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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:SIR See also:ALEXANDER , 8th See also:Bart. (1826-1884), See also:British See also:scholar and educationalist, was See also:born in New See also:York on the 13th of See also:September 1826. After a childhood spent in the See also:West Indies, he was educated at See also:Harrow and See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. He entered Oxford as scholar of Balliol, and subsequently held a fellowship at See also:Oriel from 1849 to 186o. He made a See also:special study of the Aristotelian See also:philosophy, and in 1857 published an edition of the See also:Ethics (4th ed. 1885) which became a See also:standard See also:text-See also:book at Oxford. In 1855 he was one of the examiners for the See also:Indian See also:Civil Service, and in 1856 a public examiner in See also:classics at Oxford. In the latter See also:year he succeeded to the baronetcy. In 1859 he went to See also:Madras with Sir See also:Charles Trevelyan, and was appointed inspector of See also:schools; the next year he removed to Bombay, to fill the See also:post of See also:Professor of See also:History and See also:Political See also:Economy in the See also:Elphinstone See also:College. Of this he became See also:Principal in 1862; and, a year later, See also:vice-See also: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 See also:Presidency. In 1868 he was appointed a member of the Legislative See also:Council. In the same year, upon the See also:death of Sir See also:David See also:Brewster, he was appointed Principal of See also:Edinburgh
University, which had conferred an honorary LL.D. degree upon him in 1865. From that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time till his death (which occurred in
Edinburgh on the 3oth of See also: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 See also:enthusiasm. In that year he published The See also:Story of the University of Edinburgh during its First Three See also:Hundred Years. He was created Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford in 188o, and an honorary See also:fellow of Oriel College in 1882.
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