Roger Grant (died 7 April 1724) was an unqualified English

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. Grant, having lost an eye as a

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in the German emperor's service, set up as an oculist in Queen Anne's reign in Mouse Alley, Wapping. He was appointed oculist to Anne and to George I, and acquired considerable wealth. He is satirically referred to as 'putting out eyes with great success' in No. 444 of ''

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'' (30 July 1712). A sheet describing his professed cures is in the

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, and also an ''Account of a Miraculous Cure of a Young Man in Newington'', London, 1709, written to discredit his pretensions. The pamphlet states that Grant was a

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preacher, had been a cobbler, and was illiterate.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grant, Roger Year of birth missing 1724 deaths Oculists 18th-century English people