JAMES

See also:

• AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

AUGUSTUS

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)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT (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 (1827–1892)  , Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa, was born at Nairn, where his father was the parish minister, on the 11th of April 1827 . He was educated at the grammar school and Marischal College, Aberdeen, and in 1846 joined the Indian army . He saw active service in the Sikh War (1848–49), served throughout the mutiny of 1857, and was wounded in the operations for the relief of 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 sources . The expedition left Zanzibar in October 186o and reached Gondokoro, where the travellers were again in touch with civilization, in February 1863 . Speke was the leader, but Grant carried out several investigations independently and made valuable botanical collections . He acted throughout in absolute 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 life and pursuits, the habits and feelings of the natives " and the economic value of the countries traversed . In 1864 he was awarded the patron's medal of the Royal 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 .

At the

close of the war he re-tired from the army with the rank of 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 journals of various learned societies, the most notable being the " Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition " in vol. xxix. of the Transactions of the Linnaean Society .