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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)
- 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, See also:ANNE (1755-1838) , Scottish writer, generally known as Mrs Grant of Laggan, was See also:horn in See also:Glasgow, on the 21st of See also:February 1755. Her childhood was spent in See also:America, her See also:father, See also:Duncan MacVicar, being an See also:army officer on service there. In 1768 the See also:family returned to See also:Scotland, and in 1779 Anne married See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Grant, an army See also:chaplain, who was also See also:minister of the See also:parish of Laggan, near Fort See also:Augustus, See also:Inverness, where her father was barrack-See also:master. On her See also:husband's See also:death in 18o1 she was See also:left with a large family and a small income. In 1802 she published by subscription a See also:volume of See also:Original Poems, with some See also:Translations from the Gaelic, which was favourably received. In .18o6 her Letters from the Mountains, with their spirited description of Highland scenery and legends, awakened much See also:interest. Her other See also:works are See also:Memoirs of an See also:American See also:Lady, with Sketches of See also:Manners and Scenery in America as they existed previous to the Revolution (18o8), containing reminiscences of her childhood; Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland (1811) ; and Eighteen See also:Hundred and Thirteen, a Poem (1814). In 1810 she went to live in See also:Edinburgh. For the last twelve years of her See also:life she received a See also:pension from See also:government. She died on the 7th of See also:November 1838.
See Memoir and See also:Correspondence of Mrs Grant of Laggan, edited by her son J. P. Grant (3 vols., 1844).
End of Article: GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
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