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* GRANT. 133 GEANT. There are 253 paintings recorded from 1834 till his death. The most imi)ortant arc as follows: '•Breakfast Scene at Melton" (1831-34); "His Majesty's Staghounds ou Ascot Heath" (1837), owned by the Earl of Chesterfield ; "ilelton Hunt" (183;i). owned by the Duke of Wellington; "A Shooting Part}- at Eawton Abbey," owned by the Eiirl of Liciifield; "The Cottesmore Hunt" (1848) ; "Queen Victoria Riding with Lord Mel- bourne and Others in the Windsor Park" ( 1840) ; "Lady Glenlyon" (1842) ; an equestrian portrait of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort, in Christ's Hospital, London; "Duke and Duchess of Beaufort:" "Earl RiLssell;" "Earl of Beacons- field;" "Dr. Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury;" "Marchioness of Waterford;" "Dr. Moberly, Bishop of Salisbury." In the National Portrait Gallery, London, there is a study for a portrait of Lord Macaulay. and a pen-and-ink sketch of Sir Edwin Landseer, and in the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland, a portrait of Sir Walter Scott. GRANT, Frederick Dent (1850—). An American soldier, a son of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, born in Saint Louis, Mo. As a mere child he was with his father during several battles of the Civil War. He graduated at West Point in 1871, and was assigned to the Fourth Cavaliy. He served under General vSherman in the expeditions against the Indians from 1873 to 1879j and in 1S81 resigned from the army. He vas United States Minister to Austria under President Har- rison, and police commissioner of New York from 1895 to 1897. At the beginning of the Spanish- American War he reentei-ed the anuy as colonel of the 144th New York Volunteer Infantry, and in 1898 was appointed brigadier- general United States Volunteers. During the war he served in Puerto Rico and in the Philip- pine Islands, and he was afterwards put in com- mand of the military district of San Juan and for almost two years was in command of the district of Cavite and Northern Luzon, P. I. In 1902 he was ]ilaced in command of the' Department of Texas. GRANT, George Monro (1835-1902). A Canadian author, orator, and educationist, born at Albion ilines^ N. S. He graduated at Glas- gow University (1857), entered the ministry of the Presbvterian Church, and undertook a pas- toral charge in Halifax. N. S., from 1863 to 1877. It was during this time that he wrote his first book. Ocean to Ocean (1873). In 1877 he was made doctor of divinity, and left his Halifax church to be principal of Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. Already famed as a preacher and as an advocate of the union of British America into the Dominion of Canada, he be- came a forcible and eloquent speaker upon both ecclesiastical and national politics, and used his great influence in promoting the union of the Presbyterian churches and in propagating the imperialist sentiment among the rising genera- tion. He wrote, in the same cause. Advantages of Imperuil Federation (1889). and Our Naticmal Objects and Jims (1890). Some of his lectures and sermons have been published; but they lack the personal magnetism of the man, though his Relifjions of the World in Relation to Christianity (1804) evidences his breadth of mind. GRANT, .Tames (1720-1806). A British sol- dier, born at Ballindalloch, Banffshire, Scotland. He obUiined a commission in the English Army in 1741, and participated in camj)aigns in Flan- ders (1747-48), and later in Ireland. At the outbreak of the French and Indian War he came to America as a major. He was defeated in an attempt to reconnoitre Fort Duqucsne in 1758j was made (Jovernor of East Floritla in 1700, and a year later led expeditions against the Cherokee Indians. During the Revolutionary War he liartioipatcd in the battles of Long Island, lirandywinc, and Gormantown. In 1790 he was made a general. GRANT, James (1822-87). A Scottish au- thor, born in Eilinburgh. After a six years' life in New^foundland, where his father had a military conunand, he returned to England in 1839, and in 1840 became an ensign in the Sixty-second Regiment. In 1843 he left the service, and spent several months in the office of an architect. His literary tastes soon led him to writing, and in 1845 appeared his first novel, TIic Romance of War. His industry was imflagging. and, besides his historical writings, he published more than fifty works of fiction. They liave all a military or an historical setting, and are full of color and movement. He founded and was the secretary of the Nation.al Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, and attained a reputation for wide military knowledge, which often led to consulta- tion with Government authoritie-s. His works on history include: Memoirs of the Castle of Edin- burgh (1850); Memoirs of Montrose (1858); The Cavaliers of Fortune, or British Heroes in Foreign Tl'ars (1859) ; British Battles on Land and Sea (1873); Illustrated Uistorri of India (1876); Old and New Edinburgh (1880); His- tori/ of the War in the Soudan (1885-86) ; Scot- tish Soldiers of Fortune ( 1889). His most recent novels are: Playing with Fire (1887); Love's Labor Won (1888). GRANT, Sir James Alexander ( 1830— ). A Canadian physician. He was bom in Inverness- shire, Scotland, but was brought by his parents to Canada when he was only one year old. He graduated in medicine at McGill University in 1854, began the practice of medicine at Ottawa soon afterwards, and in 1869 became consulting physician to the Governor-General, Monk, a posi- tion which he continued to hold under Lord Monk's successors. He was a prominent member of the Dominion Parliament from 1805 to 1873, and again from 1892 to 1806, and in 1872 intro- duced the original bill for the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. GRANT, James Augustus (1827-92). An African explorer, born at Nairn, in Nairnshire, Scotland. He was educated at Marischal Col- lege, Aberdeen, and in 1846 entered the army in India, where he saw active seri'ice, and was wounded during the relief of Lucknow. He met John H. Speke (q.v. ) in 1847, and the similarity of their tastes drawing them to each other, Speke cordially accepted Grant's offer to accompany him when he set out on his second African jour- ney in 1860. Speke retained undivided command of the expedition, so that to him the credit due a commander must be given; but Grant's loyalty, unselfishness, and enthusiasm contributed in large ineasure to its success, and his notes and collections proved of the greatest value. In 1868 he took part in the Abyssinian expedition, and in May of the same year retired from the army