GRANGER, JAMES (1723-1776).—­Biographer, was at Oxf. and, entering the Church, became Vicar of Shiplake, Oxon.  He pub. a Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution (1769).  He insisted on the importance of collecting engravings of portraits and himself gathered 14,000, and gave a great impulse to the practice of making such collections.

GRANT, MRS. ANNE (M’VICAR) (1755-1838).—­Was b. in Glasgow, and in 1779 m. the Rev. James Grant, minister of Laggan, Inverness-shire.  She pub. in 1802 a vol. of poems.  She also wrote Letters from the Mountains, and Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlands.  After 1810 she lived in Edin., where she was the friend of Sir W. Scott and other eminent men, through whose influence a pension of L100 was bestowed upon her.

GRANT, JAMES (1822-1887).—­Novelist, was the s. of an officer in the army, in which he himself served for a short time.  He wrote upwards of 50 novels in a brisk, breezy style, of which the best known are perhaps The Romance of War (1845), Adventures of an Aide-de-Camp, Frank Hilton, Bothwell, Harry Ogilvie, and The Yellow Frigate.  He also wrote biographies of Kirkcaldy of Grange, Montrose, and others which, however, are not always trustworthy from an historical point of view.

GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827-1892).—­Traveller, was an officer in the army, and was sent by the Royal Geographical Society along with Captain JOHN HANNING SPEKE (1827-1864), to search for the equatorial lakes of Africa.  Grant wrote A Walk across Africa, The Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition, and Khartoum as I saw it in 1863.  Speke wrote Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863), and What led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1864).

GRATTAN, THOMAS COLLEY (1792-1864).—­Miscellaneous writer, b. in Dublin, and ed. for the law, but did not practise.  He wrote a few novels, including The Heiress of Bruges (4 vols., 1830); but his best work was Highways and Byways, a description of his Continental wanderings, of which he pub. three series.  He also wrote a history of the Netherlands and books on America.  He was for some time British Consul at Boston, U.S.

GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861).—­Poet, s. of a hand-loom weaver at Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire.  He gave early promise at school, was destined for the service of the Church, and was for 4 years at Glasgow Univ. while he maintained himself by teaching.  His first poems appeared in the Glasgow Citizen.  In 1860, however, he went with his friend Robert Buchanan to London, where he soon fell into consumption.  He was befriended by Mr. Monckton Milnes, afterwards Lord Houghton, but after a sojourn in the South of England, returned home to die.  His chief poem, The Luggie (the river of his birthplace) contains much beautiful description; but his genius reached its highest expression in a series of 30 sonnets written in full view of an early death and blighted hopes, and bearing the title, In the Shadow.  They breathe a spirit of the deepest melancholy unrelieved by hope.