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Grant was youngest son of Thomas Grant of Portsea, Portsmouth. He was born 31 January 1806, was sent to Winchester College in 1815, and on 17 February 1825 matriculated as a scholar of New College, Oxford, becoming fellow in 1827.
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Grant was youngest son of Thomas Grant of Portsea, Portsmouth. He was born 31 January 1806, was sent to Winchester College in 1815, and on 17 February 1825 matriculated as a scholar of New College, Oxford, becoming fellow in 1827.
Winchester College; New College.
He proceeded Bachelor of Civil Law in 1832, and Doctorate.C.L. 1842. In 1834 he was ordained, and two years later became curate of Chelmsford. From 1838 to 1862 he was vicar of Romford, Essex, and from 1862 to 1877 vicar of Aylesford, Kent.
In 1843 he was Bampton lecturer at Oxford University, and delivered a course entitled The Past and Prospective Extension of the Gospel by Missions to the Heathen, London, 1844.
These lectures created a powerful impression, and their publication marks an epoch in the history of mission work. In 1846 Grant was made archdeacon of Saint Albans, and the archdeaconry of Rochester was annexed to it in 1863.
In 1852 and 1861 he was select preacher at Oxford. In 1860 he became canon of Rochester Cathedral, and in 1877 chaplain to the bishop of Saint Albans.
In 1882 he resigned his archdeaconry of Rochester, but retained that of Saint Albans and his canonry till his death, which took place at Ramsgate 25 November
1883. Grant was remarkable for his administrative capacity, and was a good preacher.
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As a member of this college Grant did not go out in the university class lists, but he obtained the chancellor"s Latin essay in 1830, and the Ellerton theological prize essay in 1832.