JAMES

See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• JAMES GRANT (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

GRANT (1822–1887)  , British novelist, was born in Edinburgh on the 1st of August 1822 . His father, John Grant, was a captain in the 92nd Gordon Highlanders and had served through the Peninsular War . For several years James Grant was in Newfoundland with his father, but in 1839 he returned to England, and entered the 62nd Foot as an ensign . In 1843 he resigned his commission and devoted himself to writing, first magazinearticles, but soon a profusion of novels, full of vivacity and incident, and dealing mainly with military scenes and characters . His best stories, perhaps, were The Romance of War (his first, 1845), Bothwell (1851), Frank Hilton; or, The Queen's Own (1855), The Phantom Regiment and Harry Ogilvie (1856), Lucy Arden (1858), The White Cockade (1867), Only an Ensign (1871), Shall I Win Her ? (1874), Playing with Fire (1887) . Grant also wrote British Battles on Land and Sea (1873–1875) and valuable books on Scottish history . Permanent value attaches to his great work, in three volumes, on Old and New Edinburgh (188o) . He was the founder and energetic promoter of the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights . In 1875 he became a Roman Catholic . He died on the 5th of May 1887 .