SIR

See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

ALEXANDER

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)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• SIR ALEXANDER GRANT
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

GRANT  , 8th Bart . (1826-1884), British scholar and educationalist, was born in New York on the 13th of September 1826 . After a childhood spent in the West Indies, he was educated at Harrow and Oxford . He entered Oxford as scholar of Balliol, and subsequently held a fellowship at Oriel from 1849 to 186o . He made a special study of the Aristotelian philosophy, and in 1857 published an edition of the Ethics (4th ed . 1885) which became a standard text-book at Oxford . In 1855 he was one of the examiners for the Indian Civil Service, and in 1856 a public examiner in classics at Oxford . In the latter year he succeeded to the baronetcy . In 1859 he went to Madras with Sir Charles Trevelyan, and was appointed inspector of schools; the next year he removed to Bombay, to fill the post of Professor of History and Political Economy in the Elphinstone College . Of this he became Principal in 1862; and, a year later, vice-chancellor of Bombay University, a post he held from 1863 to 1865 and again from 1865 to 1868 . In 1865 he took upon himself also the duties of Director of Public Instruction for Bombay Presidency . In 1868 he was appointed a member of the Legislative Council .

In the same year, upon the

death of Sir David Brewster, he was appointed Principal of Edinburgh University, which had conferred an honorary LL.D. degree upon him in 1865 . From that time till his death (which occurred in Edinburgh on the 3oth of November 1884) his energies were entirely devoted to the well-being of the University . The institution of the medical school in the University was almost solely due to his initiative; and the Tercentenary Festival, celebrated in 1884, was the result of his wisely directed enthusiasm . In that year he published The Story of the University of Edinburgh during its First Three Hundred Years . He was created Hon . D.C.L. of Oxford in 188o, and an honorary fellow of Oriel College in 1882 .