Alexander Grant
1826–84
Scottish university principal. BA, Oxford (Balliol), 1849; fellow, Oriel, 1849–60. Examiner of candidates for the Indian Civil Service from 1855. Travelled to Madras in 1859. Professor of history and political economy, Elphinstone Institution, from 1860; vice-chancellor, University of Bombay, 1863–8. Principal, University of Edinburgh, 1868–84. Succeeded to the baronetcy in 1856.
Sources
Alum. Oxon.
ODNB.
Bibliography
Alum. Oxon.: Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1886: … with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the university. Alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated by Joseph Foster. 8 vols. London and Oxford: Parker & Co. 1887–91.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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