Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Grant, Right Hon. Sir William
Grant, Right Hon. Sir William, created D.C.L. 14 June, 1820; master of the Rolls 1801-18, bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1774, attorney-general Canada, M.P. Shaftesbury 1790-6, Banffshire 1796-1812, solicitor-general to the Queen 1795, chief justice Chester 1798, solicitor-general and knighted July, 1799 (son of James Grant, of Beldornie, a small farmer), died at Dawlish, Devon, 25 May, 1832, aged 83. See Foster's Scots M.P.'s.