Background
Born at Loyal Hill (in the area of Summerville) in Hampshire County, Nova Scotia, the son of John Nutting and Margaret (MacCallum) Grant, Grant was educated in Newport, Nova Scotia.
Businessman lieutenant governor
Born at Loyal Hill (in the area of Summerville) in Hampshire County, Nova Scotia, the son of John Nutting and Margaret (MacCallum) Grant, Grant was educated in Newport, Nova Scotia.
He commenced his business career with South. A. White & Company, in 1873. He then formed the firm Grant, Oxley & Company. Grant, Oxley & Company merged with Alfred J. Bell & Company
Limited. in 1964 and still operates today under the name of Bell & Grant Insurance.
In 1899 he was appointed as Imperial Consul of Germany in Halifax. From 1916 to 1925, he served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
He was Lieutenant Governor (Canada) at the time of the Halifax Explosion. During the 1919 visit to Nova Scotia by Edward VIII as Prince of Wales, Grant hosted the royal party at Government House (Nova Scotia).
They had five children:
Eric MacNeill Grant - born 1889;
Captain Doctor Gerald Wallace Grant, Military Cross, Bachelor of Medicine, Companies of Honour - born 1890;
Margaret Frances MacNeill Grant - born 1893 (later Mrs Arthur William Louisiana Touche Bisset);
Captain(North) John Moreau Grant, Commander of the Order of the British Empire - born 1895;
Major Grainger Stewart Grant, Military Cross - born 1897;
Vice Admiral Harold Taylor Wood Grant - born 1899;
He received honorary degrees from Acadia University (Doctor of Laws) in 1919 and from the University of King"s College (Data Control Language) in 1921.
A portrait of the Honourable MacCallum Grant by Henry Harris Brown was donated to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2006 by Grant"s granddaughter, Margaret H. Grant. The portrait was unveiled by the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, the Honourable Myra Freeman. The portrait is on loan to Government House (Nova Scotia) and can be viewed there in the ballroom.
He was a member of the firm Black Brothers Company from 1875 to 1893.