Career
He later started studying Theology, attending school in Truro, Nova Scotia, graduating in 1859, and also in Princeton, New Jersey, until moving to Trinidad and Tobago in 1870. There, he started teaching at the government-funded Sabbath School on Cicero Street, teaching the local Indians while he himself also learned Hindi. He also founded Naparima College in 1894, the first secondary school on the island.
Doctor Grant also helped found Hillview College, in his honour one of the school"s four houses is named after him, Grant House, with its colour being blue. a picture of him can be found hanging in the Administration building.