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in classics in 1828, and graduated M. A, in 1831. Since 1845 Sir 

 Stephen Grlynne occupied tlie position of Lord-Lieutenant of 

 Flintshire, which county he represented in Parliament from 1831 

 to 1811, and again from May 1842 till 1847. The deceased 

 baronet was never married, and, as there are no collateral male 

 heirs, the baronetcy (which was created in 1661) becomes 

 extinct. His only brother, the Eev. Henry Glynne, rector of 

 Hawardeu, died in 1872, leaving only two daughters. His eldest 

 sister (Catherine) is the wife of the Eight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, 

 M.P., and his younger sister (Mary) was the late Lady Lyttleton 

 who died in 1867. The first baronet of this ancient Welsh family 

 was the son of Sir John Glynne, Kut., who was Lord Chief Justice 

 under Oliver Cromwell, but was subsequently knighted by King 

 Charles II. after the restoration. Sir Stephen Glynne was elected 

 a Fellow on the 7th of December, 1830. 



Egbert Edmond Grant was the seventh son of Alexander 

 Grant, Esq.", Writer to the ' Signet.' He was born in his father's 

 bouse in Argyle Square, Edinburgh, on the 11th of November, 

 1793. His mother's maiden name was Jane Edmond. It ap- 

 pears, from a memorandum in Dr. Grant's handwriting, that he 

 was sent from home to be nursed, and saw little of either of his 

 parents during his infancy and childhood. He had eight brothers 

 and three sisters, all of whom died before him ; and as none of 

 them left any children. Dr. Grant was the last survivor of his 

 family. 



When about ten years old he was placed at the High School of 

 Edinburgh, where he continued for five years. In 1808 his father 

 died ; and in November of that year Dr. Grant became a student 

 in the University of Edinburgh. In the following November he 

 entered on his curriculum of medical study, and he also studied 

 Natural History under Professor Jameson, and attended the lec- 

 tures of some of the extra-academical teachers. After completing 

 his course of medical study, he in 1814 took his degree of Doctor 

 of Medicine, and published his inaugural dissertation ' De San- 

 guinis Circuitu.' 



In the mean time he had obtained (in May 1814) the Diploma 

 of the College of Surgeons, and in November of the same year he 

 was elected one of the Presidents of the Medical Society of 

 Edinburgh. 



Eather inore than a year after taking his degree Dr. Grant went 



