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William Grant (Master of the Rolls) Sir William Grant (13 October 1752 – 23 May 1832) was a Scottish people, Scottish lawyer, Member of Parliament from 1790 to 1812 and Master of the Rolls from 1801 to 1817. Biography He was born at Elchies, Moray (traditional county), Moray ...
(1752–1832), Member of the Parliament, 1790–1812; Master of the Rolls, 1801–1817 * William Grant (Northern Ireland politician) (1883–1949), Unionist M.P. for the Northern Ireland House of Commons * William Grant (seigneur) (1744–1805), Scottish-born businessman, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada *
William Grant, Lord Grant William Grant, Lord Grant, (19 June 1909 – 19 November 1972) was a Scottish advocate, a Unionist politician, and a judge. Born to the Grant's distillery family who created Glenfiddich whisky, he was one of Scotland's Great Officers of Sta ...
(1909–1972), Scottish Unionist politician and judge * William Grant, Lord Prestongrange (1701–1764), Scottish politician and judge * William M. Grant (1868–1931), politician in Saskatchewan, Canada


Sportsmen

* William St Clair Grant (1894–1918), Scottish rugby player * William Grant (footballer) (1905–1994), English footballer, played for Blackpool F.C. * Bill Grant (Australian footballer), former Australian rules footballer


Military

*Sir William Keir Grant (1772–1852), British Army general *Sir William Lowther Grant (1864–1928), Royal Navy officer * William Grant (general) (1870–1939), Australian Army colonel and temporary Brigadier General in World War I


Others

* William Grant (businessman) (1839–1923), founder of the company William Grant & Sons, which distils Scotch whisky and other spirits * William Grant (fur trader) (1743–1810), Scottish-born fur trader in Lower Canada * St. William Grant (1894–1977), Jamaican trade unionist and activist *
William Grant (New Zealand) William Grant (23 September 1843 - 5 November 1910) was a New Zealand shepherd, stock dealer and landowner. He was born in Contin, Ross-shire, Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdo ...
(1843–1910), New Zealand shepherd, stock dealer, landowner *
William Grant Naboré William Grant Naboré is an American pianist and pedagogue, born in Roanoke, Virginia where he studied with Kathleen Kelly Coxe, a pupil of Alexander Siloti. He later studied with musicologist Anne McClenney at the Hollins College in his early year ...
, American classical pianist * William F. Grant (born 1924), Canadian plant geneticist, biosystematist, educator, and environmental advocate *
William Thomas Grant William Thomas Grant (1876–1972) was the founder of a chain of U.S. mass-merchandise stores bearing his name, W. T. Grant, and an important American philanthropist. Biography Grant was born in Stevensville, Bradford County, Pennsylvani ...
(1876–1972), American philanthropist and founder of the W. T. Grant stores *
William James Grant William James Grant (1829 – 2 June 1866) was an English painter. Life He was born in Hackney, east London. He attended Benjamin Robert Haydon's lectures, and won two prizes from the Royal Society of Arts. In 1844 he became a student of t ...
(1829–1866), English painter *
William Grant (priest) William James Grant (1929–2009) was archdeacon, then dean of Tuam, in the Church of Ireland in the last quarter of the 20th century.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980/82 (London, OUP, 1982) p 393 Grant was born in 1929, and ordained in 1 ...
, Archdeacon then Dean of Tuam *
William Grant (journalist) William Grant may refer to: Politicians *Sir William Grant (Master of the Rolls) (1752–1832), Member of the Parliament, 1790–1812; Master of the Rolls, 1801–1817 * William Grant (Northern Ireland politician) (1883–1949), Unionist M.P. for ...
, see Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting * William K. Grant, American diplomat *
William Grant (physician) William Grant (died 30 December 1786) was a Scottish physician. Biography Grant was a native of Scotland, graduated M.D. at Aberdeen in 1755, and became licentiate of the London College of Physicians in 1763. He practised in the city of London ...
(died 1786), Scottish physician


See also

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Will Grant Wilfred L. Grant (born March 7, 1954) is a former American football center in the National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks. University of Kentucky Will Grant played college football at the University of Kentuck ...
(born 1954), American football player * Bill Grant (disambiguation) * Mount William Grant, a mountain in New Zealand * {{hndis, Grant, William