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JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT (1827–1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT (1827–1892)  , Scottish explorer of eastern
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equatorial Africa, was born at
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Nairn, where his
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father was the parish minister, on the 11th of
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April 1827 . He was educated at the grammar school and Marischal College, Aberdeen, and in 1846 joined the
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Indian army . He saw active service in the
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Sikh War (1848–49), served throughout the mutiny of 1857, and was wounded in the operations for the
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relief of
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Lucknow . He returned to England in 1858, and in 186o joined J . H . Speke (q.v.) in the memorable expedition which solved the problem of the Nile
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sources . The expedition
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left
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Zanzibar in
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October 186o and reached
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Gondokoro, where the travellers were again in touch with
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civilization, in
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February 1863 . Speke was the leader, but Grant carried out several investigations independently and made valuable botanical collections . He acted throughout in absolute
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loyalty to his comrade . In 1864 he published, as supplementary to Speke's account of their journey, A Walk across Africa, in which he dealt particularly with " the ordinary
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life and pursuits, the habits and feelings of the natives " and the economic value of the countries traversed . In 1864 he was awarded the
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patron's medal of the Royal
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Geographical Society, and in 1866 given the Companionship of the Bath in recognition of his services in the expedition . He served in the intelligence department of the Abyssinian expedition of 1868; for this he was made C.S.I. and received the Abyssinian medal .

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close of the war he re-tired from the army with the rank of
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lieutenant-colonel . He had married in 1865, and he now settled down at Nairn, where he died on the 11th of February 1892 . He made contributions to the
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journals of various learned societies, the most notable being the " Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition " in vol.
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xxix. of the Transactions of the Linnaean Society .

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