the East India Com- pany, and was born at Kidderpore in Bengal, October 26, 1778. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and in 1807 was admitted to the bar, but never practiced. In 1811 he was elected to Parliament from Inverness and re- mained a member of the House of Commons till 1835, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Glenelg. He was one of the lords of the treasury from 1813 to 1810, becoming, in the latter year. Secretary for Ireland. From 1823 to 1827 Grant was vice-president of the Board of Trade, and from 1830 to 1834 president of the board of control of the East India Company. In 1835 he was made Colonial Secretary, and held this office until 1839, displaying, however, such remarkable inefficiency as to arouse the opposition of even his fellow IMinisters, whose insistence led to his resignation. The disturbed condition of Cana- dian politics during this period, culminating in the Rebellion of 1837 (see Canada), was attrib- uted largely to his vacillating policy. Grant was, nevertheless, an accomplished speaker, and in the management of Irish and Indian affairs had shown much ability. He died at Cannes, France, April 23, 1866. GRANT, DiGBT. A society villain, in Albery's The Two Roses; a role often successfullj' played by Henry Irving. GRANT, Sir Francis (1803-78). A Scotch portrait painter. He was born in Edinburgh, January 18, 1803, and received his cducaticm at the Harrow School, with the intention of enter- ing the Ijar. In 1828 he relinquished his profes- sion and began painting. His only art instruc- tion consisted of twelve drawing lessons from the human figure, his chief knowledge having been gained by copying the works of Velazquez and other great masters. He became a fashionable portrait painter of his day. painting Queen Vic- toria, the Prince Consort, and many other well- known personages. His portraits are character- ized by elegance and refinement rather than by individuality and character. In 1851 he was elected member of the Royal Academy; in 1866, president, soon after receiving the honor of knightliood. He died at Melton Mowbray, Octo- ber'^5, 1878.