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Patrick Grant (academic)
Patrick Grant may refer to: *Patrick Grant (moderator) (1706–1787), Scottish minister and moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland *Patrick Grant (Indian Army officer) (1804–1895), Indian Army officer and colonial administrator *Patrick Grant (Australian politician), New South Wales politician and newspaperman * Patrick Grant (composer) (born 1963), American composer and performer *Patrick Grant (designer) (born 1972), Scottish fashion designer * Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies (1690–1754), Scottish judge * Patrick Grant (rosarian) (1860–1945), Scottish-born Australian rose breeder * Sir Patrick Grant, 14th Baronet (born 1953), Scottish baronet and businessman *Patrick Grant (American football) (1886–1927), American football player *Haras Fyre Haras Fyre (born January 5, 1953), also known professionally as Patrick Grant, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. After writing songs for Sister Sledge and Ben E. King early in his career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Grant (moderator)
Patrick Grant (1706–1787) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1778. Life He was born in 1706, and was licensed to preach (by the Presbytery of Haddington) until March 1734.Fasti Ecclesiastae Scoticana by Hew Scott In July 1735, he was ordained as minister of Cawdor near Inverness. In March 1748, he was "called" to Urray in place of the late Rev John Morison of Bragar Bragar ( gd, Bràgar, ) is a village on the west side of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, from the island's only town, Stornoway. Bragar is within the parish of Barvas, and is situated on the A858 between Carloway and Barv ..., and formally translated to this role in May 1749. He remained in this post for 38 years. In 1778, he succeeded the James Brown as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the highest position in the Scottish Church. He was succeeded in turn by James Gillespie. He died in the manse of Urray on 14 Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Grant (Indian Army Officer)
Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant, (11 September 1804 – 28 March 1895) was a senior Indian Army officer. He fought at the Battle of Maharajpore during the Gwalior Campaign, at the Battle of Mudki, the Battle of Ferozeshah and the Battle of Sobraon during the First Anglo-Sikh War and at the Battle of Chillianwala and the Battle of Gujrat during the Second Anglo-Sikh War. During the Indian Mutiny, as acting Commander-in-Chief, India, he directed the operations against the mutineers, sending forces under Henry Havelock and James Outram for the relief of Cawnpore and Lucknow. He later became Governor of Malta. Military career Born the second son of Major John Grant of the 97th Regiment of Foot and Anna Trapaud Grant, Grant joined the Bengal Native Infantry as an ensign on 16 July 1820 and was promoted to lieutenant on 11 July 1823 and to captain on 14 May 1832. He became a brigade major in Oudh in 1834 and, having raised the Hariana Light Infantry in 1836, he became second assist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Grant (Australian Politician)
Patrick Grant (1795−14 May 1855) was an English businessman who was an Australian politician and Police Magistrate. He was the proprietor of the ''Sun'', the '' True Sun''. Biography Grant was the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Grant and Jane Hannay. Politician Henry Hunt brought a libel action against Grant, the ''True Sun's'' proprietor, publisher John Bell, and printer John Ager for an article published on 18 December 1832; however, Hunt was awarded damages of one farthing. Grant, Bell and Ager were prosecuted, convicted and confined in 1834 to the King's Bench Prison for advocating tax resistance against the British government's window tax. He was later pardoned. He was a police magistrate at Maitland, in the Hunter Valley and sub editor of the ''Sydney Gazette''. In 1845 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council; this election was voided, but he was re-elected later that year and served until 1848. Grant subsequently moved to Redcastle, Scotl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Grant (composer)
Patrick Grant (born 1963) is a Detroit-born American composer living and working in New York City. His works are a synthesis of classical, popular, and world musical styles that have found place in concert halls, film, theater, dance, and visual media over three continents. Over the last three decades, his music has moved from post-punk and classically bent post-minimal styles, through Balinese-inspired gamelan and microtonality, to ambient, electronic soundscape A soundscape is the acoustic environment as perceived by humans, in context. The term was originally coined by Michael Southworth, and popularised by R. Murray Schafer. There is a varied history of the use of soundscape depending on discipline, ...s involving many layers of acoustic and electronically amplified instruments. Throughout its evolution, his music has consistently contained a "...a driving and rather harsh energy redolent of rock, as well as a clean sense of melodicism...intricate cross-rhythms rarely le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Grant (designer)
Patrick James Grant (born 1 May 1972) is a Scottish fashion designer and businessman who is director of bespoke tailors Norton & Sons of Savile Row, clothing lines E. Tautz & Sons and Community Clothing, and textile manufacturer Cookson & Clegg. Since 2013, he has been a judge on the reality series ''The Great British Sewing Bee'', which aired on BBC Two before moving to BBC One in 2020. After taking over Norton & Sons in 2005, Grant has been credited with rejuvenating the once ailing business. He relaunched E. Tautz as a ready to wear label in 2009, for which he was awarded the Menswear Designer award at the British Fashion Awards in 2010. Early life and education Grant was born in Edinburgh, and raised in the city's Morningside, Edinburgh, Morningside district. His Musselburgh-born father, James (1940–2020), managed the pop band Marmalade (band), Marmalade before becoming an accountant at RMJM and mini rugby coach. His mother, Susan, worked for the University of Edinburgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies
Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies, Sixth of Easter Elchies (1691–1754) was a Scottish judge, rising to the level of Lord of Session and Senator of the College of Justice. Life Grant was the son of Captain Grant of Easter Elchies. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh and was admitted as an advocate on 12 February 1712, and obtained a good practice. On 3 November 1732 he was raised to the bench with the title of Lord Elchies, in succession to Sir John Maxwell of Pollock; on 3 March 1737 he succeeded Walter Pringle, Lord Newhall as a lord of justiciary. He died at his home, Inch House, on the southern edge of Edinburgh, on 27 July 1754.Grant's Old and New Edinburgh vol.6 p.338 He is buried in the sealed south-west section of Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, in the area known as the Covenanter's Prison. His family lie with him. Family He married Margaret (1697–1746), daughter of Sir Robert Dickson of Inveresk, Baronet. Their children died young: Barbara (1729–17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Grant (rosarian)
Patrick Grant (1860 – 28 September 1945) was a Scottish-born Australian rose breeder. Two of his roses were world-famous at his death, though to some extent superseded since. Life Patrick Grant was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1860. He was the son of a stonemason and trained as a wheelwright. He migrated to New South Wales in 1885 and worked for 20 years as a building contractor. As a dairy farmer on virgin land at Nambucca River, Macksville on the north coast of New South Wales he developed a famous herd of Ayreshires. He and his wife Beatrice had eight children, six of whom worked as adults on their 400-acre farm.NSW death certificate 1945/015836 He thus appears as a successful small landholder, quite different from the members of the landed elite like Alister Clark and Olive Fitzhardinge who were the best known rose breeders of the time. At the end of the nineteenth century, he sat on the North Sydney council. He was president of the Primary Producers Union 1904–1934. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Patrick Grant, 14th Baronet
Sir Patrick Alexander Benedict Grant, 14th Baronet (born 5 February 1953) is a Scottish businessman. Grant is the son of Sir Duncan Grant, 13th Baronet and Joan Penelope Cope. He married Dr. Carolyn Elizabeth Highet, in 1981. He has two sons: *Duncan Archibald Ludovic Grant, Younger of Dalvey (born 19 Apr 1982) *Neil Patrick Grant (born 21 Oct 1983) He succeeded to the title of 14th Baronet Grant, of Dalvey on 25 March 1961. He was educated in 1961 at St Conleth's College, Dublin. He was educated at The Abbey School, Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire, Scotland. He graduated from Glasgow University , image = UofG Coat of Arms.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms Flag , latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis , motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita , ..., Scotland, in 1981 with a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) He was founder and managing director of Grants of Dalvey Ltd in 1988. References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Grant (American Football)
Patrick Grant II (April 30, 1886 – October 28, 1927) was an American football player. He played college football at Harvard University and was a consensus first-team selection to the 1907 College Football All-America Team. Grant was born in 1886 at Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were Robert Grant, Boston probate judge, and Amy Gordon Galt. Grant enrolled at Harvard University where he played on the Harvard Crimson football team. After the 1907 season, he was selected as a consensus first-team center on the 1907 College Football All-America Team. He graduated from Harvard in 1908. In 1912, Grant ran an aviation school at Seabreeze, Florida Seabreeze is a beachside neighborhood in Daytona Beach, Florida, which existed as an independent city from May 24, 1901 until January 1, 1926, when it merged with Daytona and Daytona Beach to become one consolidated city. Seabreeze has been memor .... While in Florida, he became engaged to Marie S. Disston. The two were married in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
