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[..linted in |s:i7 for Lord ( hc-t<-i held, and contain 

 in-4 no less than forty MX portraits; the 'Melton 

 Bant,' executed for the Duke of Wellington; and 

 i In- CottoHinortt,' for Sir H. Sutton, are the best 

 kiiosvn in tliis class. Ainmix his other paintings 

 IH:I\ l>e mentioned the equestrian portraits of tin- 

 1,'ueen ami Prince ( 'onsort for Christ's Hosjiital; the 

 picture of the beautiful Marchioness of \\ aterford ; 

 anil those of Louis Paliiierston, Russell, Gough, 

 M.u-aiilav, Hardinge, &c. In 1842 Grant waH 

 elected Associate, ami in 1851 Academician. In 

 istiii In- I.ecame President of the Royal Academy 

 ami was knighted. In 1870 Oxford conferred upon 

 him the degree of D.C.L. He died on 5th October 

 1878. 



(rant. JAMKS, of Corrimony, in Inverness- 

 shire, a cadet of the Grante of Grant, born in 1743, 

 lied in 1835, was author of Essays on the Origin of 

 Society (1785) and Thoughts on the Origin and 

 Descent of the Gael (1814). 



(rant* JAMES, military novelist, was born in 

 Edinburgh, 1st August 1822, and in 1832 sailed 

 with his father, an army officer, for Newfound- 

 land. Home again, in 1839 he was gazetted to 

 an ensigncy in the 62d Foot, but within a few 

 years resigned his commission, and turned to litera- 

 ture. Having already contributed copiously to the 

 / ' / ted Service Magazine and the Dublin University 

 M'i'luzine, he in 1846 published his first book, The 

 Romance of War. Since then he supplied his 

 legion of readers with a long and close series of 

 novels and histories, illustrative mainly of war, and, 

 more particularly the achievements of Scottish 

 arms abroad. Among his many works may be 

 mentioned Adventures of an Aide-de-Camp ; Adven- 

 tures of Hob Roy ; Frank Hilton, or the Queen's 

 Own ; Bothwell, or the Dark Days of Queen Alary ; 

 The Yellow Frigate; Harry Ogiluie; and Old and 

 .\< n- l-'.ilinlnirifli. Most of his works have reappeared 

 in German and Danish, as also a few in French. 

 In 1875 Cardinal Manning received him into the 

 Roman communion. He died in London, 5th May 

 1887. 



Grant, COLONEL JAMES AUGUSTUS, C.B., 

 F. It. S. , was a son of the Rev. James Grant of Nairn, 

 where he was born in 1827. Having been educated 

 at the grammar-school and Marischal College, Aber- 

 deen, he was in 1846 appointed to the Indian army. 

 His services at the battle of Gujerat, under Lord 

 Gough, gained him the medal and two clasps, and 

 liis further services in India, in the course or which 

 he was wounded, were honoured by the Mutiny 

 medal and clasp for relief of Lucknow. With 

 Captain Speke he explored (1860-63) the sources 

 of the Nile. He also received the medal for ser- 

 vices in the Abyssinian Expedition of 1868. Among 

 his publications are A Walk Across Africa; 'Sum- 

 mary of the Speke and Grant Expedition," in the 

 .luiir. Roy. Geog. Soc. (1872); Botany of the Speke 

 mill (frant Expedition; and K/uirtoum as I saw It 

 in 1863. A gold medallist of the Roval Geographi- 

 cal Society, he died 10th February 1892. 



<>ranr. Siu JAMES HOPE, general, brother to 

 Sir I'Yancis, was l>oni at Kilgraston, Perthshire, 

 2-2<\ July 1808. He first saw service in the Chinese 

 war of 1842, and next distinguished himself at 

 Sobraon, Chillianwalla, and Gujerat in the two 

 Sikli wars. During the operations of the Indian 

 Mutiny Grant, who had risen to the rank of 

 lieutenant-colonel, took a leading part, assisting in 

 the recapture of Delhi (20th September), in the 

 relief of Cawnpore, and in the retaking of Luck- 

 now, and he commanded the force which effected 

 the final pacification of India. In 1859 he con- 

 ducted the war against China, defeating the enemy 

 three times under the walls of Pekin, assaulting 

 the Taku forts, and finally capturing the capital of 



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the empire, for which work he wax created G.C.B. 

 Atiir commanding the army of Madras from 1861 

 to 1865, he returned to England, and wax made 

 general in 1872. He died in London, Ttli .March 

 1875. From his journals appealed ///<<,//W* in (/,> 

 Sepoy War of 1857-68 (1883) and Incidents in ih? 

 China War of 18W (1875), edited by Col. H. Knolly, 

 who al.-o published a Lite of him (2 vols. 1894). 



(rant, Mits, of Carron, author of the popular 



song, ' Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch,' was lxrn near 

 Aberlour, Banffshire, in 1745. She was twice 

 married first to her cousin, Captain .lames Grant 

 of Carron, in Strathspey ; ana afterwards to Dr 

 Murray, a physician in Bath. She died in 1814. 



Grant, ULYSSES SIMPSON, a distinguished gen- 

 eral, commander of the Union armies, and the eigh- 

 teenth president of the United 

 States, was born at Point Pleas- 

 ant, Ohio, April 27, 1822. He 

 was of Scottish ancestry, but his family had been 

 American in all its branches for eight generations. 

 Ulysses was the eldest of six children born to Jesse 

 R. Grant and his wife Hannah Simpson, and 

 assisted his father on the farm in summer, attend- 

 ing the village school during the winter. In the 

 spring of 1839 he was appointed to a cadetship 

 in the United States Military Academy, and gradu- 

 ated in 1843. He was commissioned brevet second- 

 lieutenant, and assigned to duty at Jefferson Bar- 

 racks, Missouri. In May 1844 he accompanied his 

 regiment, the Fourth Infantry, to Louisiana, and 

 in September 1845 he was commissioned second- 

 lieutenant, and joined the anny of occupation 

 under General Zachary Taylor. Grant participated 

 in the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca ae la Palma, 

 and was also present at the capture of Monterey. 

 Later the Fourth Infantry embarked for Vera Cruz, 

 to join the army of General Winfield Scott, and 

 Grant took part in all the battles of Scott's success- 

 ful campaign and in the final capture of the city of 

 Mexico. In the summer of 1848 his regiment 

 returned to the United States, when he obtained 

 leave of absence, and in August of that year was 

 married to Julia B. Dent, of St Louis, by whom he 

 had three sons and a daughter, the eldest of whom, 

 Colonel Frederick D. Grant, was in April 1889 

 appointed American Minister to Austria. Lieu- 

 tenant Grant served at various posts ; was in 1853 

 appointed to a captaincy ; and in the following year 

 resigned his commission, and settled on a farm near 

 St Louis, Missouri. 



When the war began in April 1861 Grant was 

 residing in Galena, Illinois ; he immediately offered 

 his services to the government, and in June he was 

 appointed colonel of the 21st Regiment of Illinois 

 Infantry, with which he was sent to Missouri. In 

 August he was advanced to brigadier-general of 

 volunteers, and assigned to the command of a dis- 

 trict, and in November he fought the battle of Bel- 

 mont. In February 1862 he captured Fort Henry, 

 and ten days later Fort Donelson, with 14,623 

 prisoners, for which victories he was made major- 

 general of volunteers. In April Grant fought a 

 two days' battle at Shiloh, amongst the severest 

 of the war, in which General A. S. Johnston, 

 commanding the Confederate army, was killed. 

 After various unsuccessful movements against 

 Vicksburg, which commenced in the November 

 of 1862, Grant crossed the Mississippi, April 30, 

 1863, defeated the enemy at Port Gibson and at 

 Champion Hill, and drove them behind their 

 entrenchments at Vicksburg, to which place he 

 laid siege. After many assaults, the stronghold 

 surrendered conditionally on July 4, 1863, with 

 31,600 prisoners and 172 cannon, and the Missis- 

 sippi was opened from its source to its mouth. 

 In October Grant was ordered to Chattanooga, 



